(1) After reading and loving his first novel, Autumn Angels 1, I purchased and read The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists, The Sound of Winter, An East Wind Coming, Space Clusters, and a couple of really shitty issues of Daredevil...
(2) and I purchased but did not read (yet!) Flash Gordon, Planetfall, Isaac Asimov's Robot City #4: Prodigy, Night of the Living Rerun (a Buffy novel), and possibly some other books that I've forgotten about...
(3) and I purchased a multi-disc edition of the Dune mini-series because I saw that Arthur appeared on a dvd extra segment...
(4) and every time I go into a bookstore, I look for him on the shelves of the science fiction section. I almost never seen any of his books, though.
Unfortunately, most of my ABC books were sold off in The Great Purge of the 1990s...but fortunately I have reacquired all but The Platypus of Doom...which, unfortunately, has become quite expensive on the Used Book Circuit, going for $50 to $250. So out of my reach.
Until yesterday. Well, for me. It actually happened September 24, 2018. Amazon released a Kindle version of Platypus...for $2.99. But wait, it gets better: they've also got Autumn Angels and An East Wind Coming up for the same price. (For some reason they've tried to make it look like these books are in a series, but that's just a marketing ploy. The only relationship between these three books is that they're all written by Arthur Byron Cover.
Got mine. You come too? Pretty sure you can't do a better job of spending $9.
1 Which I became aware of when it was published (in 1975) because it was the second book published in The Harlan Ellison Discovery Series. My love for Harlan drove me to acquire everything he touched. I guess the fact that this series was launched (and lasted for four years / four books) indicates that I was not alone in following this passion.
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