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Ignorant Armies ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1989; Boxtree, 1993; (as by Brian Craig)
Translated into Polish as: 'Ogrodnik z Parravonu' in Smiech Mrocznych Bog¢w ed. David Pringle, Games Worskhop, 1997 (as by Brian Craig)
The Laughter of the Dark Gods ed. David Pringle, Black Library, 2002 (as by Brian Craig)

Review by Ian Braidwood

A pleasing tale of a boy who develops a fascination for his neighbour's garden. The plot in question is surrounded by a high and impenetrable hedge, which lends it almost as much mystery as the close attention it gets from the local birds.
The boy, Armand, tries all sorts of indirect ways to find out about the garden until he and his friend are invited to view the flowers by the mysterious Monsieur Gruiller...

In the Games Workshop edition, the story is accompanied by a particularly effective drawing by Ian McCaig.

The Gardens of Tantalus [9]

Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions, Borgo Press, March 2008

The Gateway of Eternity [36]

Interzone #139, January 1999 & #140, February 1999

The Gift of the Magi [3]

Interzone #122, August 1997 (as by Francis Amery)
In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Borgo Press, March 2009

Given by the Sun [1]

Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998 (as by S. May Amarinth)

Review by Trent Walters

"Given by the Sun" was the ruler who wasted on himself the last of an elixir that prevented death and thought of himself and his kingdom as invincible.

After their vanquishing by Rome, the people of the kingdom revolted, but the king could not kill himself.

Going to the Dogs [v]

The Drabble Project ed. Rob Meades & David B. Wake, Beccon Publications, 1988

The Golden Fleece [23]

The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Borgo Press, March 2012

Goldilocks 2: This Time It's Personal! [1]

The Seventh Seal #5, April 2002

Gothic Quest [poem]

Entropy (fnz) #2, 1966

The Great Armada [28]

Asimov's Science Fiction April/May 2009

The Great Chain of Being [7]

Future Americas ed. John Helfers, DAW, June 2008
The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Borgo Press, August 2009

The Grey Men [35]

Tales of the Shadowmen 2: Gentlemen of the Night ed. Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press, January 2006
The Shadow of Frankenstein, Black Coat Press, December 2008

The Growth of the House of Usher [9]

Interzone #24, Summer 1988
Ice River (fnz) #4, June 1989
Interzone: The Fourth Anthology ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley, Simon & Schuster (UK), 1989; NEL, 1990
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's, 1989; Robinson, 1989 (as Best New SF 3)
Sexual Chemistry, Simon & Schuster (UK), 1991
Japanese translation in: [Hayakawa] SF Magazine October 1993

Review by Ian Braidwood

Rowland Usher is in the final stages of a debilitating and fatal hereditary disease. He has decided to build a monument to himself and his work, so we find ourselves in a motorised dinghy in the far flung Orinoco delta.
Most of the story is taken up describing the house and the rather unusual way it was made: using bacteria to bind together Orinocean silt, before being hollowed out with genetically engineered insect larvae. However, Rowland has had plenty of time to do other things, including a little tinkering around with larval genes.

The title isn't the only reference to Poe in this tale, which has several echoes from The Fall of the House of Usher, including the narrative style.

This story shares background material with the much later Emortality series and the non - fiction book The Third Millennium, written with David Langford.