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The Eye of the Lens

Langdon Jones

First published April 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Three sections: "The Hall of Machines" is a Kafkaesque/Borgesian description of an enormous hall filled with exotic machines and a detailed description of each. In "The Coming of the Sun" a man sets fire to a building and the event is then described from various points of view outside the building. "The Eye of the Lens" describes an impressionistic film pondering life, death, and rebirth.

Novelette "The Eye of the Lens" is a concatenation of three short stories, "The Hall of Machines", "The Coming of the Sun", and "The Eye of the Lens." Each is subtitled as a section in the novelette, and each contains subsubsections.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1970 Cover Best S.F. Stories from New Worlds 6 Panther Anthology 31
July 1971 Cover The Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 Berkley Medallion Anthology 30
September 1983 Cover New Worlds: An Anthology Flamingo / Fontana Paperbacks Anthology 101
September 2004 Cover New Worlds: An Anthology Thunder's Mouth Press Anthology 82