Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

A pair of imaginative science fiction story collections from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Spartacus, Freedom Road, and the Immigrants saga. Over his long and illustrious career, New York Timesbestselling author and prolific novelist Howard Fast proved himself a master of any literary genre, from historical fiction in Spartacus to family generational drama in his bestselling Immigrants saga. Although his output in fantasy and science fiction is relatively modest, these two short story collections, reminiscent of classic Twilight Zone episodes, demonstrate that Fast's imagination knew no boundaries. The General Zapped an Angel: Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "Wrath of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots...