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PUBLISHER: Orion Publishing Co

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780575118287

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
December 13, 2012

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The Caltraps of Time

David I. Masson

The Caltraps of Time is David I. Masson’s only published book of fiction, a collection of short stories, most of which made their first appearance in New Worlds SF during the 1960s under the legendary editorship of Michael Moorcock. An apocalyptic battle at the edge of the unknown, the deadly fascination of voracious magma, a world where the weather expresses itself as mood. These are only some of the themes tackled with superb scientific speculation by David I. Masson.

David I. Masson

David I. Masson (1915 – 2007) David Irvine Masson was born in Edinburgh from a distinguished family of academics and thinkers. Although his output was small and consisted entirely of short stories, he gained a reputation as a writer of vigorous experimental SF. All of his short science fiction is published in the collection The Caltraps of Time. He died in Leeds in 2007.

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