‘An Apocalypse: Some Scenes From European Life’

The time-travelling Karl Glogauer first appeared in ‘Behold The Man’, a Nebula Award-winning novella (in New Worlds, 1966) (q.v.), which was expanded to novel length in 1969 (q.v.). Breakfast In The Ruins followed in 1972, and is not a sequel, as such, although it does feature Karl Glogauer — but whether it’s the same Karl Glogauer(s)…?

‘An Apocalypse: Some Scenes From European Life’ first appeared (under that title) a year after Breakfast In The Ruins, and comprises extracts from that novel, namely the main bulk of Chapters 2, 6 & 9.

First (anthologised) appearance: Bad Moon Rising
New York: Harper & Row, 1973 (April) hardcover;
edited by Thomas M. Disch;
original price: $6·95;
ix + 302 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-06-011046-5;

cover artist: Patricia Dunbar.

‘An Apocalypse: Some Scenes From European Life’: pp. 53–93.




London: Hutchinson, 1974 hardcover;
original price: £2·50;
315 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-09-118420-7;

cover artist: Chris Yates.

‘An Apocalypse: Some Scenes From European Life’: pp. 64–104.