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First thought: Thom Gunn, ‘Thoughts on Unpacking’. ‘I realise,’ he ends, ‘that love is an arranging.’ No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: ‘The world might change… Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking.’ And then I think of ‘Breakfast Song’, another Elizabeth Bishop poem we’re lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahon’s ‘Monochrome’. Of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Skunk’. Even Matt Healy’s ‘Somebody Else’ (as good as Dylan’s ‘Idiot Wind’). â�...

Starfog The introduction is not quite correct, in that the reader can find resonances between stories, sometimes in stories back-to-back. There are plenty of threads, and a fan of Anderson and his Nordic viewpoint might call it a skein, a tangled skein of fictional ideas, themes, ideas and characters. The same introduction notes that a lot of the furniture of science fiction can be found in early forms here, as Anderson being one of those authors who have made them what they were for successive writers. In many cases, then, it is not the freshness of the ideas that one reads these stories for...

Starfog The introduction is not quite correct, in that the reader can find resonances between stories, sometimes in stories back-to-back. There are plenty of threads, and a fan of Anderson and his Nordic viewpoint might call it a skein, a tangled skein of fictional ideas, themes, ideas and characters. The same introduction notes that a lot of the furniture of science fiction can be found in early forms here, as Anderson being one of those authors who have made them what they were for successive writers. In many cases, then, it is not the freshness of the ideas that one reads these stories for...