Mixed bag of short stories hence the three stars. Titular story is by far the most rewarding, others much less so. ( )

Indeholder "Introduction", "The Head and the Hand", "Fire Storm", "Double Consummation", "A Woman Naked", "Transplant", "Breeding Ground", "Sentence in Binary Code", "The Perihelion Man", "The Run", "Real-Time World".

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The reason why I wanted to read these stories was because I knew how seventies they were, but as often when confronted with the reality of what I was looking for, I was disappointed with it. None of the stories were entirely satisfactory and although each was competently written, they were written to formula. You could see they were written to achieve a specific effect and how Priest achieves that effect and as a result most of the effect is lost. The first story for example, "The Head and the Hand", about automutilation as a form of performance art, with some graphic scenes including a final auto-guillotining which may have been shocking when first published, but certainly aren't now and without this shock effect the story falls apart.

More at http://cloggie.org/books/real-time-world.html ( )