The Fabulist Play Cycle

<p>For the first time in print Spencer's radio plays <em>Amazing Struggles</em> <em>Astonishing Failures</em> and <em>Disappointing Success</em> together with the follow-up four-part audio drama CULT STORIES tell the tales of disillusioned science fiction writers over the course of the mid-20th century.</p><p><strong><em>AMAZING STRUGGLES!</em></strong></p><p>In the Golden Age of science fiction a group of aspiring young authors the Fabulists is ready to wow the world with tales of interplanetary heroism and technological supremacy.</p><p><strong><em>ASTONISHING FAILURES!</em></strong></p><p>Unfortunately their dreams of fame and fortune are consistently dashed by the dastardly rejections of the compulsively conservative and out-of-touch editor of Tremendous Stories of Super Science.</p><p><strong><em>DISAPPOINTING SUCCESS (PARTS I & II)!</em></strong></p><p>While some of the Fabulists see middling success as teachers and television writers another becomes a science fiction mega-star whose writing (and the author's own pathology) spawns a cult religion with wild ideas that may be a bit less bogus than his short stories.</p><p><strong><em>CULT STORIES!</em></strong></p><p>And like an artistic pandemic some forms of science fiction can get very ugly. Only extreme measures will save us.</p><p>Foreword by Dr. Allan Weiss York University professor and author of <em>Making the Rounds</em></p>