Marvellous collection of 26 stories that Aldiss loosely labels as fantasy.

CONTENTS: Old Hundredth; Day of the Doomed King; The Source; The Village Swindler; The Worm That Flies; The Moment of Eclipse; So Far from Prague; The Day We Embarked for Cythera; Castle Scene with Penitents; The Game with the Big Heavy Ball; Creatures of Apogee; The Small Stones of Tu Fu; Just Back From Java ["The Man Who Saw Cliff Richard"]; A Romance of the Equator; Journey to the Goat Star; The Girl Who Sang; Consolations of Age; The Blue Background; The Plain, the Endless Plain; You Never Asked My Name; Lies!; North Scarning; The Big Question; The Ascent of Humbelstein; How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart; Bill Carter Takes Over;