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Venus on the Half-Shell and Others gathers for the very first time the best of the best from Philip José Player's scintillating "imaginary-author period."In the mid-1970s a temperature-pitched furor was made when a real book proposed to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science-fiction writer who looks as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, filled with a mystical back cover photograph of the author looking just like a bearded vagabond sage. Discussion raged regarding who'd certainly created Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut herself, or maybe Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to possess been the motivation for Bass? Or did Kilgore Bass truly occur?