Most of these ten stories
belong to a loosely-knit series tracking the potential effects of
possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global
society.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Siren Song of Sexuality by Brian Stableford
La Belle Dame sans Merci (poem) by John Keats
One of Cleopatra's Nights by Théophile Gautier
The Metamorphoses of the Vampire (poem) by Charles P. Baudelaire
Morella by Edgar Allan Poe
Dolores (poem) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arachne by Marcel Schwob
The Daughter of Herodias (poem) by Arthur W. O'Shaughnessy
Amour Dure by Vernon Lee
Poisoning the Sea by Storm Constantine
Salomé by Brian Stableford
Singing Underwater by Robert Irwin
Doctor Pinter in the Mythology Isles by Barrington J. Bayley
The Woman in the Mirror
by Brian Stableford & Craig A. Mackintosh
Blue Alice by Steve Rasnic Tem
Self-Sacrifice by Brian Stableford
The Glamour by Thomas Ligotti
Mrs Vail by Kim Newman
Brody Loved the Masai Woman by Ian McDonald
Cover by Lynette Hemmant
Published by Dedalus in February 1992
ISBN: 0-946626-77-4
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