Loved itif I had to name a Malzberg as like the best Malzberg, it would probably be Destruction of the Temple.
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The Destruction of the Temple (1974)
Others: Positive The year is 2016, and President Kennedy is being murdered - again and again and again. The director has come to the charred ruins of New York to re-enact a mad dream from the past - the assassination of President Kennedy. As actors, he has the primitive race who inhabit the city. With them and his glamorous, dark haired lover, he rehearses everything - the motorcade, the shots, the panic. But at the last moment it all goes wrong. When the flower-filled limousine rounds the bend, the passenger is not Kennedy - but the Director himself. Shots ring out in a wild explosion of roses.
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- 9780671776961
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- 159 pages
Genres: science fiction
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