Touche salesman gif12/22/2023 ![]() ![]() He has also edited books for DAW and NESFA Press. Steven H Silver is a sixteen-time Hugo Award nominee and was the publisher of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Argentus as well as the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years. Reviewed in its only publication in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy, e dited by Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf, 2001. The humor is not focused on jokes or puns, but rather on the nature of the situation and someone trying to cope with the extraordinary. Holt’s humor is on display throughout the story, featuring a normal guy, Paul, attempting to deal with a surreal experience, in this case an alien who looks like an angel and acts like a salesman. It is easy for Paul to convince himself after 6340097/227/3 that he’ll wake up from a dream to find his car is fine, his girlfriend wants him back, and he still has a job, none of which occur, although the alien does provide him with a thank you for their time together. Paul befriends him and learns a little about the alien’s job while at the same time amazing the alien with human’s complete lack of technology, but the ability to create a mug with a handle. It isn’t an angel, but rather an extraterrestrial salesman who knows just enough to figure out that he is on Earth sometime in the twentieth or twenty-first century, although his knowledge of Earth culture and technology is completely lacking. It isn’t another meteorite seeker he has bumped into, but rather 6340097/227/3, whom Paul first takes to be an angel. It is at this point that his luck begins to change. As he walked home, having missed the bus, of course, he sees a meteorite fall into a nearby construction site and decides to see if he can retrieve it, bumping into another meteorite seeker in the dark. ![]() Car problems, a girlfriend breaking up with him, and sudden unemployment. Paul was having the sort of day nobody should have. “Touched by a Salesman” has not been reprinted. ![]() As with many of Holt’s humorous stories, it takes its title from pop culture, in this case the television show Touched by an Angel, and twists it to the purposes of the story. “Touched by a Salesman” appeared in Mike Ashley’s anthology The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy in 2001. It wasn’t until after Holt won his second World Fantasy Award that he revealed his pseudonym in April 2015, seventeen years after he began using it with his novel Colours in the Steel in 1998. He has won back-to-back World Fantasy Awards for his novellas “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong” in 2012 and “Let Maps to Others” in 2013. Parker has earned him additional award nominations for the Kitschies and the World Fantasy Awards. His more recent, more series work under the name K.J. Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award in 1991 for his humorous novel Expecting Someone Taller. Holt received a nomination for the William L. ![]()
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