With David’s help, the editor chose some of the best of David Gerrold’s short works from across his entire career, including the Hugo-winning, “The Martian Child”n.

Table of Contents

The Truth About David Gerrold by Spider Robinson

Author’s Rebuttal by David Gerrold

Interlude #1: Solomon Short

The Martian Child

Pickled Mongoose

Interlude #2: Solomon Short

Blood and Fire

A Shaggy Dog Story

The Strange Death of Orson Welles

Interlude #3: Solomon Short

It Needs Salt

The Satanic Limericks #1

And Eight Rabid Pigs

The Satanic Limericks #2

The Baby Cooper Dollar Bill

Interlude #4: Solomon Short

Digging in Gehenna

King Kong: Behind the Scenes

King Kong: The Unanswered Questions

The Kennedy Enterprise

Chester

Interlude #5: Solomon Short

Chess With a Dragon

The Green Man

The Diamond Sky

Interlude #6: Solomon Short

Riding Janis

Dancer in the Dark

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