ANDERSON, Chester (Valentine John)
- ANDERSON, Chester (Valentine John)
(1932-1991)
US novelist and poet,
member of the Beat Generation,
editor of underground journals on both coasts,
and of Paul WILLIAMS'
s Crawdaddy,
a rock'
n'
roll magazine,
during the 1980s;
he wrote poetry as c v j anderson.
His sf was written in association with Michael KURLAND.
Ten Years to Doomsday (
1964),
a straight collaboration,
is a lightly written INVASION tale with a good deal of activity in space and on other planets.
The Butterfly Kid (
1967)
was written by CA alone,
but stands as the first volume of a comically surrealistic SHARED-
WORLD trilogy set in Greenwich Village,
the second instalment being The Unicorn Girl (
1969)
by Kurland and the third The Probability Pad (
1970)
by T.
A.
WATERS.
The trilogy stars all three authors (
RECURSIVE SF),
who become involved in the attempts of a pop group to fight off a more than merely psychedelic invasion menace: Greenwich Village is being threatened by a pill which actualizes people'
s fantasies.
Other works: Fox \&
Hare (
1980),
a fictionalized memoir of the real lives behind the trilogy.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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