THE ERSATZ

by Charles Nuetzel

Overview

Ersatzes exist in a world where universal peace, pop-ulation control and boredom drove people to the edge of vio-lence. The Ersatz was the ideal solution to such social rage!
Angry at your boss—take it out on your ersatz. That’s what they are for!
Nagged by your wife—whack your ersatz instead of her!
Have a husband who is cheating on you—blow your ersatz’s head off!
That’s what they were made for! And there was an endless supply of these android creatures! Even in an over-populated world. Ersatzes could be recycled! Mindless, soul-less inventions of human science, they were the ultimate so-lution to man’s problems.
Only the National Organization FREE spoke to change things. FREE = For Rising Ersatz Equality!
Only FREE was mad enough to believe that ersatzes might offer much more to its masters than simply an outlet for its violent nature.
It was a losing cause, until…
Benny arrived!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016112763
Publisher:	HALDOLENl
Publication date:	12/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	173 KB

About the Author

Charles Nuetzel was born in San Francisco in 1934 to Albert Nuetzel (a professional commercial artist) and Betty Nuetzel (housewife).
"We came south to Los Angeles at the beginning of WW II, around 1942, where dad worked for Pacific Title, which did title credits and special effects for major motion picture companies. As a teenager I became an ERB fan and then flew hungrily into the world of science fiction. I convinced my father to try his hand at doing sci-fi covers; and soon he was being published by Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories & Fantastic Stories; later he did covers for a number of local pocket book publishers. All my life I wanted to become a professional writer and around 1960, with the help of Forrest J Ackerman, I started selling professionally. In some cases Dad's work appeared on my own novels! This kind of double sale worked greatly to our advantage over the following years.
"I was lucky enough not only in selling my stories to publishers but also ending up packaging books for some of them, and finally becoming a 'publisher' much like those who had bought my first novels. From there it was a simple leap to editing not only a sci-fi anthology, but a line of sci-fi books for Powell Publications. Throughout these active professional years I had the chance to design some covers and do graphic cover layouts for pocket books & magazines such as Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales, Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine and Zane Grey."
Mr. Nuetzel now lives in Thousand Oaks, CA, with his German born wife Brigitte. There are a number of interviews with him on his webpage at his http://haldolen.com/Haldolen_Universe.htm.