Indeholder "The Very Slow Time Machine", "Thy Blood Like Milk", "Sitting on a Starwood Stool", "Agoraphobia, A. D. 2000", " Programmed Love Story", "The Girl Who Was Art", "Our Loves So Truly Meridional", "Immune Dreams", "My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl", "The Roentgen Refuges", "A Time-Span to Conjure With", "On Cooking the First Hero in Spring", "The Event Horizon".

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A collection of short stories. At worst, they lean towards well-executed gimmicks or dance around exploitation; at best they are brilliant twists on conventional science fiction. What if a time machine appeared in your lab, and sat there for decades with a trapped occupant? ( )

A reverse gear is a wonderful idea for a time machine, and this story explains why. Of course the traveler could have been an imprisoned criminal...... ( )

A collection of science fiction stories from the 1970s. It's hard to know quite what to make of these. Most of them are a bizarre combination of really clever and imaginative SF ideas, oddball mysticism, and flat-out nonsense, written in a style that I'm not at all sure how to describe. I want to use words like "oblique" and "dreamy," but I don't know that that really captures it at all. In their own way, all of the stories are interesting, but very few of them are anything remotely approaching satisfying, and by the time I got to the end I was feeling a little frustrated with the whole thing. It's possible that keeping the reader feeling unsettled and uncertain is partly the point, but if so, well, I've seen it done to much better effect. And yet, several of these stories seem to really almost have... something. I'm just not remotely sure what. ( )