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The Moment of Eclipse

Brian W. Aldiss

First published May 1969
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A filmmaker forms an erotic attachment to a woman over a period of several years but before he can consummate it he comes to feel that he is inhabited by something moving within his body.

Technically not quite genre, but atmospheric and kind of genre in the protagonist's head. Genre-adjacent.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1969 Cover New Worlds, May 1969 New Worlds Publishing MAGAZINE 4
1970 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Faber and Faber Collection 9
September 1971 Cover Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss Faber and Faber Collection 161
1972 Cover Moment of Eclipse Doubleday Collection 1
July 1972 Cover Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss Faber and Faber Collection
February 1973 Cover L'instant de l'éclipse Denoël Collection 11
November 1973 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 9
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 9
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 9
October 1983 Cover Der Moment der Eklipse Bastei Lübbe Collection 7
1985 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther / Granada Collection 9
July 1989 Cover L'instant de l'éclipse Denoël Collection 11
September 1989 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories Gollancz Collection 76
April 1990 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories Atheneum / Macmillan Collection 76
May 1990 Cover A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories VGSF / Gollancz Collection 76
2000 Cover The Moment of Eclipse House of Stratus Collection 1
April 2002 Cover El Momento del Eclipse Minotauro Collection 7
September 2015 Cover The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4) Harper Voyager (UK) Collection