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Other People

Money

Einstein’s Monsters

London Fields

Time’s Arrow

The Information

Night Train

NONFICTION

Invasion of the Space Invaders

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

About the Author

MARTIN AMIS

Martin Amis’s books include Money, Dead Babies, The Rachel Papers, The Moronic Inferno, Einstein’s Monsters, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, and Night Train. He lives in London.

Copyright

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MARCH 2000

Copyright © 1998 by Martin Amis

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1998, and subsequently in the United States by Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Harmony Books edition as follows:

Amis, Martin.

Heavy water and other stories / Martin Amis.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-78739-2

Contents: Career move—Denton’s death—State of England—Let me count the times—The coincidence of the arts—Heavy water—The janitor on Mars—Straight fiction—What happened to me on my holiday. I. Title.

PR6051.M5H4 1999

823’.914—dc21    98-21779

Author photograph © Quina Fonseca

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