Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

William Hjortsberg. Counterpoint LLC, $15 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-59376-021-2

William Hjortsberg's Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg reprints two early works, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1972), that show how the author of Fallen Angel (the basis for the film Angel Heart) anticipated later trends in virtual and punk fiction. Two uncollected stories round out the volume.

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