''The Moment of Eclipse'' is a 1970 collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
short stories written by
Brian Aldiss between 1965 and 1970. It was originally published by
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
.
In 1972, the collection, in its entirety, received the first
BSFA Award
The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, m ...
for short fiction published in 1970-71.
[Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 11.]
Contents
* ''Poem at a Lunar Eclipse'' (poem by
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
)
* ''The Moment of Eclipse'' (1969)
* ''The Day We Embarked for Cythera . . .'' (1970)
* ''Orgy of the Living and the Dying'' (1970)
* ''
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
"Supertoys Last All Summer Long" is a science fiction short story by Brian Aldiss, first published in the UK edition of ''Harper's Bazaar'', in its December 1969 issue. The story deals with humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the ac ...
'' (1969)
* ''The Village Swindler'' (1968)
* ''Down the Up Escalation'' (1967)
* ''That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art . . .'' (1969)
* ''Confluence'' (1967)
*
Heresies of the Huge God' (1966)
* ''The Circulation of the Blood . . .'' (1966)
* ''. . . And the Stagnation of the Heart'' (1968)
* ''The Worm That Flies'' (1968)
* ''Working in the Spaceship Yards'' (1969)
* ''Swastika!'' (1968)
* ''Acknowledgements'' (1969)
References
;Notes
;Bibliography
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External links
The Moment of Eclipseon Brian Aldiss's official site
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Science fiction short story collections
1970 short story collections
Faber and Faber books
British short story collections