Fourteen delightfully fresh and poetic short stories make up the earliest collection of Britain's premier science fiction writer. Among these stylish tales: A girl who dances blissfully into a bizarre kind of extinction? A man's conversation with his unborn child? The peace of a Cambridge evening disrupted by Frankenstein's monster army? The horror of a war with ultra-sonic weapons? This stunning experience exemplifies man and his industrial feats against a far greater force: Nature.