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Read in 2009This is copy 2 of 200 signed numbered copies,26 lettered Hardcover copies were also produced.
Doc Good's Traveling Show is a Cal Wild story set in Gene O'Neill's post-apocalyptic setting that he has used many times before, and it was very nice to revisit this setting. The story is a single tale telling the story of two freeman boys (freemen live outside the shields in the radiation wasteland) who have a talent and use it to join Doctor Good's Traveling Show. The talent is levitating or slowing down the motion of objects, and is obviously an amazing sight. The boys make great money and be...
This is the second story of Gene O'Neill's that I've read set in his CalWild post-apocalyptic setting. I took a seven-year breather between my last foray into CalWild and this one. Unfortunately, except for his inventive penal system (which makes a cameo appearance of sorts in this novella), there's little here that rings with any originality. Indeed, my biggest frustration is how predictable—how trope-y—these stories tend to be. O'Neill's writing is clean and entertaining, but the stories and i...
