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Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories

Howard Fast

First published 1975
Publisher Ward Ritchie Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages xvi+490
Price $12.95
ISBN 0378063758

Reassembly of The Edge of Tomorrow; The General Zapped an Angel and A Touch of Infinity.

  • As noted by Contento1, this is essentially an omnibus of all the stories in Howard Fast's previous four collections: The Edge of Tomorrow (1961), The Hunter and the Trap (1967), The General Zapped an Angel (1970), and A Touch of Infinity (1973.) It includes one new story, Echinomastus Contentii, plus a new Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword.
  • On copyright page: "Copyright (c) 1975", LCCN & ISBN.
  • $12.95 price on jacket front flap.
  • There is no credit for the jacket art.
  • The Foreword is signed "Louis Untermeyer", and the Introduction is signed "Frank Campenni, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Wisconsin".

Year Reviewer Publication
1976 Frederick Patten Delap's F & SF Review, March 1976

Searching by ISBN: 0378063758

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 UFO Howard Fast Short Story
7 The Hole in the Floor Howard Fast Short Story
15 General Hardy's Profession Howard Fast Short Story
31 Echinomastus Contentii Howard Fast Short Story
45 Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal Howard Fast Short Story
57 A Matter of Size Howard Fast Short Story
71 Show Cause Howard Fast Short Story
83 The Martian Shop Howard Fast Novelette
105 The Pragmatic Seed Howard Fast Short Story
111 The Trap Howard Fast Novelette
205 The Hoop Howard Fast Short Story
219 The Cold, Cold Box Howard Fast Short Story
233 The Talent of Harvey Howard Fast Novelette
255 The Wound Howard Fast Short Story
267 The General Zapped an Angel Howard Fast Short Story
277 The Price Howard Fast Short Story
289 The Vision of Milty Boil Howard Fast Short Story
301 Cato the Martian Howard Fast Short Story
313 Not with a Bang Howard Fast Short Story
317 The Movie House Howard Fast Novelette
335 Cephes 5 Howard Fast Short Story
345 Of Time and Cats Howard Fast Short Story
357 The Interval Howard Fast Short Story
367 The Egg Howard Fast Short Story
377 The Insects Howard Fast Short Story
391 The Sight of Eden Howard Fast Short Story
405 The Mind of God Howard Fast Short Story
417 The Mohawk Howard Fast Short Story
425 The Mouse Howard Fast Short Story
435 The Large Ant Howard Fast Short Story
445 The Hunter Howard Fast Novelette
481 Afterword (Time and the Riddle) Howard Fast Essay
ix Foreword (Time and the Riddle) Louis Untermeyer Essay
xi Introduction (Time and the Riddle) Frank Campenni Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories Cover 1980 Houghton Mifflin Trade Paperback Collection xv+490
Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories Cover 2011 Open Road Integrated Media eBook Collection