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Download the Butterfly Kid, Chester Anderson, Pocket Books, 1980 The Butterfly Kid, Chester Anderson, Pocket Books, 1980, 0671832964, 9780671832964, . Caribbean Stories I See These Islands, Michael Mitchell, 1996, , 128 pages. The Specialists Plunder, Chet Cunningham, Dec 1, 1999, Fiction, 294 pages. An elite group of top members from the FBI, Navy Seals, CIA, Britain's MI-6, and Israel's Mossad investigate the mysterious death of an American who was trying to find a .... Lethal exposure , Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Jul 1, 1998, , 290 pages. At the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, Nobel physics candidate Georg Dumenco is bombarded with a lethal dose of radiation, and must join forces with FBI .... The New Consciousness An Anthology of the New Literature, Albert J. LaValley, 1972, History, 567 pages. The spiritual supermarket , Robert Greenfield, 1975, Religion, 277 pages. Science Fiction The Best of 2002, Robert A. Silverberg, Karen Haber, Mar 1, 2003, , 432 pages. A well-known science fiction writer and his long-time collaborator offer a collection of science fiction stories selected from magazines, journals, and anthologies.. From the ocean, from the stars an omnibus containing the complete novels: The deep range and The city and the stars, and twenty-four short stories, Arthur Charles Clarke, 1962, Fiction, 515 pages. The Unicorn Girl , Michael Kurland, Dec 1, 2002, Fiction, 172 pages. Ten years to doomsday a science fiction novel, Chester Anderson, Michael Kurland, 1964, , 158 pages. Secret Thirst , Evangeline Anderson, Apr 20, 2005, Fiction, . Secret Thirst Evangeline Anderson Dr. Lauren Wright is a serious research scientist with blonde hair, smoky green eyes and a curvy plus-size figure. Too bad her closest .... Baghdad-by-the-Bay , Herb Caen, 1949, , 276 pages. When Chester, Michael and Tom -- Anderson, Kurland and Waters -- were living at 63 Ave. D, I lived around the corner on Sixth Street. I read the Book when it first came out and was charmed. I knew everybody in the thing, which is a strange place to be. When it was nominated for a Hugo -- and lost to Zelazny's "Lord of Light" -- I was amazed. That book? Written by friends of mine? A Hugo? Wow! The remarkable thing is that most of the book is true, with names slightly changed to protect the guilty. I know people who saw the Blue Lobsters. Really! The funny thing is that no one I know who knew Chester could keep the book on their shelves. You'd read it and then go look for it to loan to someone else to read and it would be gone! We figured that Chester recalled them to resell to new readers. First in a series of three loosely linked novels (Michael Kurland "The Probability Pad" and Tom Waters "The Unicorn Girl" are the other two in the series. All three books are among the funniest I've ever read, as well as complete with allusions to 60's culture and other science fiction. The Waters book, for example, begins in Berkeley in the 60's, and segues neatly into Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy universe. Please God (and publishers!), introduce a new generation to the glories of reality pills, lobsters with attitude, and slipping universes. The things I like best about looking for Chester's, Michael's, Tom's, and even Toni's books are that I find both that most of the books are still available and surprisingly, a number of old friends are still lurking about. Amazon is going to have start serving coffee and small loaves of black bread if this continues. After Chester, Michael, and Tom left Ave D, and Jamie left 6th St., the Ave D, 6th fl walk up apartment was turned over to one of the walk-ons from Butterfly Kid; a person I soon joined, sharing it and life and thus being able to attest to Jamie's history. However an added comment is relevant that Chester's recorder music comes alive to me as much from this tale of Blue Lobsters and culprits named Lazlo, as from the live listenings enjoyed on the street or in the Rienzie, and that is a clue to the readability of this work. For those wanting to wander down the real fantasy streets of the Middle Ages of the Village or, for those wishing to refresh some memories, "Butterfly Kid" will romance and entertain you. Yes, many of us have read it and reread it again, but not just for the nostalgia. The tale is fun; the prose bringing the fantastic to bright color and the characters very much to life. If you "participated" in the 60's counter-culture (either rock n roll or drugs), whether you remember very much of it or not, you will find this book hilarious! Chester Anderson can turn a phrase in unique ways and paint scenes so vivid (and so improbable) that I laughed out loud many times on my first reading. I then read it again and again and again, always finding new things to smile at. I loaned my copy to a friend. He