Final War and Other Fantasies / In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories

FINAL WAR ... IN THE POCKET... 26 science fiction stories written by Barry N. Malzberg in the late 1960s and early 1970s under his pen-name K. M. O'Donnell. Ace Books published the two collections as one half each of an Ace Double, and they became Malzberg's first published anthologies- his announcement to the world that he had officially arrived and was ready to stir things up. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction described him as "a master of black humour." Brian Doherty in Reason magazine proclaimed Malzberg's writing to be "incisive, heartbreaking, wildly imaginative, and darkly hilarious." Andrew Fox called him "My Science Fiction Rabbi": "The tales Barry tells are tales of crushed dreams and choked ambitions, but they are also tales of exciting intellectual adventures, friendships both literary and personal, and a fellowship of minds devoted to human progress, or at least to warning humanity away from its most base impulses and foibles." And Harlan Ellison asserted that Malzberg "one of the few writers in the world whom I will gladly, happily, loudly declare is a better writer than I am." Enter the world of Barry N. Malzberg...