Blood and Burning

Science fiction begins, wrote Algis J. Budrys, where unreality leaves off. In these unforgettable stories Budrys creates an alien but familiar world stripped of the lies of everyday life: a world where cannibalism is a medical, not an ethical problem; where 'not-dying' is the alternative to both life and death; where the last man on Earth dances in hideous and exquisite joy.