The Moment of Eclipse

First edition
Author	Brian Aldiss
Cover artist	Jerome Gask
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1970
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	215 pp.
ISBN	0-571-09570-4

The Moment of Eclipse is a 1970 collection of science fiction short stories written by Brian Aldiss between 1965 and 1970. It was originally published by Faber & Faber.^[1] In 1972, the collection, in its entirety, received the first BSFA Award for short fiction published in 1970-71.^[2]

Contents

• Poem at a Lunar Eclipse (poem by Thomas Hardy)
• The Moment of Eclipse (1969)
• The Day We Embarked for Cythera . . . (1970)
• Orgy of the Living and the Dying (1970)
• Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)
• The Village Swindler (1968)
• Down the Up Escalation (1967)
• That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art . . . (1969)
• Confluence (1967)
• Heresies of the Huge God (1966)
• The Circulation of the Blood . . . (1966)
• . . . And the Stagnation of the Heart (1968)
• The Worm That Flies (1968)
• Working in the Spaceship Yards (1969)
• Swastika! (1968)
• Acknowledgements (1969)