The Eye of Argon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809562619)

This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.

Author: Jim Theis
ISBN-10: 0809562618
ISBN-13: 9780809562619
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.59w x 0.21d