Getting into Death
{{Short description|Collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch}}
{{ distinguish|Getting into Death and Other Stories}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| name = Getting into Death
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| caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
| author = Thomas M. Disch
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Rupert Hart-Davis
| release_date = 1974
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| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 206
| isbn = 0-246-10614-X
| dewey= 813/.5/4
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Getting into Death is a collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1974. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Transatlantic Review, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Fantastic, New Worlds, The Paris Review and Antæus.
Contents
- "Slaves"
- "The Happy Story"
- "The Asian Shore"
- "The Persistence of Desire"
- "Quincunx"
- "Displaying the Flag"
- "The Beginning of April or the End of March"
- "The Planet Arcadia"
- "The Invasion of the Giant Stupid Dinosaurs"
- "A Kiss Goodbye"
- "[X] Yes"
- "Feathers from the Wings of an Angel"
- "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory"
- "The Colors"
- "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
- The Complete Short Stories
- "The Man Who Understood the Difference Between Salmon and Orange Chiffon"
- "The Extension Cord"
- "Mrs. Gallagher’s Psychoanalysis"
- "The Novelist with Wooden Character"
- "Dawn Breaks Over Crakow"
- "The Tic"
- "What They Do with Mothers-in-Law in Tierra Del Fuego"
- "The Cottonwood Tree"
- "The Golden Lemons"
- "The Page for October Has Been Torn Off"
- "The Romance of the Boy and the Girl"
- "The Man Who Didn’t Doubt It"
- "Gratitude, Or, the Serpent’s Tooth"
- "Happy Families All Like Scrabble"
- "Jessica, Raymond, and Jack"
- "The Pocket from Brooks Brothers"
- "Vapors"
- " A Day in the Life of the Artist"
- "Farewell to the Riviera"
- "The Chocolate Egg"
- "The Unspoken Wish"
- "l’Homme"
- "Mimi Smith"
- "The Soliloquy in the Last Act"
- "The Pearl Necklace,"
- "Getting Into Death"
Sources
- {{cite web
|last = Contento
|first = William G.
|title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
|url = http://contento.best.vwh.net/t37.htm#A796
|accessdate = 2008-01-28
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071222203342/http://contento.best.vwh.net/t37.htm#A796
|archive-date = 2007-12-22
}}
- {{cite web
| title = Internet Speculative Fiction Database
| url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GTTNGNTD1974
| accessdate = 2008-01-28 }}
Category:1974 short story collections