Felix C. Gotschalk

"Charisma Leak" (Dome series) © New Dimensions # 6, 1976 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award Felix Gotschalk was perhaps the most brilliant - and the most under-appreciated - of the SF writers in the Seventies; his style was way ahead of its time, and belongs with the cyberpunk (or even the post-modern) school, his ideas are plentiful and original enough to stick in the mind for days, like, say, a rainbow-painted mafia coffin. His "shattered glass" prose is intense and may be tiring in large doses - in other words, he may be a classified genius, whose work still waits to be discovered by the average Amazon / Chapters crowd. Most of his stories are about geriatrics in an "old folks" future Dome, who are slowly going nuts (and yet becoming more "hip" in the process). This story is about someone who's suffering from too much charisma: a person with three in-built charismatic personalities... so he needs to cut some of these personalities off in a suicidal move, leaving behind... well, let's just say, this was an ill-considered move. review by AA: 18-Jul-06 (read in 1987) ---------------------------------------------- "Conspicuous Consumption" © F&SF, Mar 1983 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "A Day In The South Squad" (Dome series) © New Dimensions # 5, 1975 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ shock value "The Examination" © New Dimensions # 4, 1974 --/ cool sf story "A Family Winter Of 1987" © Orbit # 18, 1976 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ shock value "Home Sweet Geriatric Dome" (Dome series) © New Dimensions # 7, 1977 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award "The Man With Golden Reticulaes" © Orbit # 17, 1975 --/ cool sf story "Menage A Super-Trois" (Dome series) © F&SF, May 1987 --/ cool sf story "Nakajima Cyberspace" (Dome series) © F&SF, Jun 1988 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "Outer Concentric" © New Dimensions # 4, 1974 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "Square Pony Express" © New Dimensions # 9, 1979 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award "Vestibular Man" © F&SF, Jan 1985 --novelette : 1986 Locus /24 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "The Wishes Of Maidens" © New Voices in SF # 3, ed. G. Martin, 1980 --/ fourth place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ shock value --/ rare find ------------------------------------

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