Plumage From Pegasus: Have Gun, Will Edit

Overview:

• Title: Plumage From Pegasus: Have Gun, Will Edit
• Author: Paul Di Filippo
• Year: 1996
• Type: Short Fiction
• Series: Plumage from Pegasus

Synopsis:

Narrator, a hired killer/thug helping writers get rid of competition, visits his latest customer.

Notes:

From farcical series of shortshorts in F&SF (a la Astounding/Analog's Probability Zero, inspired by quotes relating to the genre); currently mostly listed as essays in ISFDB, but having plot, narrator etc. Reprint in Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology keeps the series name in the title.

Editions/Publications:

• 1996. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1996 (1996, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, $2.95, Magazine)
• 1999. The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (October 07, 1999, Gordon Van Gelder, Edward L. Ferman Tor, ISBN-10: 0312869738, $24.95, 381 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)

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