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Excellent

Shrinking Song
Under the Floor

Excellent fantasy book on fate and if your fate is all prearranged.

Gothic letters and journal entries.

Can one have emotions towards short stories and tales of lies and 2080 futures that reflect a world of planetary distraught. Can the lies we tell others in the bedroom keep the partner locked up? What lessons can we learn from fantasy?
These are the questions Aldiss seems to wrestle with in literature.
Time and love and the joys of sex and food; can words capture these joys.
Lies!
North Scarning - ghost story

In the first 25 pages of poems, Ogden, captures an angry angst towards money and mankind’s dependency on capitalism. He writes of llamas and rhinos in a clever way. Capturing the beauty of raising a child, but not other parents children. Different peaks of view.

The short story You Didn’t even ask my Name was good.

Journey to the Goat Star is a deep thinking short story on the expedition and origins of human thought. Are humans their bodies or are bodies human? Why do we travel on spaceships across the universe; to search for a father that abandoned us at birth, or to discover a beautiful ocean blue mother.

The story The Game With The Big Heavy Ball is an interesting riddle on how life is a game against the odds.
And the story The Small Stones of Tu Fu is a good story about stones, and how inorganic objects without life in a way can still be organized and have order. Every creature organic or inorganic has a purpose and an order to its life.

The short story a castle scene with penitents has some interesting creatures in it. These are birds without feet or legs; they come from a land very few people have seen.