I answered a question similar to 'Where do you get your ideas?', "Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?", recently but it got displayed as the answer to a different question: "How do you deal with writer’s block?": a problem I've never had & a problem that indicates to me that someone who has it isn't actually much of a writer. The "Introduction by Montese Crandall", the bk's meta-narrative fictional author, begins w/ "People often ask me where I get my ideas." I've always thought that was a particularly stupid question, 'Why from the Ideas store, of course! I've even got a special discount card that I carry around w/ me at all times!' On Goodreads, if one is a "Goodreads Author" like I am, one can answer questions like this to promote one's writing. I was w/ my friend who's a Creative Writing prof & I asked him if he knew Moody's work & he sd he'd read his short stories & liked them. When I was in a used bkstore I noticed this bk & saw that it's Science Fiction by someone who doesn't usually write SF. Surprise, surprise, my full review is too long for here.
It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.By tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - March 6, 2015 The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.
In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally - a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, The Crawling Hand.
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife.
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