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}