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1983•249 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book

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Collection of 15 amusing, horrific, satisfying short stories, realistic speculation and potential scientific explanations or solutions about possible future events surrounding and about fat, thin, and everything in between, with a science fiction backdrop. Introduction: Fat! - essay by Isaac Asimov Sylvester's Revenge - short story by Vance Aandahl Fat Farm - short story by Orson Scott Card The Stretch - short story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Camels and Dromedaries, Clem - short story by R. A. Lafferty The Champ - short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle The Truth About Pyecraft - short story by H. G. Wells The Iron Chancellor - novelette by Robert Silverberg The Man Who Ate the World - novelette by Frederik Pohl Gladys's Gregory - short story by John Anthony West Abercrombie Station - novella by Jack Vance Shipping Clerk - short story by William Morrison The Malted Milk Monster - short story by William Tenn The Food Farm - short story by Kit Reed The Artist of Hunger - short story by Scott Russell Sanders Quitters, Inc. - short story by Stephen King

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First Published

1983

Pages

249 pages

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4.0 / 5

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1

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Crown Publishers

Language

ENG

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Published

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