From new Thu Jun 16 18:51:23 1994 Xref: liuida alt.books.reviews:2681 rec.arts.sf.written:51397 Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.sf.written Path: liuida!sunic!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!world!jcf From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) Subject: _In Deep_, by Damon Knight Message-ID: Summary: Brief review of an old collection Keywords: Damon Knight, short storie Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 23:22:54 GMT Lines: 19 _In Deep_, by Damon Knight Bought in a used-book store because it contained "The Handler" & "The Country of the Kind" and I thought it might contain something else I would like as much. It doesn't, but "Four in One", about a blob that digests people except for their nervous systems, which it hooks together & uses, is kind of funny. "The Country of the Kind" is a classic story about the advantages & disadvantages of being the only psychopath in the world. I had forgotten that "The Handler" had been written by Knight, but remembered the story vividly from about 10 years ago. It is a vicious satire on Jewish show-business types, nastily realistic except for a snatch of grotesque fantasy near the end. -- Joe Fineman jcf@world.std.com 239 Clinton Road (617) 731-9190 Brookline, MA 02146