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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-246-10614-X

Originally published
  
1974

Publisher
  
Rupert Hart-Davis

OCLC
  
961143

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Publication date
  
1974

Pages
  
206 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.5/4

Author
  
Thomas M. Disch

Country
  
United Kingdom

Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Thomas M Disch books, Science Fiction books

Getting into Death is a collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1974. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Transatlantic Review, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Fantastic, New Worlds, The Paris Review 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"
  • "[X] 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"

    • References

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