The Moment of Eclipse
 First edition | |
| Author | Brian Aldiss |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Jerome Gask |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 215 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-571-09570-4 |
The Moment of Eclipse is a 1970 collection of science fiction short stories written by Brian Aldiss between 1965 and 1970. It was originally published by Faber & Faber.[1] In 1972, the collection, in its entirety, received the first BSFA Award for short fiction published in 1970-71.[2]
Contents
[edit]- Poem at a Lunar Eclipse (poem by Thomas Hardy)
- The Moment of Eclipse (1969)
- The Day We Embarked for Cythera . . . (1970)
- Orgy of the Living and the Dying (1970)
- Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)
- The Village Swindler (1968)
- Down the Up Escalation (1967)
- That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art . . . (1969)
- Confluence (1967)
- Heresies of the Huge God (1966)
- The Circulation of the Blood . . . (1966)
- . . . And the Stagnation of the Heart (1968)
- The Worm That Flies (1968)
- Working in the Spaceship Yards (1969)
- Swastika! (1968)
- Acknowledgements (1969)
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Dickinson, Gillian, ed. (June 1971). British Book News. British Council. p. 501. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 11.
- Bibliography
- Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995) [1993]. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 1386. ISBN 978-0-312-13486-0.
External links
[edit]- The Moment of Eclipse on Brian Aldiss's official site
- The Moment of Eclipse title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database