Avram Davidson

It's been a long time since I last read anything by Avram Davidson. (Well, that's not quite true. I've read his short story "Or All the Seas With Oysters" several times in the last ten or fifteen years; it's the one about paper clips, and bicycles, and poor Ferdie the Birdie....) At Denvention, I picked up a couple of his novels from the '60s and '70s, including Ursus of Ultima Thule. I know that I read it once, around the time that it came out, but what I didn't remember was what a fine stylist Davidson was. I just finished Chapter III, and I want to discuss one scene at some length.

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