will one day command the most respectful attention of the mainstream critics—has as odd and memorable a mood piece as you’re likely to encounter in this or the next two seasons.
MANY OF THE AFTERWORDS Written by the various authors about their stories, are of great interest—sometimes as insights into what kind of person it is who writes this or that kind of story, and/or why he was moved to write it. Some contain mordant observations on larger issues; the one I like best is Henry Slesar’s, who presents us with an “atomic doom” story which was rejected all over because such stories are (said one editor) “trite” or because (said another) “people don’t want to think about that.” “To me,” writes Slesar, “the most dangerous vision of all is the one that’s rose-colored.” The Non-Dominant Elite
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