Other Edens is a sci fi collection from 1987 and very much from the Interzone period of British imaginative fiction. Some of the most noted writers are respresented - Moorcock, Harrison and Aldiss - but not with their best work. Those who stand out here are those who were then breaking through: Garry Kilworth, who I only knew from Interzone; Lisa Tuttle, who I had heard of but never read; and a couple of others completely new to me, such as Graham Charnock and Keith Roberts.
Roberts' story Piper's Wait was probably my overall favourite, a temenos story stretching very effectively over the ages. Tuttle's The Wound was a close second, a very exciting take on mutable sexuality. Kilworth's Triptych was by far the most radical and complex, a fragmented three-parter positively bursting at the seams with ideas. I am increasingly interested in Kilworth. He seems to have been extraordinarily prolific with over eighty novels spanning many genres, so it shouldn't be too hard to track one down.
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