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Alternate Title: | Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories |
Author: | Brian W. Aldiss |
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St. Martin's Press, 1996 HarperCollins UK, 1995 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
A collection of inter-related short stories with the themes of life, death and transformation. The stories are sometimes domestic, sometimes startling or horrifying and sometimes telling of the disastrous human traits which make life hell.
Contents:
- Common Clay
- The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind
- How the Gates Opened and Closed
- Headless
- Travelling Towards Humbris
- If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy
- Else the Isle with Calibans
- A Swedish Birthday Present
- His Seventieth Heaven
- Rose in the Evening
- On the Inland Sea
- A Dream of Antigone
- The God Who Slept With Women
- Evans in His Moment of Glory
- Horse Meat
- An Unwritten Love Note
- Making My Father Read Revered Writings
- Sitting With Sick Wasps
- Becoming the Full Butterfly
- Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life
- Another Way Than Death
- That Particular Green of Obsequies
- The Ancestral Home of Thought
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