Getting into Death and Other Stories

Getting into Death and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

stories by Thomas M. Disch

Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W...

. It was first published by Knopf in 1976. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines New Worlds
New Worlds (magazine)
New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. For 25 years it was widely considered the leading science fiction magazine in Britain, publishing 201 issues up to 1971...

, Antæus
Antaeus (magazine)
Antaeus was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles and edited by Daniel Halpern. It was originally published in Tangier, Morocco, but operations were later shifted to New York City. The first number appeared in the summer of 1970, the final issue in 1994...

, The Paris Review, Transatlantic Review
Transatlantic Review
Transatlantic Review was a literary journal founded and edited by Joseph F. McCrindle in 1959, and published at first in Rome, then London and New York...

and Fantastic
Fantastic (magazine)
Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by Ziff-Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories. Early sales were good, and Ziff-Davis quickly decided to switch Amazing from pulp format to digest, and to cease...

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"Apollo"
"The Asian Shore"
"The Birds"
"The Colors"
"Death and the Single Girl"
"Displaying the Flag"
"Feathers from the Wings of an Angel"
"Getting Into Death"
"The Joycelin Shrager Story"
"Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory"
"The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
"The Persistence of Desire"
"The Planet Arcadia"
"Quincunx"
"Slaves"
"[X] Yes"

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