TY - BOOK AU - Priest, Christopher, TI - Episodes: short stories SN - 9781473226005 : (hbk.) U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Gollancz KW - Science fiction, English KW - Short stories N1 - First -- The head and the hand -- A dying fall -- I, Haruspex -- Palely loitering -- An infinite summer -- The ament -- The invisible men -- The stooge -- futouristic.co.uk -- Shooting an episode -- The sorting out -- Last N2 - A collection of the best of Christopher Priest's short fiction, spanning four decades of eerie, affecting, emotional work. Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both S[cience] F[iction] and literary fiction at word today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing. ER -