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Helliconia Spring

by Brian Aldiss ...

Series series Gateway Essentials
This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental saga which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons .Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic ... Read more

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This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental saga which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons .Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic
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Hothouse

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remainMillions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning—and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become ... Read more

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A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remainMillions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning—and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become
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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

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This collection of nine stories from the Grand Master of Science Fiction charts the course of humanity from the near future onward through millennia.In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and ... Read more

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This collection of nine stories from the Grand Master of Science Fiction charts the course of humanity from the near future onward through millennia.In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and
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Earthworks

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

War is humanity's only hope. " Aldiss' dark vision of collapsing society and withering earth is poignant and brutal . . . [a] richly detailed world" (Science Fiction Ruminations).In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over‑farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex‑convict Knowle Noland, the ... Read more

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War is humanity's only hope. " Aldiss' dark vision of collapsing society and withering earth is poignant and brutal . . . [a] richly detailed world" (Science Fiction Ruminations).In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over‑farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex‑convict Knowle Noland, the
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Greybeard

by Brian Aldiss ...

Series series S.F. MASTERWORKS
'Greybeard is a potent elegy for the human condition ... beautifully observed and written, involving and profound' Adam RobertsEcological disaster has left England a wasteland. Atomic testing in space has got out of hand and slowly the truth dawns: man has introduced sterility in its own kind and humanity faces extinction.In small, shattered communities nature comes into its own, burying the ... Read more

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'Greybeard is a potent elegy for the human condition ... beautifully observed and written, involving and profound' Adam RobertsEcological disaster has left England a wasteland. Atomic testing in space has got out of hand and slowly the truth dawns: man has introduced sterility in its own kind and humanity faces extinction.In small, shattered communities nature comes into its own, burying the
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Life in the West

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

Series Book 1 - The Squire Quartet
First in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with ... Read more

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First in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with
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Hothouse

by Brian Aldiss, Brian Aldiss ...

Series series Penguin Modern Classics
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with ... Read more

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The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with
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White Mars; or, The Mind Set Free

A 21st-Century Utopia

by Brian W. Aldiss, Roger Penrose ...

A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction's most renowned authorsIn the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically ravaged home planet. But when the economy of EUPACUS—Earth's collective industrialized nations—collapses, ... Read more

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A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction's most renowned authorsIn the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically ravaged home planet. But when the economy of EUPACUS—Earth's collective industrialized nations—collapses,
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Enemies of the System

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

In the far future, a group of evolved utopians stranded on an inhospitable planet are unable to resist the reemergence of the human animalOne million years in the future, the universe has become a utopia for the humans inhabiting it. Having evolved into the race homo uniformis—"man alike throughout"—they share a centralized nervous system and know nothing of war, disease, violence, emotion, or any ... Read more

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In the far future, a group of evolved utopians stranded on an inhospitable planet are unable to resist the reemergence of the human animalOne million years in the future, the universe has become a utopia for the humans inhabiting it. Having evolved into the race homo uniformis—"man alike throughout"—they share a centralized nervous system and know nothing of war, disease, violence, emotion, or any
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Non-Stop

by Brian Aldiss ...

Series series S.F. MASTERWORKS
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.When Roy Complain loses his wife, he decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down. Is their ... Read more

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Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.When Roy Complain loses his wife, he decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down. Is their
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Report on Probability A

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitionersMr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them ... Read more

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An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitionersMr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them
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The Saliva Tree

And Other Strange Growths

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

Invisible aliens invade the bucolic English countryside in Brian W. Aldiss's Nebula Award–winning science fiction novella, plus nine other stories of the fantastic and the oddA meteor shower in the skies above the rolling English countryside late in the nineteenth century fires the imagination of a young man with a penchant for science—especially when one of the falling rocks breaks off from the ... Read more

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Invisible aliens invade the bucolic English countryside in Brian W. Aldiss's Nebula Award–winning science fiction novella, plus nine other stories of the fantastic and the oddA meteor shower in the skies above the rolling English countryside late in the nineteenth century fires the imagination of a young man with a penchant for science—especially when one of the falling rocks breaks off from the
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