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Down the Up Escalation

Brian W. Aldiss

First published 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A publisher suffers a heart attack and has visions of his father speaking of WWII, of children fated to die in the Vietnam War for whom he can trade his life, and other things.

First published in The London Magazine, February 1967.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1970 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Faber and Faber Collection 93
October 1971 Cover The New Tomorrows Belmont Books Anthology 199
1972 Cover Moment of Eclipse Doubleday Collection 93
1973 Cover The New Tomorrows Belmont Tower Anthology 199
February 1973 Cover L'instant de l'éclipse Denoël Collection 107
November 1973 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 82
January 1976 Cover Galassia, #211 Casa Editrice La Tribuna MAGAZINE 59
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 82
1979 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther Collection 82
October 1983 Cover Der Moment der Eklipse Bastei Lübbe Collection 99
1985 Cover The Moment of Eclipse Panther / Granada Collection 82
July 1989 Cover L'instant de l'éclipse Denoël Collection 107
2000 Cover The Moment of Eclipse House of Stratus Collection 84
April 2002 Cover El Momento del Eclipse Minotauro Collection 102
September 2015 Cover The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4) Harper Voyager (UK) Collection