"With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama"

1972 Lupoff, Richard A[llen] (1935-2020). “With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama.” Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 676-765 with an “Introduction” (671-75) by Ellison and “Afterword” (765-67) by Lupoff. Rev. in his Space War Blues. New York: Dell, 1978. Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1980 with an “Introduction” by James R. Frenkel (v-xi). The volume also includes an “Introduction: Sailing the Dark With the Bentfin Bappa Zappa Kid” by Ellison (9-26), a “Preface: And I Awoke--Was This Some Kind of Joke” by Lupoff (27-33) and revised versions of his related stories “Our Own little Mardi Grass.” Heavy Metal (August 1977): 58-61, 96; “After the Dreamtime.” New Dimensions IV. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: New American Library, 1974), 9-39; “Sail the Tide of Mourning.” New Dimensions 5. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 214-34; and “The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Through.” Amazing Stories 50.4 (March 1977): 28-46. PSt

Dystopia with Earth’s past racial conflict now taking place in space.