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ISBN 1-58715-383-1
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The Great Short Fiction of Barrington Bayley
Nine brilliant stories of infinite space and alien consciousness, suffused
with a sense of wonder...
Contents:
The Exploration of Space
The Bees of Knowledge
Exit from City 5
Me and My Antronoscope
All the King's Men
An Overload
Mutation Planet
The Problem of Morley's Emission
The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor
Recently listed as one of Michael Moorcock's Top Ten SF books. Read the Guardian article here.
"A fine intellectual writer, Bayley is here sharper and more substantial
than Borges." - Mike Moorcock
"..perhaps the most significant work BJB produced in the 1970s was in short
fiction, most of it collected [here], a remarkable (though astonishingly
bleak) assembly of experiments in the carrying of story ideas to the end of
their tether."
- John Clute
"[Knights Of The Limits] makes astonishing reading. It reminds one that the
power of British New Wave was not due to its decalcifying treatment of sex
or the fact that much of its readership was stoned. Those ephemera blew away
with the hash fumes over Ladbroke Grove. What is left is sheer visionary
intensity, which Bayley has always had and displays today even more
vigorously."
- Bruce Sterling
"The cream of Bayley's short fiction... complex, innovative, bold and
striking."
- Brian Stableford, Vector
"These stories have all the distinguishing marks of Bayley's novels:
typically a tightly controlled society is shattered by some technological or
scientific development. [...] the ideas are the thing, and Bayley has more
of them than almost anybody else."
- David Pringle