Getting into Death

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name = Getting into Death
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Thomas M. Disch
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Rupert Hart-Davis
release_date = 1974
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 206 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-246-10614-X
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"Getting into Death" is a collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1974. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines "Transatlantic Review", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Amazing Stories", "Fantastic", "New Worlds", "The Paris Review" and "Antæus".

Contents

* "Slaves"
* "The Happy Story"
* "The Asian Shore"
* "The Persistence of Desire"
* "Quincunx"
* "Displaying the Flag"
* "The Beginning of April or the End of March"
* "The Planet Arcadia"
* "The Invasion of the Giant Stupid Dinosaurs"
* "A Kiss Goodbye"
* " [X] Yes"
* "Feathers from the Wings of an Angel"
* "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory"
* "The Colors"
* "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
* The Complete Short Stories
** "The Man Who Understood the Difference Between Salmon and Orange Chiffon"
** "The Extension Cord"
** "Mrs. Gallagher’s Psychoanalysis"
** "The Novelist with Wooden Character"
** "Dawn Breaks Over Crakow"
** "The Tic"
** "What They Do with Mothers-in-Law in Tierra Del Fuego"
** "The Cottonwood Tree"
** "The Golden Lemons"
** "The Page for October Has Been Torn Off"
** "The Romance of the Boy and the Girl"
** "The Man Who Didn’t Doubt It"
** "Gratitude, Or, the Serpent’s Tooth"
** "Happy Families All Like Scrabble"
** "Jessica, Raymond, and Jack"
** "The Pocket from Brooks Brothers"
** "Vapors"
** " A Day in the Life of the Artist"
** "Farewell to the Riviera"
** "The Chocolate Egg"
** "The Unspoken Wish"
** "l’Homme"
** "Mimi Smith"
** "The Soliloquy in the Last Act"
** "The Pearl Necklace,"
* "Getting Into Death"

References

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