Gravity's Angel (Paperback)

Aliens who absorb the memories of those they've slain, magicians slugging it out in present-day Philadelphia, and Janis Joplin reborn as an obsessed-over saint in a barbarous post-technological U.S: these are a few of the motifs from one of science fiction's modern masters.

Gravity's Angels collects such classics as
-- "The Feast of Saint Janis", his debut story
-- "Mummer Kiss", in which a nuclear meltdown causes a worldwide depression
-- "The Transmigration of Philip K", a tribute/pastiche of another genre great
-- "The Edge of the World", which posits a flat earth otherwise very much like our own