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The Wild Palms Reader

Roger Trilling & Stuart Swezey

First published 1993
Series Wild Palms
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Ana Barrado
Pages 127
Price $14.95
ISBN 0312090838

  • Copyright page states "First Edition: March 1993" above 10 – 1 number line.
  • Cover photo credited on copyright page.
  • Some contents are untitled on the pages they appear and are ascribed either to no author, a real-world Slovenian political group or a fictional character from the TV series Wild Palms, while titles and the true authors are given in the Contents on page 3. For searchability purposes the Contents have therefore been used to determine untitled entries and authorship as stated.
  • Contents page also states "All of Anton Kreutzer's metaphysical writings were written by Genesis P. Orridge", and they do not appear in the list of Contents. These are listed below as "Untitled" with an excerpt from the first line.
  • Contents are interspersed with script excerpts from the TV series, written by Bruce Wagner, and panels from the Wild Palms comic written by Bruce Wagner and drawn by Julian Allen, that originally appeared in Details Magazine.
  • Also priced $19.99 in Canada.

Year Reviewer Publication
1993 Julie Atkin Vector 175

Searching by ISBN: 0312090838

Page Title Author(s) Type
8 Letter from Manzanar Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
10 Tremendum of Dead Stars: Fragments from a Lost City Bruce Wagner Short Fiction
12 The Apotheosis of Richard Philo Thomas Disch Short Fiction
14 Turning Japanese Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
17 Untitled ("There is a time that each of us knows ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
19 The End of History Brenda Laurel Short Fiction
21 An Invasive Approach to High-Bandwidth Neural-Electronic Interfaces Hans Moravec Short Fiction
22 Funding the Future Ned Jackson Short Fiction
24 The Body Electric Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
25 Letter to the Fathers Jamie Malinowski Short Fiction
26 The Midnight Oath of the Fathers Neue Slowenische Kunst Short Fiction
27 The World's Smallest Violin Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
28 A Meditation Mary Gaitskill Short Fiction
30 The Face of Power John Homans Short Fiction
31 They Call Me Mad Norman Spinrad Short Fiction
32 Notes from the Underground Peter Wollen Short Fiction
34 The More Monkeys the Better Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
35 What I Did on My Summer Vacation Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
36 The Sins of the Fathers Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
38 Paris Loves Me Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
39 He's Not a Genius, But at Least He Knows It Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
41 Royal Wedding Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
42 Can We Afford Channel Three? Howard Rodman Short Fiction
43 Untitled ("1.6: These texts are a book about the people and their Gods ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
44 Running to Paradise Jamie Malinowski Short Fiction
46 New Cathedrals Norman Spinrad Short Fiction
49 Lite Sublime Ralph Rugoff Short Fiction
50 Max Secret E. Howard Hunt Short Fiction
52 Tear Away Lemmy Kilmister Poem
53 A Small Circle of Friends Jamie Malinowski Short Fiction
54 A Small Case of Mood Poisoning; Must Be Something I Hate. Thomas Disch Short Fiction
56 Floating World Los Angeles: 1993-2008 Ralph Rugoff & Fred Dewey Short Fiction
60 Diary of a Mad Housewife Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
64 Sister Soldier Jamie Malinowski Short Fiction
65 Song to Daddy Malcolm McLaren Poem
65 Untitled ("We signal and are signalled ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
66 You Can Change Channels to the New Realities J. G. Eccarius Short Fiction
68 Report from the Pharm Pat Cadigan Short Fiction
71 The Pharmacology of Mimezine Gary Henderson Short Fiction
72 In "Touch" with Life Melissa Hoffs Short Fiction
73 Untitled ("Dreams are the coded material of eternity ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
74 E-mail Hans Moravec Short Fiction
76 Milestones in Mental Augmentation Hans Moravec Short Fiction
77 Untitled ("We manufacture our cherished dreams and myths ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
78 Untitled ("Television is our new exterior brain ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
80 Changing the World with Personal Reality Recording Brenda Laurel Short Fiction
82 Everything That Was Lost Ned Jackson Short Fiction
86 Win a Dream Date with Coty! Jane Pratt Short Fiction
87 TV Guide 2008 Adam Dubov Short Fiction
90 Hungry Ghosts Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
92 Amazon Grace Stuart Swezey Short Fiction
94 Untitled ("The eradication of the tyrannical nuclear family ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
97 Untitled ("Fugu does not just access alternate realities ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
97 Untitled ("The Tibetans call it going into the rainbow body ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
105 Excuse Me While I Slip Into a Warm Coma Hillary Johnson Short Fiction
107 Untitled ("Man gave names in order to control ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
108 Alchemical Letter R. B. Donner Short Fiction
110 Memo from the Perceptory Pat Cadigan Short Fiction
113 Untitled ("All Hallucinations are Real ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
113 Untitled ("In a world that is becoming a hologram...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
114 Memo from Turner Bruce Sterling Short Fiction
118 Untitled ("I lay in the desert, on my back, staring up at the stars ...") Genesis P-Orridge Short Fiction
120 All Dressed Up to Go Away Bruce Wagner Short Fiction
122 Where the Holograms Go William Gibson Short Fiction

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Wild Palms Reader 1993 Warner Books UK Trade Paperback Anthology Ana Barrado 127