Martin Amis 
Heavy Water And Other Stories 

In Martin Amis”s short stories whole worlds are created – or inverted. In ”Straight Fiction”, everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered ”straight” community; in ”Career Move”, screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in ”The Janitor of Mars”, a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. In ”Let Me Count the Times” a man has a mad affair with himself. ”Heavy Water”, portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and ”State of England” its weird resuscitation. And in ”The Coincidence of the Arts” an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.