Pilot Light. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Subterranean Press, Burton, 2007
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- Hardcover
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Burton: Subterranean Press:, 2007. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 68 pp. Cover artwork by: Gahan Wilson A short story in a very small trim size illustrated by Gahan Wilson. Originally published at $20.00. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- Pilot Light
- Author
- Ashbless, William (Tim Powers and James Blaylock)
- Publisher
- Subterranean Press, Burton
- Publication year
- 2007
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1596061413
- ISBN 13
- 9781596061415
- Illustrator
- Gahan Wilson
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fantasy
Those two madmen, Powers and Blaylock are back, with a recently unearthed and touched up short story thought lost to the ages. "Pilot Light" is vintage William Ashbless, complex to the point of incoherence, with a good eighteen footnotes added by the poet refuting and clarifying the changes made by Powers and Blaylock to his sacred words. Also included in this small form hardcover chapbook are an introduction by Powers and an afterword by Blaylock.
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Reviews
SF vets Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock present a lost short story by their fictional poet, William Ashbless, with Powers providing a pseudo-scholarly introduction and Blaylock an afterword. Ashbless himself gets the last word in a postscript. Humorous annotations often occupy more of the page than the actual text of the fairly cryptic story, which alternates between narrator Sikorski's recollections of childhood and a failed romance in the past and his current encounter with the enigmatic Colonel Wick. This slight, entertaining diversion is enhanced by Gahan Wilson's illustrations, particularly one of a sturgeon.
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