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In a strange future, the earth has stopped rotating, and the stationary world is now split between perpetual day and unending night. The few remaining humans are led by the elders who, facing the end of their time, hand the leadership to a young girl, Toy. The group's manchild Gren wants to be his own leader, however, and will tear apart the group in his search for a new Eden.
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Brian W. Aldiss (1925 - ) Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He is a highly decorated science fiction author who has achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Billion Year Spree (later expanded and revised as Trillion Year Spree). He lives in Oxford.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. First printing Thus. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 253pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth with red spine label. Ex-library copy with several stamps and a pocket. There is also some damp staining to the top foredge, not reaching the text. Complete photographic reprint of the Faber & Faber edition done in 1962. Seller Inventory # 75064
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Gregg Press. Stated First Printing, June 1976. 253pp. Green cloth boards, gilt text in red box stamped on spine. Ex-library with typical markings. Binding is tight, sturdy; text very good. Light shelfwear, rubbing at edges of boards. Foxing to edges of page block. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 249208
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Book Description Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition and first U.S. printing of the expanded text, first printing (limited to 358 copies). Signed by Aldiss. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as THE LONG AFTERNOON OF EARTH (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. New introduction by Joseph Milicia. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-12. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1235-7. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. The first printing of this edition is quite scarce. (#112129). Seller Inventory # 112129
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