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Slow Birds: And Other Stories

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29th September 2011

Price: £2.99

Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9780575114777

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Where do the metal death gliders come from? To the glass-sailors of the five villages the slow birds that inched over the Earth at shoulder height, appearing and vanishing, were a mystery – until young Daniel climbed aboard one of the scarred Missiles and vowed to find out where it went

Ian Watson’s third short story collection is his best yet: a brilliant array of original and imaginative inventions that plunge the reader into strangely familiar new worlds.