Common clay : [electronic resource] 20 odd stories / Brian W. Aldiss ; illustrations by Rosamund Chorley & Brian Aldiss.

Common clay -- The mistakes, miseries and misfortunes of mankind -- How the gates opened and closed -- Headless -- Travelling towards humbris -- If Hamlet's Uncle had been a nicer guy -- Else the isle with calibans -- A Swedish birthday present -- Three moon engimas: His seventieth heaven -- Rose in the evening -- On the Inland Sea -- A dream of antigone -- The God who slept with women -- Evans in his moment of glory -- Horse meat -- An unwritten love note -- Making my father read revend writings -- Sitting with sick wasps -- Becoming the full butterfly -- Traveller, traveller, seek your wife in the forests of this life -- Her toes were beautiful on the mountains: Another way than death -- That particular green of obsequies -- The ancestral home of thought.

Twenty-three stories on such subjects as The God Who Slept with Women and The Mistakes, Miseries, and Misfortunes of Mankind. The story, Making My Father Read Revered Writings, is on the different way people interpret what they read. By the author of A Tupolev Too Far.