This World and Nearer Ones
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This World and Nearer Ones

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This World and Nearer Ones

About this book

Aldiss' acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.

Most of the arts – architecture, music, painting, cinema – come under review in this thought-provoking collection of essays first published in 1979.

Aldiss writes here with characteristic humour the complex unity of art and science which forms the inner mystery of science fiction, and reveals new aspects whilst 'exploring the familiar'.

Brian says: 'A collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects, including literature, film, politics, current affairs, art and the author's own life.'

Information

Publisher
The Friday Project
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780007482344
eBook ISBN
9780007482351
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Science Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction and Acknowledgements
  4. Ever Since the Enlightenment
  5. James Blish and the Mathematics of Knowledge
  6. Dick’s Maledictory Web
  7. Why They Left Zirn Unguarded: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
  8. Nesvadba: In the Footsteps of the Admirable Cˇapek
  9. Verne: The Extraordinary Voyage
  10. Vonnegut: Guru Number Four
  11. Barefoot: Its First Decade
  12. The Gulf and the Forest: Contemporary SF in Britain
  13. Looking Forward to 2001
  14. The Hiroshima Man
  15. From History to Timelessness
  16. The Hashish Club
  17. 1951: Yesterday’s Festival of the Future
  18. The Sower of the Systems: Some Paintings by G. F. Watts
  19. The Fireby-Wireby Book
  20. SF Art: Strangeness with Beauty
  21. The Film Tarkovsky Made
  22. Kissingers Have Long Ears
  23. Spielberg: When the Mundane Breaks Down
  24. Sleazo Inputs I Have Known
  25. It Catechised from Outer Space: Politics in SF
  26. The Flight into Tomorrow
  27. Burroughs: Less Lucid than Lucian
  28. ‘Yes, well, but …’
  29. The Universe as Coal-Scuttle
  30. California, Where They Drink Buck Rogers
  31. Modest Atmosphere with Monsters
  32. Cultural Totems in the Soviet Union
  33. A Swim in Sumatra
  34. About the Author
  35. Also part of The Brian Aldiss Collection
  36. Copyright
  37. About the Publisher

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