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The light fantastic

Kingsley Amis

1971 · Charles Scribner's Sons

American Science fictionEnglish Science fiction

About this book

The muse / by Anthony Burgess -- The unsafe deposit box / by Gerald Kersh -- Something strange / by Kingsley Amis -- Sold to Satan / by Mark Twain -- The end of the party / by Graham Greene -- The circular ruins / by Jorge Luis Borges -- The shout / by Robert Graves -- The door / by E.B. White -- The machine stops / by E.M. Forster -- The Mark Gable Foundation / by Leo Szilard -- The enormous radio / by John Cheever -- The finest story in the world / by Rudyard Kipling -- The Shoddy Lands / by C.S. Lewis

Who this is for

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Quiet, observational, and lightly philosophical — the prose is the point. Best for readers who already enjoy literary fiction and aren't reading for plot. Frustrates anyone expecting clear stakes.

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A prose-driven with strong ideas, awestruck and foreign read.

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