it as a character) "Cage of Brass" "High Weir" "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" "Omegahelm" "Among the Blobs" "Tapestry" "Prismatica" "Ruins" "Dog in a Fisherman’s Net" "Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo" Afterword: Of Doubts and Dreams Themes The unifying theme, suggested by the epigraph, is that this is a book in which the science fiction stories are largely about the problems of people who do not live in the city of their birth—who have all come to where they are from somewhere else. The epigraph — on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, from a speaker who clearly has great feeling for the destroyed cities — suggests that his home city has been devastated. In some of the tales, such as the opening story in both books, “The Star-Pit,” the narrator’s family and children have been destroyed in a horrific war many years before and many light years away: a war of a sort, which, in the future the story depicts, has become so common that it would seem to be a background reality gotten through for better or for worse by pretty much everyone who currently survives. And the fantasies, such as “Prismatica,” “Dog in a Fisherman’s Net,” and “Ruins” all deal with the possibilities or the wages of journeying from one's home. References External links Errata page for Aye, and Gomorrah, approved by the author 2003 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Science fiction short story collections Short story collections by Samuel Delany