Somewhere East of Life

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Brian Aldiss. Somewhere East of Life

Somewhere East of Life

Brian Aldiss. Somewhere East of Life

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. Friends in Sly Places

2. Murder in a Cathedral

3. Bishops Linctus

4. FOAM

5. Some Expensive Bullets

6. Soss City

7 ‘The Dead One’

8. Looking for a Postcard

9. A Head Among the Throng

10 ‘Time Had Run Out’

11 ‘The Madonna of Futurity’

12. A Crowded Stage

13. Richard and Blanche

14. In the Korean Fast Foot

15. Makhtumkuli Day

16. Burnell Speaks!

17. Glimpse of Airing Cupboard

18. The Friendship Bridge

19. A Toe and a Tow

20. PRICC Strikes

21. Subterfuge

22. A Brief Discourse on Justice

23. To the Krasnovodsk Station

24. Singing in the Train

25. Snow in the Desert

26. The Executioner

27. Squire Ad Libs

28. Open to the Public

29 ‘Newcastle’

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

The Squire Quartet

Copyright

About the Publisher

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THE SQUIRE QUARTET

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories, many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss Collection.

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He set the newspaper aside to gaze vacantly at the window. He admitted to himself he was feeling lonely. Blanche would be back in Madrid by now. Perhaps one of her many friends would have met her. She moved in cultivated circles. He looked at the photograph of his ex-wife on his bedside table, without seeing it. He just moved in circles.

In the afternoon, he visited Remenyi, still silent in his coma, and read to him as usual.

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