This Crowded Earth

There are others who are talking about this title as well but not have really gave it the treatment it deserves. Robert Bloch at the age of 41 wrote a novel that was featured just before writing Psycho. Project Gutenberg had the presentation with the artwork as the status unclaimed copyright. Now with the technology that exists in the era of the novel Nickolaus Pacione decided to give this the treatment that Amazing Stories were not able to give as this is a novel...
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There are others who are talking about this title as well but not have really gave it the treatment it deserves. Robert Bloch at the age of 41 wrote a novel that was featured just before writing Psycho. Project Gutenberg had the presentation with the artwork as the status unclaimed copyright. Now with the technology that exists in the era of the novel Nickolaus Pacione decided to give this the treatment that Amazing Stories were not able to give as this is a novel that's written entirely by itself so instead of an omnibus with other stories as this is presented with. This is done with the original artwork. The time frame of the book spans about 68 years. Robert Bloch's chilling vision of the earth being told in a way only someone who has grown up in Chicago can.
    Pacione having written in the time frame set in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2029 with quite a few of his stories figured this was the Robert Bloch title he could introduce and do this right. So with this release as Pacione was going, "Really this novel begins on my beer birthday year? Wow why the fuck haven't I looked into this before? The cover looks like an album from one of the bands my best friend listened to, called Failure. The album coming to mind Fantastic Planet." the novel as one might see Richard Matheson's I Am Legend set in the 1970s but written in the 1950s when he was still 27-28 years old. Robert Bloch was the teen protégée of H. P. Lovecraft as Lovecraft written some of his masterpieces at age 41. Pacione had a few protégées himself. This novel was a forgotten classic of Bloch's. Pacione very carefully handled the updated typesetting of the title and trying to give this a feel to one of his own anthology releases he's working on and trying to finish up. Using every bit of the original artwork from the publication as possible to really give this the vibe Finley originally intended for Robert Bloch's novel and wikisource he was able to give this the treatment he wanted to give it. With print on demand technology now in it's near decade plus; Nickolaus Pacione was able to get published because of this and now one gets to see This Crowded Earth entirely by itself. The book itself would lend well from this technology as Tabloid Purposes: Book Five predicted how this technology revived the print medium.
    Each chapter title is a characters name and a year and each of them tell their story as one of them mentions Wheaton, Illinois, and another like Pacione was a writer who is published. They talk paper publication in the future but it's a question of an operation like either CreateSpace.com or Lulu.com would been around in that time it's a guess. So this world -- in the 1950s; this would been a tale of a dark retro-future but the question would been how would Pacione's Cyber:Terror:Machine fare in this world. Mary Sangiovanni accuses him of being derivative but having an author who grew up near where his late grandmother did. It felt this novel would be that release only Pacione can do the introduction and give this justice. Chapter Eight of the novel really intrigued Pacione because Robocop and Terminator were also set in those years too as Metropolis would been in that timeline too. Pacione thinking, "Why take part in Shadows Over Main Street when I held my own with H. P. Lovecraft and the new anthology will see some surprises of my own. Well screw it I am going to introduce this."
    H. P. Lovecraft -- who was a chief literary influence on Pacione. Rod Serling and Bloch were second in command on that department as he was a hometown hero. Robert Bloch better known for authoring Psycho and edited Robert Bloch's Psychos before his passing. 21 years after his death we have a special presentation of the first masterpiece.