Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories
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Overview:
- Title: Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories
- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
- Year: 1996
- ISBN-10: 0312139489
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Price: $24.95
- Pages: 334
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The God Who Slept with Women
- Notes:
- "First U.S. edition: March 1996" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
- First published in Great Britain under the title The Secret of This Book by HarperCollins (1995).
- Cover titled Common Clay: 20 Odd Stories without the dash that is on the title page. The missing dash implies that there are twenty stories which are "odd". With the dash, it means that there about 20 stories in the book. The following note explains why the dash should be in the title.
- There are 19 stories if the two groups of three-story enigmas are counted as one story each, and 23 stories if each of the enigmas parts are counted separately.
- There are 19 interior illustrations of about one-quarter page size which serve as headers for each story. Rosamund Chorley and Brian Aldiss are credited on the title page. There is no middle initial in Aldiss's credit.
- There is linking material between each story, which reflects on the preceding story, the forthcoming story, both, or neither.
- An acknowledgement page states that "Three Moon Enigmas" was published in the May 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. It was not.