Harm - Hardcover

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034549671X ISBN 13: 9780345496713

Publisher: Del Rey, 2007

Synopsis

In a paranoid, near-future world, Paul Ali, a young writer of Muslim heritage, finds himself imprisoned and held for questioning because of his comic novel, which contains a scene in which two characters joike about the murder of a British prime minister, and his only escape is to an alien planet that he invents within his own mind. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

'All the relish, the vigour and the inventiveness of Science Fiction at its best' - Doris Lessing. 'Subtle literary fiction and vivid science fiction and everything in between' - Michael Moorcock. 'This book is angry, powerful ... it is wonderfully rich ... full of unexpected humour ... Aldiss has produced what may be his most dangerous vision yet' - The Times. 'One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced' - Iain M Banks. 'The subtlety of the storytelling is astonishing... This is exquisite stuff' --DeathRay Magazine

About the Author:

Brian W. Aldiss served in the Royal Signal Corps between 1943 and 1947, then worked as a bookseller and as the literary editor of the Oxford Mail before turning to writing full-time. He is the author of the autobiography Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith’s, and his many prize-winning novels include Hothouse, which won the Hugo Award, The Saliva Tree, which received the Nebula Award, and Helliconia Spring and its sequels. Several of his books and stories, including Frankenstein Unbound and Brothers of the Head, have been adapted for the screen. His story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” was adapted into Artificial Intelligence, a film initially conceived by Stanley Kubrick and ultimately directed by Steven Spielberg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 034549671X
• ISBN 13: 9780345496713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 225