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"The Big Fix"
© Infinity Science Fiction, Aug 1956
Time Out For Tomorrow, 1962

Something quite forgettable about drug-addiction in the future. Transporting emerging social issues of the Fifties into SF pulp, without much imagination.
review: 24-Jul-06 (read in 2001)

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"The Blue Lady"
© The Kid From Ozone Park, 1987

"The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn"
(as by Edward Halibut)
© Infinity Science Fiction, Feb 1956
--/ cool time sf story

"Hometown"
© Super Science Fiction, Apr 1957
--/ cool moon sf story
--/ idea award: earth theme parks

"Just Call Me Irish"
Time Out for Tomorrow, 1962
© Future, Jun 1958
--/ cool f story
--/ humour award
--/ rare find

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"Love"
© F&SF, Feb 1952
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ romance award
--/ emotion award
--/ rare find

Written with the softness rarely tasted in the pulps, this is a touching story. It leaves the end untold, just like any true romance should - the happy ending is better not described, but only implied. Then our heart will beat faster, as we imagine the bliss, or a very private happiness of our own personal kind. Here we have a couple of outcasts: differently formed planetary race, and a blind girl, who falls in love with a man of that race - when the opportunity to shed the veil from her eyes presents itself, will she accept it? Wilson does not answer this. Let every reader solve it on his own, in his heart. Other good sf background: Ore trucks, "Martian" suburbia, the Cave of Violet Light. And, of course, the cute 50s-style storytelling.
review: 10-Jan-08 (read in 2008)

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"See Me Not"
© SF Impulse, Feb 1967
--/ cool sf story
--/ humour award

"The Story Writer"
© Destinies, Apr 1979

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