@booklet {8779, title = {Moderan}, year = {1971}, note = {

Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, 2018, with the addition of eleven stories that did not appear in the first addition, three rpt. and eight published for the first time and with a \“Foreword\” by Jeff VanderMeer (ix-xx). Parts were originally published as \“A Little Girl\’s Xmas in Modernia.\”\ Coastlines, no. 10 (3.3) (Autumn 1958): 31-35. rpt. as \“A Little Girl\’s Christmas in Modernia.\”\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 18.1 (104) (January 1960): 102-07; rpt. in\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction British Edition\ 2.2 (January 1961): 2-7 (Avon 166-72/NYRB 179-85); \“Was She Horrid?\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 8.12 (December 1959): 120-24 (Avon 142-46/NYRB 153-57); \“The Flesh-Man from Far Wide.\”\ Amazing Stories\ 33.11 (November 1959): 134-38; rpt. in\ The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 566-68 with an editors\’ note on 555-56 (Avon 172-76/NYRB 186-90); \“A Complete Father.\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 9.1 (January 1960): 104-09 (Avon 137-42/NYRB 147-52); \“Strange Shape in the Stronghold.\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 9.3 (March 1960): 50-55 (Avon 102-08/NYRB 108-13); \“Remembering.\”\ Amazing Science Fiction Stories\ 34.4 (April 1960): 100-03 (Avon 162-66/NYRB 175-78); \“Penance Day in Moderan.\”\ Amazing Science Fiction Stories\ 34.7 (July 1960): 61-65 (Avon 98-102/NYRB 103-07); \“Getting Regular.\”\ Amazing Science Fiction Stories\ 34.8 (August 1960): 112-18 (Avon 108-14/NYRB 114-21); \“A Husband\’s Share.\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 9.10 (October 1960): 117-20 (Avon 133-37/NYRB 143-46); \“The Warning.\”\ Amazing Stories\ 34.11 (November 1960): 67-71 (Avon 189-94/NYRB 204-09); \“The Final Decision.\”\ Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories\ 35.2 (February 1961): 100-07; rpt. in\ Thrilling Science Fiction\ (October 1972): 124-31 (Avon 220-27/NYRB 237-45); \“Has Anyone Seen This Horseman.\”\ Shenandoah\ 12.2 (Winter 1961): 43-46 (Avon 194-98/NYRB 209-12); \“The One From Camelot Moderan.\”\ Descant\ (Winter 1962): 9-13 (Avon 179-84/NYRB 193-98); \“It Was Black Cat Weather.\” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers.\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 12.2 (February 1963): 100-03 (Avon 155-59/NYRB 167-70); \“Survival Packages.\” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers.\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 12.4 (April 1963): 70-74, 123 (Avon 80-85/NYRB 83-88); \“One False Step.\” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers.\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 12.5 (May 1963): 90-95 (Avon 75-80/NYRB 77-82); \“Sometimes I Get So Happy.\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 12.8 (August 1963): 103-06 (Avon 159-62/NYRB 171-74); \“2064, or Thereabouts.\” By Darryl R. Groupe [pseud.]\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 13.9 (September 1964): 122-27 (Avon 92-97/NYRB 97-102); \“Reunion.\”\ Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories\ 39.2 (February 1965): 45-49 (Avon 184-89/NYRB 199-203); \“Playmate.\”\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 14.5 (May 1965): 27-30 (Avon 130-33/NYRB 139-42); \“The Walking Talking I-Don\’t-Care Man.\”\ Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories\ 39. 6 (June 1965): 6-10 (Avon 115-20/NYRB 122-27); \“The Miracle of the Flowers.\”\ The Smith, no. 7 (2.3\&4) (October 1966): 11-23; rpt. in\ Pulpsmith\ 6.4 (Winter 1987): 108-15 (Avon 206-15/NYRB 222-31); \“Incident in Moderan.\”\ Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 295-99,\ with an \“Introduction\” (293-94) by Ellison and an \“Afterword\” (302-03) by Bunch (Avon 215-19/NYRB 232-36); \“How It Ended.\”\ Amazing\ 42.5 (January 1969): 59-64 (Avon 233-40/NYRB 253-60); \“No Cracks or Saggings.\”\ The Little Magazine\ 4.1 (Spring 1970): 44-53; rpt. without the \“s\” on Saggings in\ The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 557-62 with an editors\’ note on 555-56 (Avon without the \“s\” 25-35/NYRB without the \“s\” 21-31); and \“A Glance at the Past.\” Illus. Dan Adkins.\ Fantastic Stories of Imagination\ 20.1 (October 1970): 84-86 (Avon 147-50/NYRB 158-61). A story first published in\ Moderan, \“New Kings are Not for Laughing,\” was rpt. in\ The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 562-66 with an editors\’ note on 555-56; rpt. in the New York Review of Books ed. (38-44). Stories first reprinted in the New York Review of Books ed. are \“Two Suns for Two Kings.\”\ Worlds of If Science Fiction\ 21.4 (159) (April 1972): 113-18 (NYRB 274-78); \“When the Metal Eaters Came?\”\ Galaxy Science Fiction\ 39.10 (June/July 1979): 120-22 (NYRB 304-07); and \“A Little Girl\’s Spring Day in Moderan.\”\ Galaxy Science Fiction\ 39.11 (September/October 1979): 122-26 (NYRB 308-14). Stories first published in the New York Review of Books ed. are \“A Little at All Times\” 263-67); \“The Joke\” (268-73); \“The Good War\” (279-85); \“In the Land That Aimed at Forever\” (286-91); \“Among the Metal-and-People People (292-97); \“The Dirty War\” (298-303); \“December for Stronghold\” (315-23); and \“The Heartacher and the Warehouseman\” (324-27).\ 

}, month = {1971}, publisher = {Avon Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-nuclear war dystopia in which one man is trying to cover the Earth with plastic. Others turn themselves into cyborgs and continue to fight each other.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000)} }