β Scribed by Brian W. Aldiss
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
There's No Time Like the Future...
... and here Brian W. Aldiss proves it brilliantly in fourteen stories of devastating power. From outrageous satire to haunting fantasy, the renowned author of such science fiction classics as Greybeard and Hothouse displays his unmatched talent for creating tales that illuminate times-to-come with the disconcerting intensity of a cobalt bomb's heat-flash...
Perhaps his best short story collection for a long while - Michael Moorcock
Weird, solid tales treated with polish and intelligence - Sunday Express
Cover illustration: Peter Goodfellow
Contents:
The Moment of Eclipse (1969)
The Day We Embarked for Cythera... (1970)
Orgy of the Living and the Dying (1970)
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)
The Village Swindler (1968)
Down the Up Escalation (1967)
That Uncomfortable Pause between Life and Art... (1969)
Confluence (1967)
Heresies of the Huge God (1966)
The Circulation of the Blood... (1966)
...And the Stagnation of the Heart (1968)
The Worm That Flies (1968)
Working in the Spaceship Yards (1969)
Swastika! (1970)
Library : Science Fiction
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780586037768
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