For the first time, the complete collected short stories of the author of Empire of the Sun, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes have been collected into one volume, providing an opportunity to review the career of one of Britain's greatest writers.
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| Introduction | |
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| Prima Belladonna | |
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| Escapement | |
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| The Concentration City | |
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| Venus Smiles | |
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| Manhole 69 | |
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| Track 12 | |
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| The Waiting Grounds | |
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| Now: Zero | |
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| The Sound-Sweep | |
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| Zone of Terror | |
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| Chronopolis | |
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| The Voices of Time | |
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| The Last World of Mr. Goddard | |
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| Studio 5, The Stars | |
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| Deep End | |
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| The Overloaded Man | |
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| Mr. F. is Mr. F. | |
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| Billennium | |
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| The Gentle Assassin | |
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| The Insane Ones | |
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| The Garden of Time | |
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| The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista | |
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| Thirteen to Centaurus | |
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| Passport to Eternity | |
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| The Cage of Sand | |
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| The Watch-Towers | |
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| The Singing Statues | |
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| The Man on the 99th Floor | |
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| The Subliminal Man | |
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| The Reptile Enclosure | |
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| A Question of Re-Entry | |
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| The Time-Tombs | |
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| Now Wakes the Sea | |
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| The Venus Hunters | |
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| End-Game | |
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| Minus One | |
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| The Sudden Afternoon | |
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| The Screen Game | |
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| Time of Passage | |
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| Prisoner of the Coral Deep | |
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| The Lost Leonardo | |
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| The Terminal Beach | |
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| The Illuminated Man | |
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| The Delta at Sunset | |
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| The Drowned Giant | |
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| The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon | |
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| The Volcano Dances | |
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| The Beach Murders | |
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| The Day of Forever | |
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| The Impossible Man | |
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| Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer | |
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| Tomorrow is a Million Years | |
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| The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race | |
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| Cry Hope, Cry Fury! | |
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| The Recognition | |
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| The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D | |
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| Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan | |
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| The Dead Astronaut | |
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| The Comsat Angels | |
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| The Killing Ground | |
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| A Place and a Time to Die | |
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| Say Goodbye to the Wind | |
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| The Greatest Television Show on Earth | |
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| My Dream of Flying to Wake Island | |
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| The Air Disaster | |
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| Low-Flying Aircraft | |
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| The Life and Death of God | |
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| Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown | |
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| The 60 Minute Zoom | |
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| The Smile | |
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| The Ultimate City | |
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| The Dead Time | |
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| The Index | |
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| The Intensive Care Unit | |
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| Theatre of War | |
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| Having a Wonderful Time | |
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| One Afternoon at Utah Beach | |
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| Zodiac 2000 | |
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| Motel Architecture | |
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| A Host of Furious Fancies | |
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| News from the Sun | |
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| Memories of the Space Age | |
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| Myths of the Near Future | |
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| Report on a Unidentified Space Station | |
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| The Object of the Attack | |
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| Answers to a Questionnaire | |
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| The Man Who Walked on the Moon | |
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| The Secret History of World War 3 | |
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| Love in a Colder Climate | |
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| The Enormous Space | |
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| The Largest Theme Park in the World | |
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| War Fever | |
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| Dream Cargoes | |
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| A Guide to Virtual Death | |
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| The Message from Mars | |
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| Report from an Obscure Planet | |
