The General Zapped an Angel

"The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance
to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories
of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I
have done." (Howard Fast)
Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "The Wrath
of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard
Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining
tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears
to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the
next day's Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a
mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the best-selling
authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators,
and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today.-