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Aldiss is one of my favourite writers, but I don’t think this is one of my favourite collections. The best stories here I already knew from other anthologies; the others, including the title story, have mostly not been published elsewhere since they were published here, and generally for good reason. It’s still interesting to appreciate just how much the retreat from Empire affected Britain of Aldiss’s generation, and even the stories that have not stood the test of time have some great turns of phrase in Aldiss’s typically laconic descriptions. So I’m glad I finally got to it, though I suspect I may not pick it up again. ( )

stories include: Comic Inferno, The Underprivileged, Cardiac Arrest, In the Arena, All the World's Tears, Amen and Out, The Soft Predicament, As for our Fatal Continuity, Send her Victorious