A review by lindarobinett
The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis

3.0

This is the infamous short story written by a 16 year old boy. This edition contains a forward that explains the search for the author and the missing last page of the story. There is not much about the author except he did become a journalist, a writer and passed away fairly early. The story is a standard sword and sorcery story but the telling thing is the unedited bad use of the English language. Misspellings proliferate. This is why it is famous in science fiction conventions where it is read out loud and one must struggle not to laugh. My suspicion is that the author's high school English teacher suggested that he use a Thesaurus. I find that tool to be not very helpful and actually quite dangerous as words have subtle differences in meaning and authors who use Thesaurii, find themselves using the wrong words.