J Merril 1959 recs: P J Farmer, C G Finney & C L Fontenay

We here at MPorcius Fiction Log are exploring 1959 speculative fiction, and we've got a map to guide us, a map drawn by that Trotskyist cheerleader of the New Wave, Judith Merril. The map comes from the back of Merril's fifth Year's Best anthology, where lies a long list, alphabetically organized, of Honorable Mentions. Of course, I am not making every stop on the map; today, as we travel through the "F" district, I'm skipping the story by Howard Fast, "Cold, Cold Box," because I read it ten years ago (and pronounced it "lame.") But we'll check out Philip Jose Farmer's "Alley Man," Charles G. Finney's "The Gilashrikes," and Charles L. Fontenay's "Wind." To read along, click the links in the previous sentence to be whisked away to scans of the famous science fiction magazines in which these stories first came under the gaze of SF fans back in the twilight of the 1950s."The Alley Man" by Philip Jose FarmerI recently purchased a copy of the 1962 Farmer collection The Alley God because I…