BRIAN ALDISS SERIES:

Non-Stop

Non-Stop

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Poetry

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. Roy Complain 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... Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.
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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Poetry

The third book in the Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.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 epuisode in Great Yarmouth.
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Life in the West

Life in the West

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Poetry

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 lovely, but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire's private life - the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father's death and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England. Selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best novels since 1939.
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