Introduction / by Martin Amis

Author's introduction

Prima belladonna

Escapement

The concentration city

Venus smiles

Manhole 69

Track 12

The waiting grounds

Now : zero

The sound-sweep

Zone of terror

Chronopolis

The voices of time

The last world of Mr. Goddard

Studio 5, the stars

Deep end

The overloaded man

Mr. F is Mr. F

Billennium

The gentle assassin

The insane ones

The garden of time

The thousand dreams of Stellavista

Thirteen to Centaurus

Passport to eternity

The cage of sand

The watch-towers

The singing statues

The man on the 99th floor

The subliminal man

The reptile enclosure

A question of re-entry

The time-tombs

Now wakes the sea

The Venus hunters

End-game

Minus one

The sudden afternoon

The screen game

Time of passage

Prisoner of the coral deep

The lost Leonardo

The terminal beach

The illuminated man

The delta at sunset

The drowned giant

The Gioconda of the twilight noon

The volcano dances

The beach murders

The day of forever

The impossible man

Storm-bird, storm-dreamer

Tomorrow is a million years

The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considered as a downhill motor race

Cry hope, cry fury!

The recognition

The cloud-sculptors of Coral D

Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan

The dead astronaut

The Comsat angels

The killing ground

A place and a time to die

Say goodbye to the wind

The greatest television show on earth

My dream of flying to Wake Island

The air disaster

Low-flying aircraft

The life and death of God

Notes towards a mental breakdown

The 60 minute zoom

The smile

The ultimate city

The dead time

The index

The intensive care unit

Theatre of war

Having a wonderful time

One afternoon at Utah Beach

Zodiac 2000

Motel architecture

A host of furious fancies

News from the sun

Memories of the space age

Myths of the near future

Report on an unidentified space station

The object of the attack

Answers to a quesionnaire

The man who walked on the moon

The secret history of World War 3

Love in a colder climate

The enormous space

The largest theme park in the world

War fever

Dream cargoes

A guide to virtual death

The message from Mars

Report from an obscure planet

New stories for the American edition

The secret autobiography of J.G.B.

The dying fall.