The Terminal Beach
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Trafalgar Square; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: November 20, 1997
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780575401310
Subjects: Modern fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Fiction
First sentence: ALL day they had moved steadily upstream, occasionally pausing to raise the propellor and cut away the knots of weed, and by 3 o'clock had covered some seventy-five miles.
Description: The Terminal Beach is one of the most brilliant collections of short stories by the author of Crash and Empire of the Sun.  It ranges from the title story's disturbing picture of an abandoned atomic testing island in the Pacific to the shocking Oedipal fantasy 'The Gioconda of the Twight Noon'.  At the heart of the stories lies the bitter paradox that the extraordinary creative power of man's imagination is matched only by his reckless instinct for destruction.
Notes: Author lived 1930-2009.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A Question of Re-entry
pagenum: 007; label: 2
title: The Drowned Giant
pagenum: 040; label: 3
title: End-Game
pagenum: 051; label: 4
title: The Illuminated Man
pagenum: 074; label: 5
title: The Reptile Enclosure
pagenum: 105; label: 6
title: The Delta at Sunset
pagenum: 117; label: 7
title: The Terminal Beach
pagenum: 134; label: 8
title: Deep End
pagenum: 156; label: 9
title: The Volcano Dances
pagenum: 169; label: 10
title: Billenium
pagenum: 175; label: 11
title: The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon
pagenum: 192; label: 12
title: The Lost Leonardo
pagenum: 202