...and here Brian 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, HOTHOUSE and the epic HELLICONIA TRILOGY displays his unmatched talent for creating tales that illuminate times-to-come with the disconcerting intensity of a cobalt bomb's heat-flash...

Contents:

• The Moment of Eclipse
• The Day We Embarked for Cythera
• Orgy of the Living and the Dying
• Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
• The Village Swindler
• Down the Up Escalation
• That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art...
• Confluence
• Heresies of the Huge God
• The Circulation of the Blood...
• ...And the Stagnation of the Heart
• The Worm That Flies
• Working in the Spaceship Yards
• Swastika!