'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'

A selection of poetry from the author of If this...

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'

The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more...

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'

Simenon explores the complexity of...

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'

Profane and...

'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'

In these two stories, which have never before been...

Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales...

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'

How does a dog see...

Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.'

Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic...

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.

At once...

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres...

Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an...