**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 cr
The Moment of Eclipse: SSC
✍ Scribed by W., Aldiss, Brian
- Publisher
- House of Stratus
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Product Description
The fourteen stories in this mind-blowing collection range from outrageous satire to evocative fantasy, revealing the future with an alarming intensity.
Contents
7 • Poem at a Lunar Eclipse • poem by Thomas Hardy
9 • The Moment of Eclipse • (1969) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
29 • The Day We Embarked for Cythera . . . • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss (aka The Day We Embarked for Cythera)
39 • Orgy of the Living and the Dying • (1970) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
70 • Super-Toys Last All Summer Long • (1969) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
80 • The Village Swindler • (1968) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
93 • Down the Up Escalation • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
102 • That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art . . . • (1969) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss (aka That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art)
108 • Confluence • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
116 • Heresies of the Huge God • (1966) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
129 • The Circulation of the Blood . . . • (1966) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss (aka The Circulation of the Blood)
163 • . . . And the Stagnation of the Heart • (1968) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
177 • The Worm That Flies • (1968) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
197 • Working in the Spaceship Yards • (1969) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
205 • Swastika! • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
215 • Acknowledgements • (1969) • essay by The Publishers
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