The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations

This volume collects 9 classic science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Included are: "The Rule of the Door, " "Petty Larceny, " "On the Dotted Line, " "Judgement Day, " "Secret Weapon, " "The Perfect Punishment, " "A Slight Case of Limbo, " "D. F. C. , " and "Wings of Song." Also included is the original 1967 introduction by the author. In "The Rule of the Door": The owner had a positive mania for closets and doors. Along one entire wall of that spacious living room were closets, large, window-less closets. Their doors were structural monstrosities, fully two feet thick, that functioned strangely. They were hung with a strange type of hinge none of the carpenters had ever seen before. And the doors opened inward. Who ever heard of a closet with a door that opened inward? There were eleven of them, and the central closet was left unfinished and doorless…

© 2012 Wildside Press (Ebook): 9781434448415

Release date

Ebook: 23 July 2012