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Some Novels by Howard Fast
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Freedom
Road (1943)
Place
in The City (1937)
April Morning (1961)
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The Immigrants (1977)
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Spartacus (1997)
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The Dinner Party (1987)
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Greenwich (2000)
 On
the evening of the third of April, standing at the window of his
pleasant three-bedroom, split-levet house and admiring the sunset,
Alfred Collins saw a hand rise above the hoirzon, spread thumb
and forefinger, and snuff out the sun. It was the moment of soft
twilight, and it ended as abruptly as if someone had flicked an
electric switch.
Not with a Bang
 Our
children kiss and caress each otehr and do many things that the
world has specified as shocking, nasty, forbidden, dirty, obsecene.
But whatever they do, they do it with grace and they do it with
joy, and they have no guilt nor any knowledge whatsoever of guilt.
Guilt as aword or fact is meaningless to them.
The
First Men
 It happens frequently that some marvelous discovery made by
a brilliant scientist for the good of humanity proves fatal and
catastrophic instead, but that fact is not going to prevent brilliant
and enterprising scientists from continuing their painstaking
search for something new and startling. How can any man foresee
dire results from apparently innocent experiments? The answer
is here proved once more--he can't.
First
published Howard Fast story
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"I say to you: read and wonder"
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TIME
AND THE RIDDLE
...each
and every story move along light, springy, ironic
and inventive, skirting the borders of time and space
inside and outside of man.
Wisdom
arrives at the door of those who remain simple, child-like,
it is not a matter of "intelligence" and "learning."
Throughout the stories the authority figures-scientists,
generals, businessmen-have little to tell us despite
their intelligence.
...along the way, we can be sustained by love, by
patience and by forgiveness ("we are what we are")
along with the saving grace of humor.
...these are stories that makes you frown, smile,
wonder, feel that you live and last but not least
that you are among a bunch of madmen!
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 "Throughout
these speculative stories I have used elements of humor
and horror, irony and illumination. But above all, I hope
you discover in them my firm belief in man's ability to
endure, despite life's most profound uncertainties.
Robert
Louis Stevensons, in his poems for children observed that
"the world is so full of number of things, I am sure
we should all be as happy as kings," and while happiness
is by no means certain, even in a child's world, the number
of things are countless. "
- Howard Fast
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 The
world has gone through a 3000 years long atomic war. Nations,
races and tongues have disappeared. The handful of people
who have survived have gatherher together and intermarried.
Then one day an egg is found.. the last Egg left on earth.
> The Egg
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Planet
Cephes 5, the dumping
ground of nature's misfits and murderers (guess where
it is!) is a world where everyone spends their life creating
an ego structure which subjectively places them at the
center of the universe. > Cephes
5.
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The
modern Platonic vision in "The Movie
House" is a sad tragedy where people are living inside
a house, and don't know anything about the world outside.
The only "shadow" of the real world they have, are movies.
Each day everyone in the house gathers to watch movies that
have been filmed in the real world; westerns, classics,
sex movies, etc. But the house has a secret. It is full
of doors, locked doors that have not been opened before.
No one questions them, or are curious of them, since they've
always been locked. But there is also a mythological and
mystical notion of a "key". No one believes in its existence
either, but then one day a bright and curious young fellow
decides that the key might be real, and that a key can be
made. > The Movie House
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Tomorrows Wall Street Journal
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The
devil knocks the door of Martin Chessell and offers him a
copy of "everyone's desire and dream", Tomorrow's Wall
Street Journal. > Tomorrows
Wall Street Journal |
...It's
a vision, a hope for a new race of men, a spiritual species
of homo sapiens, a breed that might save humanity from what
seems to be his built-in drive for destructiveness. >
The Trap
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A
radio signal is being picked up in various parts of the
world, in various languages. It's a voice, a statement:
"You must stop killing us."
> The Insect
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The
breathing earth, the bleeding soil... as they search for oil,
they find something entirely different. > The
Wound
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