Alan Arkin: 5 books

Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was." An Improvised Life is the Oscar winner's wise and unpretentious recollection of the process--artistic...

Unbeknownst to many fans, Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin, whose movie career was revitalized with his 2006 role in the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine, also had a brief career as a science-fiction writer in the 1950s. "People Soup" is a charming and somewhat unsettling tale of two boys who inadvertently...

MDP Publishing has once again compiled a collection of 6 stories from some of history's most prolific Science Fiction icons. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. Stories include the 3 part full length novel The Fireman, by Ray Bradbury, the...

Volume III of the Classic Sci-Fi Collection!!! The stunning science fiction contents include: Angel's Egg, by Edgar Pangborn/Growing Up on Big Muddy, by Charles de Vet/License to Steal, by Louis Newman/Man in a Quandry, by L.J. Stecher, Jr./Not a Creature Was Stirring, by Dean Evans/People Soup, by...

Few people realize it today, but famed actor Alan Arkin wrote two science fiction short stories in the 1950s, beginning with "Whiskaboom" in 1955 and "People Soup" in 1958. This volume collects both classic tales!