![]() It was all bullshit down there fat, happy liars, turning their fat, happy faces away from the real trouble.” She didn’t know what friends meant, because down there in that phony Topeka nobody was really friends. “She didn’t know what it was to trust somebody like Blood so much that he was a part of you. The relationship between these two is at the heart of the story, particularly when a young woman comes between the two: Vic and Blood were one such partnership with Blood having the brains and Vic being little more than a dumb teenager barely smart enough to survive without the smarts and instincts of his canine partner. There were also solos who traveled without gang protection, dependent on their dog partners. The dogs were necessary to sniff out radiation monsters and to find females who were quite scarce. A Boy and His Dog postulated a savage survival universe where the earth’s surface was populated by teenage rover gangs and their telepathic dogs. ![]() Long before all the modern fantasies about a post-apocalyptic world, such a theme was extraordinarily popular in fifties and sixties science fiction with the idea being that there would be an atomic war and few survivors fending for themselves. ![]() A Boy And His Dog was one of the great classic shorts of late sixties science fiction and it’s shock value put Harlan Ellison on the map. ![]()
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