lost it. I bought another copy. I lost it when I moved 10-12 years ago. I've looked to replace it ever since. I mean, really! The idea of a bunch of hippies sitting around waiting to get high enough to save the world is funny enough, but the blue lobster's idea of torture, connecting Chester to machines which made him experience illusions, and dreams that he would have PAID for, is just too much! "I was the rabbit in the moon. I was as corny as Kansas in orbit. I wasn't thinking very well at all! Masterpieces of understatement throughout. "She was blonde or so, wearing white capri pants just too tight enough." Anyway, if you're "stuck in the 60's," this is a must read. What do you get when a band of six-foot-tall, blue lobsters from another planet secretly land in Greenwich Village, befriend the village idiot, plan to introduce a hallucinogenic drug into New York's drinking water, and the only thing that can prevent global conquest by crustaceans is a busload of Hippies? Chester Anderson's "The Butterfly Kid", that's what you get, baby. Chester Anderson, as a character in the book somewhat loosely based upon himself, stumbles upon a teenybopper in the park one day, and is surprised to see him create butterflies out of thin air! Not much later, Chester's friend Andy suddenly dons a dayglo-blue halo around his body. Upon further investigation, it turns out that the village idiot, one Laszlo Scott, has been distributing some new drug throughout the village, and it's effect is quite unique, quite exciting, and horribly dangerous. The Butterfly Kid is a science fiction novel by Chester Anderson originally released in 1967. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968.[1] The novel is the first part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Michael Kurland writing the second book (The Unicorn Girl) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written by T.A. Waters. The novel is primarily set in Greenwich Village, and is thoroughly saturated with psychedelic and 1960s counterculture elements. The time is an undefined near future, indicated by SF elements such as video phones and personal hovercraft; the Bicentennial is also mentioned. The use of psychoactive drugs and their effects are a central element of the story; much of the action revolves around an alien-introduced drug (referred to as "Reality Pills") that cause LSD-like hallucinations to manifest physically, generally causing chaos. The book's protagonist shares a name with the author, and another character shares the name of Michael Kurland, a friend and roommate of the author's at that time.[2] The book's counterculture subject matter and lighthearted tone have led to it being associated with the New Wave movement in science fiction.[citation needed] Although some reviews state that the novel is "written with wit and elegance,"[3] and "an engaging expression of countercultural exuberance,"[4] another points to it being "already dated" as of 1984.[5] Chester Valentine John Anderson (August 11, 1932 - April 11, 1991) was a novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press. Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956, before becoming a beatnik coffee house poet in Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach. As a poet, he wrote under the name C.V.J. Anderson and edited the little magazines Beatitude and Underhound. In journalism, he specialized in rock and roll. In that area, he was a friend of Paul Williams and edited Crawdaddy! for a few issues in 1968-1969. He also wrote science fiction, due in part to the influence of Michael Kurland. Anderson's The Butterfly Kid is the first part of what is called the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Kurland writing the second book (The Unicorn Girl) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written by T.A. Waters. The novel was nominated for the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It, and his few other genre works are associated with New Wave science fiction. He was also a gifted musician, played two part inventions with two recorders simultaneously, played duets with Laurence M. Janifer at the Cafe Rienzi. He subsequently moved to San Francisco during the Summer of Love and, along with Claude Hayward, was one of the founders of the Communications Company (ComCo), the "publishing arm" of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers,[1] having bought a mimeograph with his second royalty check from Butterfly Kid.[2] Through ComCo, he circulated a number of his own bitter broadside polemics in the Haight, including "Uncle Tim's Children," with its infamous, often quoted line, "Rape is as common as bullshit on Haight Street." Joan Didion described the role Chester Anderson and ComCo played in Haight-Ashbury in her 1968 book Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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