Aye, and Gomorrah

With his award-winning and bestselling novels including Dhalgren and Nova, Samuel R. Delany has established himself as a titan of science fiction. Excepting only the stories in his Return to Neveryon series, Aye, and Gomorrah includes virtually all his science fiction and fantasy of short story length, including the Nebula Award-winning title story and the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones." An anthropologist confronts the remnants of an extinct Martian civilization. A brother's unexpected death compels a Greek fisherman to abandon his island home and volatile gods. A retired spy has a final confrontation with the tyrant who first recruited her. Surgically altered men and women who toil under the sea come up to celebrate on the Brazilian coast. Meticulously written and beautifully structured, these fifteen tales of tomorrow have much to say about today.