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Appearing in "The Day After the Day the Martians Came!"

Featured Characters:

  • Mr. Mandala (Motel Owner)
  • Ernest (Motel Employee)

Other Characters:

  • Harry (Ellen's husband)
  • Ellen (Harry's wife)
  • Dr. Hugo Bache (Appears on screen) (Veterinarian)
  • Colonel Raymond M. Cummins (Appears on screen) (Commander of the Algonquin-Nine Space Probe)
  • Charles Christopher Aldiss (Appears on screen) (Space Biologist)
  • Mario (Motel Guest)

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Items:

  • Algonquin-Nine Space Probe (Appears on screen)

Synopsis for "The Day After the Day the Martians Came!"

On the surface, this story is science fiction about humans contacting Martians, but it really focuses on race relations. A black man realizes that his people's lot in life is going to be better now that the Martians have been put in the role as second-class citizens.

Appearing in "Nightmare at Noon!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Astonishing #54

Featured Characters:

  • Chris (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Stella (First appearance)
  • Miss Bianca (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Pirates
    • Four unnamed pirates

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Kelp (First appearance)

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Items:

  • Girl's Ring

Synopsis for "Nightmare at Noon!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Astonishing #54
When Chris' girlfriend, Stella, threatens to leave him unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. Chris defeats the pirates, and as a reward the woman gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When Chris comes to he finds he still has the ring while Mr. Kelp, Chris' real estate broker brings a buyer to the island. The buyer, Miss Bianca, is a spitting image of the woman from his vision.

Appearing in "He That Hath Wings"

Featured Characters:

  • David Harriman (Apparent death)

Supporting Characters:

  • Doctor John Harriman (Death)
  • Ruth Hall
  • Wilson Hall

Other Characters:

  • Nurse
  • Doctor Morris
  • David & Ruth's son

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Synopsis for "He That Hath Wings"

A boy born with wings is adopted by his doctor. David and his father John move to an island off the coast of Maine where he grows up into a young man. John eventually passes from natual causes and David uses it as an excuse to free himself from the island and fly with the birds. David eventually meets a girl when he's mistaken for a hawk and shot down. David heals fine but is pressured to lose his wings by Ruth in order stay with her and lead a normal life. Choosing Ruth, David has his wings amputated and the two are married shortly after. David and Ruth have a son and while most of Ruth's time is preoccupied with him David notices that his wings are regrowing. Soon they grow large enough that he can not ignore them any longer. He decides he will remove them but before doing so he wants to fly one last time. In the air David realizes that is where he truly belongs and that flying is true freedom, knowing this he flies as high up as he can until his wings tire and he falls to the ocean below where it can be assumed that was his final flight.

Notes

  • "The Day After the Day the Martians Came!" is adapted from the story by Frederik Pohl (copyright 1967 by Harlan Ellison for Dangerous Visions, by permission of the author and the author's agent, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc., 580 Fifth Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10036).

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