''Getting into Death'' is a collection of
science fiction
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stories by
Thomas M. Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nomination ...
. It was first published by
Rupert Hart-Davis
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999) was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer, he is remembered for his ''Hugh Walpole'' (1952), as an editor, f ...
in 1974. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines ''
Transatlantic Review
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'', ''
Fantasy and Science Fiction
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'', ''
Amazing Stories
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'', ''
Fantastic
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'', ''
New Worlds
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'', ''
The Paris Review
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'' and ''
Antæus''.
Contents
* "Slaves"
* "The Happy Story"
* "The Asian Shore"
* "The Persistence of Desire"
* "Quincunx"
* "Displaying the Flag"
* "The Beginning of April or the End of March"
* "The Planet Arcadia"
* "The Invasion of the Giant Stupid Dinosaurs"
* "A Kiss Goodbye"
* "
Yes"
* "Feathers from the Wings of an Angel"
* "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory"
* "The Colors"
* "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
* The Complete Short Stories
** "The Man Who Understood the Difference Between Salmon and Orange Chiffon"
** "The Extension Cord"
** "Mrs. Gallagher’s Psychoanalysis"
** "The Novelist with Wooden Character"
** "Dawn Breaks Over Crakow"
** "The Tic"
** "What They Do with Mothers-in-Law in Tierra Del Fuego"
** "The Cottonwood Tree"
** "The Golden Lemons"
** "The Page for October Has Been Torn Off"
** "The Romance of the Boy and the Girl"
** "The Man Who Didn’t Doubt It"
** "Gratitude, Or, the Serpent’s Tooth"
** "Happy Families All Like Scrabble"
** "Jessica, Raymond, and Jack"
** "The Pocket from Brooks Brothers"
** "Vapors"
** " A Day in the Life of the Artist"
** "Farewell to the Riviera"
** "The Chocolate Egg"
** "The Unspoken Wish"
** "l’Homme"
** "Mimi Smith"
** "The Soliloquy in the Last Act"
** "The Pearl Necklace,"
* "Getting Into Death"
Sources
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*{{cite web
, title = Internet Speculative Fiction Database
, url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GTTNGNTD1974
, accessdate = 2008-01-28
1974 short story collections
Short story collections by Thomas M. Disch
Rupert Hart-Davis books