On Account of Darkness and Other Stories

Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg. Five Star (ME), $26.95 (250pp) ISBN 978-1-59414-038-9

On Account of Darkness and Other SF Stories, by Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, collects all 20 collaborative tales between these two genre pros, plus a novelette by Malzberg alone and five tales by Pronzini. Fans will be pleased to learn from the joint introduction that the friendship between the two authors that ended in 1986 was resurrected in 2000.

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