Description

This assortment of tales about probable future developments in biotechnology juxtaposes the super-large scale of "Mortimer Gray's History of Death", which encapsulates thousands of years of human history, both past and future, using the personal scale of "Alongside Godliness," in which a social gathering goes wrong, in a style obliquely attached to the psychotropic medication-sections used by all of the visitors. One of the different stories are "Some enjoy it Hot" which handles possible methods, both organic and psychological, for the possibility of global-warming; as the previously-unpublished novella "The Golden Fleece" provides a comparative review of the medical and creative reactions to your normal capability to understand more shades of colour than many people could. All of the tales work on the interface between philosophical potential and natural chance. First rate SF conjecture with a master storyteller.