The Detached Retina
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The Detached Retina

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The Detached Retina

About this book

A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.

In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world's pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writings.

The contents include a letter to Salvador Dali, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, the work of Philip K. Dick, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, James Blish, Culture: Is it worth losing your balls for?and the differences between US and UK fantasy.

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Information

Publisher
The Friday Project
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780007482306
eBook ISBN
9780007482313
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. THANKS FOR DROWNING THE OCELOT
  6. ‘A ROBOT TENDED YOUR REMAINS …’
  7. A NOTE
  8. BETWEEN PRIVY AND UNIVERSE
  9. THE IMMANENT WILL RETURNS—2
  10. A WHOLE NEW CAN OF WORMS
  11. SCIENCE FICTION’S MOTHER FIGURE
  12. STURGEON: THE CRUELTY OF THE GODS
  13. THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY Orwell’s 1984
  14. PEEP
  15. CULTURE
  16. WELLS AND THE LEOPARD LADY
  17. THE ADJECTIVES OF ERICH ZANN
  18. JEKYLL
  19. ONE HUMP OR TWO
  20. KAFKA’S SISTER
  21. CAMPBELL’S SOUP
  22. SOME EARLY MEN IN THE MOON
  23. KALIYUGA, OR UTOPIA AT A BAD TIME
  24. UTOPIA: DREAM OR PIPE DREAM?
  25. THE ATHEIST’S TRAGEDY REVISITED
  26. THE PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE
  27. DECADENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
  28. THE VEILED WORLD
  29. A PERSONAL PARABOLA
  30. About the Author
  31. Also part of The Brian Aldiss Collection
  32. Copyright
  33. About the Publisher

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