Bob wrote:
The best last
> line I've ever read comes at the end of *Rogue Moon*
by Algis Budrys:
> "Remember me to her." Not much of a line by itself.
Read the book
and it'll
> break your heart. It's SF, but it's pretty
hardboiled.
Although I haven't read it yet, it wouldn't surprise me at
all. WHO? by Budrys was HB IMO - (basically a Cold War
thriller with astronauts & a tasty little book, IIRC) -
and the short story MASTER OF THE HOUNDS from one or other of
the "PULP" anthologies (the 1st Jakubowski edited one?) is
one of my all time favourite noir short stories along with
Goodis's BLACK PUDDING, Bruno Fischer's WE ARE ALL DEAD, Joe
Lansdale's THE NIGHT THEY MISSED THE PICTURE SHOW & Joe
Gores's SECOND COMING. (The one thing they all seem to have
in common is that they are all very dark stories, the Budrys
short being no exception).
Rene
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