<p>‘Caps his entire career… sums up the warnings he has uttered for decades.’ NEW STATESMAN</p> <p>‘As exotic and picaresque as anything in the Helliconia series; the novel boils with ideas about belief and causality, and is shot through with visionary and delirious passages.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH</p> <p>‘Packs in enough detailed research and relevance for a dozen novels with contemporary settings.’ LITERARY REVIEW</p>

The final volume of the critically acclaimed Squire Quartet. Having abandoned Britain to its recession, architectural historian Roy Burnell operates out of Germany, attempting to hold the world together culturally. Moving around the more outrageous parts of the globe, his task is to list architectural gems threatened by war, history and human awfulness. Such is man’s ingenuity, however, that Burnell’s mind is also threatened. Someone has stolen a chunk of his memory – ten years in fact. This chunk, and in particular the more salacious bits, such as his marriage to Stephanie, has been chopped up, recorded in e-mnemonicvision and sold to lovers of soft porn everywhere. First published in 1994 and unavailable for some time. Features a new introduction by the author.
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The final volume of the critically acclaimed Squire Quartet.
‘Caps his entire career… sums up the warnings he has uttered for decades.’ NEW STATESMAN ‘As exotic and picaresque as anything in the Helliconia series; the novel boils with ideas about belief and causality, and is shot through with visionary and delirious passages.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Packs in enough detailed research and relevance for a dozen novels with contemporary settings.’ LITERARY REVIEW
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‘Frightening, gripping… not one for the squeamish’ ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ‘The best of British science fiction writers’ THE SCOTSMAN ‘A rattling good yarn’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Aldiss is a magician’ SUNDAY TIMES• The Brian Aldiss back catalogue is now available in e-format for the first time.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007461202
Publisert
2012-05-21
Utgiver
Vendor
The Friday Project Limited
Vekt
125 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
432

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Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.