Stars of Albion is an attempt to compile stories that show how british writers are at ease in all facets of their idiom, from Ian Watson's startling recapitulation of nineteenth-century prose in To the Pump Room with Jane to the jaunty style of Bob Shaw's The Giaconda Caper , an account of the discovery of certain disgraceful occurrences in Leonardo da Vinci's studio. Contents: - Introduction by Robert Holdstock - Sober noises of morning in a marginal land (1971) by Brian W. Aldiss - A place and a time to die (1969) by J.G. Ballard - The Giaconda Caper (1976) by Bob Shaw - The Vitanuls (1967) by John Brunner - Whores (1978) by Christopher Priest - Warlord of Earth (1978) by David S. Garnett - The time beyond age: A journey (1976) by Robert Holdstock - Dormant soul (1969) by Josephine Saxton - The radius riders (1962) by Barrington J. Bayley (as by P.F. Woods) - Traveller's Rest (1965) by David I. Masson - To the Pump Room with Jane (1975) by Ian Watson - Weihnachtsabend (1972) by Keith Roberts - Afterword by Christopher Priest Cover illustration by Bob Norrington