The inspiration for this collection of short stories comes from various sources: Russian suburbs, Inter-City travel, credit-card holograms, all humdrum aspects of everyday life--until Ian Watson's strange mind latches onto them...

Contents:

• Stalin's Teardrops
• Gaudi's Dragon
• In the Upper Cretaceous with the Summerfire Brigade
• The Beggars in our Back Yard
• From the Annals of the Onomastic Society
• Lambert, Lambert
• Tales from Weston Willow
• In Her Shoes
• The Human Chicken
• The Case of the Glass Slipper
• The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle
• The Eye of the Ayatollah