The Secret of This Book: 20-Odd Stories by Brian Aldiss (HarperCollins UK, October 2, 1995, 0-00-225364-X, £15.99, 334pp, hc, co, cover by Gary Embury)
Collection of more than 20 stories and vignettes— several original—each introduced by a comment, vignette, or anecdote.
- 1 · Common Clay · Brian Aldiss · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1992
- 17 · When a Butcher… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 19 · The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind · Brian Aldiss · ss
read at the ICA, London in aid of “Liberty”, 8 Feb 1994.
- 29 · In the Eighties… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- _29 · Animal Dreams · Brian Aldiss · pm
- _30 · The Dinosaur Archbishop · Brian Aldiss · vi 1982
- _30 · Happiness and Suffering · Brian Aldiss · vi Telegraph Sunday Magazine April 25 1982
- 31 · How the Gates Opened and Closed · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 37 · Almost Everything… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 39 · Headless · Brian Aldiss · ss The Daily Telegraph April 23 1994
- 45 · “The Scullery of Life” · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 47 · Travelling Towards Humbris · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 53 · Every Story… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 55 · If Hamlet’s Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 63 · Many a Young Man… · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 67 · Else the Isle with Calibans · Brian Aldiss · pl New Writing 2 ed. Malcolm Bradbury & Andrew Motion, Minerva, 1993
- 77 · What Happened… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 79 · A Swedish Birthday Present · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 95 · “We must…” · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 97 · Three Moon Enigmas · Brian Aldiss · gp
- _99 · His Seventieth Heaven · Brian Aldiss · ss
- _108 · Rose in the Evening · Brian Aldiss · ss
- _114 · On the Inland Sea · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 119 · Picture a Foreign Country… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 121 · A Dream of Antigone · Brian Aldiss · ss Blue Motel ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1994
- 139 · There Is Good Reason… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 141 · The God Who Slept with Women · Brian Aldiss · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction May 1994
- 179 · Ferdinand Is Not… · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 183 · Evans in His Moment of Glory · Brian Aldiss · ss
- 209 · A Reader Never Sees… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 211 · Horse Meat · Brian Aldiss · nv Interzone #65, November 1992
- 247 · “I Hear You Singing, Sister Dear” · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 249 · An Unwritten Love Note · Brian Aldiss · vi
- 251 · From an Old Notebook:… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 253 · Making My Father Read Revered Writings · Brian Aldiss · ss New Writing 4 ed. A. S. Byatt & Alan Hollinghurst, Vintage, 1995
- 259 · In These Early Days… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 261 · Sitting with Sick Wasps · Brian Aldiss · ss New Writing 4 ed. A. S. Byatt & Alan Hollinghurst, Vintage, 1995
- 265 · Defying Wisdom… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 267 · Becoming the Full Butterfly · Brian Aldiss · nv Interzone #93, March 1995
- 289 · What Follows Is… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 291 · Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life · Brian Aldiss · ss Science Fiction Blues Programme Book by Brian Aldiss, Avernus, 1987
- 297 · Storytelling, All Agree… · Brian Aldiss · ms
- 301 · Her Toes Were Beautiful on the Mountains · Brian Aldiss · gp Universe 2 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Bantam Spectra, 1992, as “Her Toes Were Beautiful on the Hilltops”
- _303 · Another Way Than Death · Brian Aldiss · ss Universe 2 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Bantam Spectra, 1992
- _311 · That Particular Green of Obsequies · Brian Aldiss · ss Universe 2 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Bantam Spectra, 1992
- _318 · The Ancestral Home of Thought · Brian Aldiss · ss Something Else #1, Spring 1980
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