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Slow Birds and Other Stories
| Author: | Ian Watson |
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Grafton, 1987 Gollancz, 1985 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Where do the metal death gliders come from? To the glass-sailors of the five villages the slow birds that inched over the Earth at shoulder height, appearing and vanishing, were a mystery - until young Daniel climbed aboard one of the scarred Missiles and vowed to find out where it went
Ian Watson's third short story collection is his best yet: a brilliant array of original and imaginative inventions that plunge the reader into strangely familiar new worlds.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: In the Hothouse - (1985) - essay
- Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette
- The Width of the World - (1983) - shortstory
- White Socks - (1985) - novelette
- Ghost Lecturer - (1984) - shortstory
- Mistress of Cold - (1984) - shortstory
- In the Mirror of the Earth - (1983) - shortstory
- Cruising - (1983) - shortstory
- Universe on the Turn - (1984) - shortstory
- The Flesh of Her Hair - (1984) - shortstory
- The Mystic Marriage of Salome - (1981) - shortstory
- The Bloomsday Revolution - (1984) - shortstory
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