Nine Hundred Grandmothers, by R. A. Lafferty
Great lunatic SF short stories from the '60's
(Review posted 9 Nov 2006 01:02:07)

I don't know, maybe Phil Dick meets Robert Silverberg, or something like that. Twenty-one short stories from Galaxy and If and Fantasy and Science Fiction and like that from the 1960's (and one special new one from 1970 not previously published anywhere, by arrangement with the author). And they're pretty much all wonderful and strange, sometimes sad and people dying and stuff, mostly sort of twistedly joyful or funny or peculiar or disturbing or all of the above. There are some repeating characters in some of them; Willy McGilly and other prominent and eccentric scientists from the Institute and their odd experiments and devices, also loving baffled husbands and mysterious wives and so on, and bars and ports and spaceships and people living life to the fullest or not, and also some time machines.

If you already read lots of these up in the attic in your youth, you can read them again here in this book. If you didn't, you can read them for the first time in this book, and that would be a Good Thing for all concerned I think.