Far from Home

His plots are ingenious - Time Out<br/><br/>This long-overdue collection of Walter Tevis' s best short stories proves him to be a master of the form. they range from the ingenuity of The Other End of the Line , in which a man receives a phone call from himself in the future and follows the instructions he is given with unexpected and disastrous results, to the sophistication of Rent Control , where a couple discover that when they are in bed together they can literally make time stop, to the deeply-felt emotion of A Visit from Mother , whose protagonist is revisited by his dead parents.<br/><br/>Entertaining and perceptive, the stories in Far From Home show the same talent which has made Tevis's novels The Man who Fell to Earth and Mockingbird modern SF classics.<br/><br/>The poetic imprints of a fine writer's trail - The Times