HFGZ0-9 Howard Fast - The General Zapped an Angel.nfo
General Information
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Title: The General Zapped an Angel
Author: Howard Fast
Read By: Dena Pacitti
Copyright: 1970
Audiobook Copyright: 2013
Genre: Fantasy - Sci-Fi - Short Stories
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapterized - lossless (track per short story)
Source: Audible Enhanced
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 9
Total Duration: 3:30:33
Total MP3 Size: 96.49
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: iTunes
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Audible Editor Reviews
American novelist and television writer Howard Fast alleged that man
is the only creature who "refuses to grow up", and he embodies this
theory in his collection of science fiction and fantasy. Published in
1970, The General Zapped an Angel has already proven its staying power.
With a light-hearted tone, Dena Pacitti's enthusiastic performance adds
fun to this audiobook. Meanwhile, she captures the sense of wonder present
in each bizarre story, punctuating Fast's imaginative conceptions with
thoughtful pauses. Her exciting interpretation surely would have made
Fast proud.
Publisher's Summary
"The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance
to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories
of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I
have done." (Howard Fast)
Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "The Wrath
of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard
Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining
tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears
to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the
next day's Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a
mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the best-selling
authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators,
and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today.-
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