A black comedy from science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss. Set in the near future, this picaresque tale follows the travels of architectural historian Roy Burnell, whose task it is to move around the more outrageous parts of the globe, trying to hold what's left of the world together culturally.

Somewhere East of Life

Literature & Fiction

BRIAN W. ALDISS

Contemporary

Flamingo

Life in the West

Literary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Remembrance Day

The third book in the Squire Quartet. Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties, when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market . Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy in the mid-eighties . Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague, dreaming of making more films when times improve . The lifelines of these people and others - comic and sad by turns in true Aldiss fashion - converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb episode in Great Yarmouth.

Remembrance Day (Squire Quartet The)

Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in “a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery” (Booklist, starred review). Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars represents humankind’s last hope. In six tightly clustered towers on the red planet’s surface, the colonists who have escaped their dying home world are attempting to make a new life unencumbered by the corrupting influences of politics, art, and religion. Unable ever to return, these pioneers have chosen an unalterable path that winds through a landscape as terrible as it is beautiful, often forcing them to compromise their beliefs—and sometimes their humanity—in order to survive. But the gravest threat to the future is not the settlement’s total dependence on foodstuffs sent from a distant and increasingly uncaring Earth, or the events that occur in the aftermath of the miraculous discovery of native life on Mars—it is the fact that in the ten years since colonization began, every new human baby has been born dead, or so tragically deformed that death comes within hours. The great Brian W. Aldiss has delivered a dark and provocative yet ultimately hopeful magnum opus rich in imagination and bold ideas. A novel of philosophy as much as science fiction, Finches of Mars is an exploration of intellectual history, evolution, technology, and the future by one of speculative fiction’s undisputed masters.

Finches Of Mars

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

The Friday Project

Comfort Zone

Twinkling of an Eye

Classics

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Three Novellas

The Squire Quartet

Complete Short Stories 1960s Part 3

Harper/Voyager

1st Penguin 1973 edition 1st printing paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Penguin science fiction omnibus

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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