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story: "The Event Horizon (1976)" - Black Holes and Kundalini!

story: "On Cooking the First Hero in Spring (1975)" - An Alien world with a very strange inhabitants that only communicate, apparently with one single sound. A sociological interesting story.

story: "A Time-Span to Conjure With (1978)" - One of the best story of the collection. A Space Sci-Fi expedition on planet Heaven. You can travel into space and have your little cute camp, future developments, people to inhabit the planet, even if there is a sentient Alien specie already on the planet, they let you stay there... You can trust them. Human mind is really easy to hack... is easy if you don't expect it.

story: "The Roentgen Refugees (1977)" - another inspiring, thoughtful story, a fragment of a postapocalyptic world. Science, Religion and Humans. I love this combination of elements flowing in a fiction that is almost a philosophical conversation.

story: "My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl (1978)" - the title says it all. A really short story about the Soul of the protagonist. a cute and funny story!

story: "Immune Dreams (1978)" - a strange story. Half scientific, half romantic and "smokey". The scientific/medical part is really interesting and transportation is strange and inventive.

story: "Our Loves So Truly Meridional (1974)" - Invisible walls separating Earth! Another highly inspiring and inventive story.

story: "The Girl Who Was Art (1976)" - Another small Japanese style story. This is very Romantic and Decadent with a bitter but good ending. This story is very modern and has great ideas, it's sensual too in a very Japanese way. Finale is a prediction of an artistic form of art that makes perfectly sense now in 2020. In fact there are picture from a famous photographer that depicts the same image. Read it!

story: "Programmed Love Story (1974)" - Queen Bee Cabaret, Tokyo, a Love Story! It's a retro futuristic tale (I just made it up but it came to my mind). what an awesome short story! It feels like an inspiration to Altered Carbon. Anyone should read it.

story; "Agoraphobia, A.D. 2000 (1977)" - A very strange and hidden story. Another Japanese style short and mysterious tale. A sight into a future city from the eyes of an unknown protagonist with a peculiar task.