The Coming Of Vertumnus And Other Stories: Ian Watson

A selection of fabulous Watson shorts. This volume includes: The Coming of Vertumnus - a whimsical commentary on sex, art, and eco-terrorism that twists darkly into frightening speculation on brainwashing via designer drugs; Swimming With The Salmon - a protracted seduction leading to eyebrow-raising thoughts on fish farming and interspecies hybrids; Nanoware Time - Life after death, psi powers, aliens and governmental paranoia meld into a fantastical jaunt through hyper-reality; Virtually Lucid Lucy - a surrealist nightmare of lucid dreaming, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and aliens to the rescue; The Odour of Cocktail Cigarettes - a what-is-reality puzzle set by a composite alien, with advanced technology as the prize; The Tale of Peg And The Brain - an English village where nothing is quite what it seems; Happy Hour - in which an ancient power, now dwelling in an air extractor fan in a country pub, becomes hungry; Looking Down on You - an invisible being is in search of...something; and Life In The Groove - where the universe is imagined as a jukebox... Talk of the Town - Daventry speaks to the youthful narrator.