Table of contentsIntroduction 1988 essay by David G. HartwellHarrison Bergeron 1961 story by Kurt Vonnegut JrForgetfulness 1937 story by John W. Campbell JrSpecial Flight 1939 story by John BerrymanChronopolis 1960 story by J.G. BallardTriceratops 1974 st
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Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars
Collected here for the first time under one cover are the four novels featuring Anthony Burgess's greatest comic creation, the perdurable poet F.X. Enderby. "With the most offhand, scurrilous charm, Burgess illustrates (how Enderby the artist) is the man
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