In these fantastical, chilling, haungingly nostalgic tales you enter the master storyteller's special world where ... A man can destroy the future by coming out of the past. Two drifters in space search through the dead cities of Mars for the fabled Blue Bottle. A young boy falls in love with a beautiful teacher who can't wait for him to grow up. A jealous husband shoots the perfect android replica of his unfaithful wife and is charged with robot murder. A man journeys back into the past to commit the perfect crime of revenge. Plus sixteen other strange hauntings and celebrations. Contents:

• The Blue Bottle
• One Timeless Spring
• The Parrot Who Met Papa
• The Burning Man
• A Piece of Wood
• The Messiah
• G.B.S. -- Mark V
• The Utterly Perfect Murder
• Punishment Without Crime
• Getting Through Sunday Somehow
• Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds
• Interval in Sunlight
• A Story of Love
• The Wish
• Forever and the Earth
• The Better Part of Wisdom
• Darling Adolf
• The Miracles of Jamie
• The October Game
• The Pumpernickel
• Long After Midnight
• Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!