If there was one subject that preoccupied Rod Serling, the late creator of The Twilight Zone, it was justice – legal justice, social justice, personal justice, cosmic justice. Rod was my friend, mentor and role model during the last ten years of his all too short life and much of what I became as a writer and as a person is due to his influence. For my entire professional career, I have had a copy of the photo at left, signed to me, hanging on my office wall for inspiration.
Now, all of Serling’s published work is being reissued in a uniform edition in trade paperback and digital form, as a joint venture between Rod Serling Books and CreateSpace Publishing. I am honored that I was asked to write the introduction to one of those books, The Season to be Wary, and here’s why it is an important part of the great man’s oeuvre.