The Moment of Eclipse
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The Moment of Eclipse is a 1970 collection of science fiction
short stories written by Brian Aldiss
between 1965 and 1970. The collection in its entirety received in 1972 the first BSFA Award
for short fiction published in 1970-71.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
short stories written by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
between 1965 and 1970. The collection in its entirety received in 1972 the first BSFA Award
BSFA award
The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association to honor works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members...
for short fiction published in 1970-71.
Contents
- Poem at a Lunar Eclipse (poem by Thomas HardyThomas HardyThomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
) - 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 LongSuper-Toys Last All Summer Long"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" is a short story by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss, first published in 1969. The story deals with humanity in an age of intelligent machines, and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future where child creation is controlled.- Plot :The...
(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)