Contents


Preface

Part One
Dream Factories: The Past
Fin de Cyclé
Flatfeet!
Occam’s Ducks
Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen
Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me
The Passing of the Western
The Effects of Alienation
All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past

Dream Factories: The Future
French Scenes
Heirs of the Perisphere

Interlude
A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea . . .

Part Two
Radio Pictures
Hoover’s Men
Mr. Goober’s Show
Major Spacer in the 21st Century