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Godgift Amos _odgift — ** spoiler alert ** *SPOILERS* "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus" - This was a great story to read after getting home from Christmas shopping at the mall. Pohl's story approaches Christmas in a dark and satirical way by imagining a future where consumerism has run completely rampant and the Christmas season has come to engulf the greater part of the year leading up to Dec. 25th. This story follows the exploits of George Martin, a middle manager who works long hours at a busy and competitive Sears-like store called the Emporium. Martin is a 30-year-old work-a-holic who lives alone, never made time to get married, and spends his nights hooked up to a "dreamster" device that allows him to experience fantasies. As I was reading this, I was impressed with the prophetic nature of Pohl's writing. Similar to the way Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' included a Facebook/Myspace-obsessed character, Pohl hits the nail on the head about countless modern American men who have allowed work to crush their spirits and internet pornography to stand in the place of traditional (or stable) relationships. In any event, Martin's habitual lifestyle is turned completely on its side when he meets and clumsily falls in love with Lilymary Hargreave, a new part-timer who goes to work in his gift-wrapping department. Hargreave comes from a tightly-knit family of missionaries who spent many years in the Third World spreading the good word. As Martin pursues Hargreave, the story deals with the clash between their two cultures. Beyond the aforementioned soothsaying about the Martin character's paradigm, Pohl's story definitely provides good food for thought about what civilization has done to the Christmas holiday. "The Ghost-Maker" - This story tells the tale of Ehrlich, an anthropologist who seeks revenge after being cast out of the academic community for alleging that magic is real. On his journey, he is able to track down a real magician who, by customs unexplained, gives Ehrlich the means to a powerful magic spell that can conjure ghosts out of the remains of living things. All magic and academia aside, this story's main theme turns out being revenge itself, and Pohl does an excellent job of showing Ehrlich giving himself over to his baser human tendency to 'get even.' I liked the way this story presupposes a subculture of magicians, water-witches, and diabolists that abides by its own codes and ethical guidelines while keeping itself decidedly under the radar from normal humans who would abuse their mystical powers and cause more harm than good.