Doomsday and Other Tours: Nine Stories
(By Michael Andre-Driussi)
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"The Science Fiction Encyclopedia" says of Michael Andre-Driussi's fiction: "his parodies of what might be called pulp Scientific Romance idioms are exact and arousing."
Michael Andre-Driussi has seen 32 of his stories published to date, but the nine gathered here were the hardest to find as each lacked an enduring online presence.
*"White Japan" tells of an American tourist having visions in the Land of the Rising Sun.
*"The Ragnarockenroll Overture" gives the strange history of a mutated Asia. Ann Vandermeer reprinted it in her magazine "The Silver Web."
*"Mad Dogs Raid Mars" shows a daring commando strike against a cyber-theocracy on the Red Planet.
*"The Slushpile Surfer" paddles out to catch the next wave.
*"Doomsday Tours" has a zeppelin full of tourists visiting historical sad spots across a Europe that is in the process of buckling after the withdrawal of American forces. (Originally published as a cover story in 1996, the background setting seems disturbingly current in 2016.)
*"Tex of the Dobermans" gives the weird history of a feral boy in a mutated California. (This is the story "The Science Fiction Encyclopedia" was referencing by name immediately prior to the quote above.)
*"Aliens with Candy" is a sad little tale.
*"Mentally Gifted Mutants" tells about a government program to identify and train psionic children.
*"It's a Long Road to the Sky Train" is about a woman who goes on a big trip across a strange landscape. Lois Tilton called it "An entertaining, if gruesome, read, with the imaginative characters that populate the absurdly dystopian setting, and of course Marika [the heroine]" in "Locus Online Reviews," February 2015.
These stories amount to 37,000 words of content, which is the size of a long novella, or just short of a novel (at 40,000 words).”
