The Firstborn of Death

<p>Science fiction and fantasy mythology and encounters with the alien.<br> </p><p>From a Neolithic world of drowning islands to an Israeli desert town in the 1960s from the realm of the gods beneath the Earth to a vineyard on Mars these twenty-three stories and poems-some first seen in a variety of speculative magazines and anthologies others appearing here for the first time-bring the numinous the futuristic and the strange face-to-face with the constant truths of the human heart.</p>