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]

The Moment of Eclipse
First edition
AuthorBrian Aldiss
Cover artistJerome Gask
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
1970
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages215 pp.
ISBN0-571-09570-4

Contents

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  • 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

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Notes
  1. ^ Dickinson, Gillian, ed. (June 1971). British Book News. British Council. p. 501. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  2. ^ Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 11.
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