030- Lonely Road, by Richard Wilson, 1956
Wherein literature's most boring protagonist becomes a metaphorical snail.
Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are back from a brief summer hiatus, and they're visiting India's French Coast to discuss the 1956 Richard Wilson short story, "Lonely Road", from his short story collection, "Those Idiots from Earth".
Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was the author of three novels and a surprising number of short story collections, and "Those Idiots from Earth" was Ruiz's first introduction to this fellow's writing, which is better than Theodore Sturgeon's, and also less offensive.
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