Heavy Water And Other Stories Author:Martin Amis This collection of Martin Amis's short stories is frankly entertaining in its satirical take on the human condition in modern times. Whole worlds are created--or inverted. In "Straight Fiction" everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered "straight" community); in "Career Moves" screenwriters submit their works to little magazines and poets are f... more »lown first-class to Los Angeles. In "The Janitor on Mars" a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. And in "Let Me Count the Times", where a man has a passionate affair with himself, the middle class gets spoofed.
Heavy Water and Other Stories demonstrates Martin Amis's stylistic brilliance with nine stories that are witty, funny, and sardonic. The earliest story, "Denton's Death", was first published in 1975, but the bulk of the collection can be firmly labeled his most recent work.« less