（外文电子版资料）Charles L. Grant - A Crowd of Shadows.pdf

file:///G|/rah/Charles%20L.%20Grant%20-%20A%20Crowd%20of%20Shadows.txt VERSION 1.0 dtd 032900 CHARLES L. GRANT A Crowd of Shadows One of the characteristics not mentioned in the introduction to this volume is the fact that those who end up being successful in this field tend to have one particular virtue before all others. This is the characteristic of being able and willing to work very hard indeed at their writing. Charlie Grant is a worker and, in a few short years, has compiled an impressive record as a young author. He was born in 1942, and was raised and lived in New Jersey. On his way to becoming a fulltime writer and after graduating from Trinity College, Hartford, with a B.A. in history, he taught English, drama, and history in public high schools in New Jersey. He is married, has a son named Ian, and is still living in the East. He is now, however, a full- time writer with just over three dozen stories sold, as well as five novels in the science fiction and fantasy field. He has edited both nonfiction and fiction, and he has been the Executive Secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America for four years now. A Crowd of Shadows, the story that follows, is interestingly much more of a piece of writing than its surface action seems to indicate which is reflected in the fact that it won the Nebula Award for short stories this year. Charlie Grant tends to be a strongly thematic writer and this, together with his capability for hard work, promises a great deal more remarkable writing to be seen under his name in the future. Of all the means of relaxation that I have devised for myself over the years, most required nothing more strenuous than driving an automobile, and not one of them had anything remotely to do with murder. Yet there it was, and now here I am-alone, though not always lonely, and wondering, though not always puzzled. Im nether in jail nor exile, asylum nor hospital. Starburst is where I am and, unless I can straig