Running Wild. Unfettered Stories of Imagination

Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Joseph Green offers startling revelations, surprising twists, and unexpected ends in this, the second book in the eclectic four-volume short story collection, Unfettered Stories of Imagination, that ranges far and wide along the spectrum of high imagination. A newly-married couple on a camping trip awaken to an eerie dawn, one of them inexplicably blinded overnight… A detective on an Earth-orbiting factory investigates a dangerous employee counting on a very exceptional pay day… On a faraway planet where Earth colonists are barely surviving, two rivals for the same woman join forces to rescue her from ravening savages… On the dark side of the moon, an astronomer leaves footprints on the perfect mirror of the most powerful and expensive telescope ever built… Can an artificial intelligence in an occupied body know love? Feel fear, hate, dread? And what if the body occupied was that of your beloved son?… An awkward young genius offers the key to a new Renaissance—if he lives long enough… All one young woman wants is a baby—the very best baby, a baby that’s really just out of this world… A spaceship crew longing for shore leave gets more than they bargained for on a decidedly peculiar planet… CONTENTS Introduction / Joseph Green 1. To See the Stars That Blind (1977) 2. Three-Tour Man (1962) 3. The Fourth Generation (1962) 4. At the Court of the Chrysoprase King (1983) 5. Walk Barefoot on the Glass (1974) 6. The Seventh Floor (1972) 7. EasyEd (1982) 8. ...And Be Lost Like Me (1983) 9. A Custom of the Children of Life (1972) 10. A Star Is Born (1974) 11. Last of the Chauvinists (1975) 12. Wrong Attitude (1971) 13. An Alien Conception (1977) 14. One-Man Game (1972) 15. Gentle Into That Good Night (1981) * First published in 2016 by Wildside Press