The Moment of Eclipse

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The Moment of Eclipse is a 1970 collection of science fiction short stories written by Brian Aldiss between 1965 and 1970. It was originally published by Faber & Faber.^[1] In 1972, the collection, in its entirety, received the first BSFA Award for short fiction published in 1970-71.^[2]

Contents

Poem at a Lunar Eclipse (poem by Thomas Hardy)
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 (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

^ Dickinson, Gillian, ed. (June 1971). British Book News. British Council. p. 501. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 11.

Bibliography

Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995) [1993]. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 1386. ISBN 978-0-312-13486-0.

External links

The Moment of Eclipse on Brian Aldiss's official site
The Moment of Eclipse title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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BSFA Award for the Best Short Fiction

1969–1979

The Moment of Eclipse by Brian W. Aldiss (1970)
The Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison (1978)
"Palely Loitering" by Christopher Priest (1979)

1980–1989

"The Brave Little Toaster" by Thomas M. Disch (1980)
"Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock (1981)
"Kitemaster" by Keith Roberts (1982)
"After-Images" by Malcolm Edwards (1983)
"The Unconquered Country" by Geoff Ryman (1984)
"Cube Root" by David Langford (1985)
"Kaeti and the Hangman" by Keith Roberts (1986)
"Love Sickness" by Geoff Ryman (1987)
"Dark Night in Toyland" by Bob Shaw (1988)
"In Translation" by Lisa Tuttle (1989)

1990–1999

"The Original Doctor Shade" by Kim Newman (1990)
"Bad Timing" by Molly Brown (1991)
"Innocent" by Ian McDonald (1992)
"The Ragthorn" by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (1993)
"The Double Felix" by Paul di Filippo (1994)
"The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires" by Brian Stableford (1995)
"A Crab Must Try" by Barrington J. Bayley (1996)
"War Birds" by Stephen Baxter (1997)
"La Cenerentola" by Gwyneth Jones (1998)
"Hunting the Slarque" by Eric Brown (1999)

2000–2009

"The Suspect Genome" by Peter F. Hamilton (2000)
"Children of Winter" by Eric Brown (2001)
"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman (2002)
"The Wolves in the Walls" by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (2003)
"Mayflower II" by Stephen Baxter (2004)
"Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link (2005)
"The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (2006)
"Lighting Out" by Ken MacLeod (2007)
"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (2008)
"The Beloved Time of Their Lives" by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia (2009)

2010–current

"The Ship Maker" by Aliette de Bodard (2010)
"The Copenhagen Interpretation" by Paul Cornell (2011)
"Adrift on the Sea of Rains" by Ian Sales (2012)
"Spin" by Nina Allan (2013)
"The Honey Trap" by Ruth E. J. Booth (2014)
"Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard (2015)
"Liberty Bird" by Jaine Fenn (2016)
"The Enclave" by Anne Charnock (2017)

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