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Subject: Re: Carcinoma Angels
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 01:55:32 EDT
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From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke)

From Doug Alan:
> For some reason the title "Carcinoma Angel" has been floating around
> in my head ... I'm sure it's the title for an SF story I read ...

It is indeed!  It's the last story in "Dangerous Visions" (*edited*
by Harlan Ellison, and one of the best SF anthologies ever, for those
who haven't read it...).  The story itself is by Norman Spinrad, and
is about a man, successful at all endeavours, who contracts cancer
and decides to cure it by force of will, through decidedly unorthodox
means.  The "Carcinoma Angels" are manifestations of his cancer cells
as motorcycle-gang members (I *said* his means were unorthodox!).

Read the story.  Hell, read the whole book!  And then read "Again,
Dangerous Visions", too!  (When will "The Last ..." be out?  I
heard it would be soon.)

				--Peter Alfke  [jpa144@cit-vax]

"Bibliography Is Just A Goddam Hobby"

(PS: I'm soon to be alfke.pasa@xerox)