Heavy Water and Other Stories
Author: Martin Amis
In Martin Amis’s short stories whole worlds are created – or inverted. In ‘Straight Fiction’, everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered ‘straight’ community; in ‘Career Move’, screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in ‘The Janitor of Mars’, a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the….Read More
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