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The Shape of Further Things: Speculations on Change
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Brian Aldiss, born in 1925, is one of the most prolific authors of both general and science fiction. In a writing career stretching from 1955 to the present he has published over seventy books. He has also been an influential compiler of science fiction anthologies. A Science Fiction Omnibus is available as a Penguin Modern Classic.
Faber have reissued six of his best science fiction titles: Earthworks, Cryptozoic!, Barefoot in the Head, Galaxies like Grains of Sand, The Dark Light Years and The Shape of Further Things.
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The shape of further things : speculations on change / [by] Brian W. Aldiss; with appendices by Christopher Evans and others
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The shape of further things : speculations on change / [by] Brian W. Aldiss; with appendices by Christopher Evans and others
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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3-185 pages; illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: Introduction -- A fantastic vision after midnight -- The education of H.G. Wells -- Sleep, dreams, and the somnolent computer -- Baden-Powell and the Neanderthals -- Science fiction: from 'modern boy' to 'little boy' -- An alligator in a dog's embrace -- The dreams of Twickenham (and Wandsworth) -- The imaginary life and death of telepathy -- Fifties SF and the alien-as-human -- Piranesi unchained -- An SF convention of the fifties -- How I ran through an empire -- and what was better for it -- A perfect posited image of this book -- A cartographic Amis and sixties SF -- New worlds and SF horizons of the sixties -- Automation versus fact-free education -- Christie and the new fantasy-dramas -- M.E.R.O.'s Sinai Project, 1957-70 -- Conformity and the everlasting cornflake -- Post-lunar postscript -- Appendices. Subjects: Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson) 1925-2017; Science fiction Authorship; Science Fiction; English fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 404230
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THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS: SPECULATIONS ON CHANGE .
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Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-13 [14] 15-185 [186-188: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. An essay in autobiography and criticism. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 8-2. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced £1.75 on the front flap. (#177394). Seller Inventory # 177394