Previous ed. published in Great Britain as: The complete short stories. London : Flamingo, 2001. Contents: 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.