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James Van Pelt "The Last of the O-Forms" of 2002. Worth of mentioning but not filmmaking.
This short story is regarding a father and daughter who run a travelling zoo full of mutated animals after the outbreak of a genetic plague. This plague effected not only animals but humans as well. Healthy children became a rarity. I liked the story telling and the ways in which the author portrays the willingness of the father to exploit not only the animals but his daughter to survive.
I'm surprised to find myself writing the first Goodreads review of this collection, given how frequently some of the stories in it have been anthologized, and how well Van Pelt's work has been received by his peers.Van Pelt told the author of the book's introduction that, when he was little, he wanted to grow up to be Ray Bradbury. His work shares Bradbury's elegiac tone, an avoidance of 'hard' science, and thoughtful, deeply-felt characterizations. Occasionally the debt is more direct: the titl...
