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)
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Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle. Brian Wilson Aldiss was one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. Adored for his innovative literary techniques, evocative plots and irresistible characters, he became a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999. Brian Aldiss died on August 19, 2017, just after celebrating his 92nd birthday with his family and closest friends. Brian W. Aldiss Group on Good Reads
