Collected Essays

Collected Essays
Brian Aldiss

Four of Brian’s acclaimed essay collections in one ebook.Four books of essays dating from the 1970s to the 1990s.The books included are THIS WORLD AND NEARER ONES, PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE, AND THE LURID GLARE OF THE COMET and THE DETACHED RETINA.

Collected Essays

BY BRIAN ALDISS

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The Detached Retina (#u0712ab9e-5fba-59aa-96ea-d15fa9e9e9c2)

The Pale Shadow of Science (#litres_trial_promo)

This World and Nearer Ones (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author

Also part of The Brian Aldiss Collection

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher

The Detached Retina

BY BRIAN ALDISS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THANKS FOR DROWNING THE OCELOT

‘A ROBOT TENDED YOUR REMAINS …’

The Advance of the Mega-machine

A NOTE

BETWEEN PRIVY AND UNIVERSE

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

THE IMMANENT WILL RETURNS—2

A WHOLE NEW CAN OF WORMS

SCIENCE FICTION’S MOTHER FIGURE

I

II

STURGEON: THE CRUELTY OF THE GODS

THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY Orwell’s 1984

PEEP

CULTURE

Is it Worth Losing Your Balls For?

WELLS AND THE LEOPARD LADY

Lecture delivered at the International Wells Symposium

THE ADJECTIVES OF ERICH ZANN

A Tale of Horror

JEKYLL

ONE HUMP OR TWO

Lecture given at the IAFA Conference of the Fantastic

KAFKA’S SISTER

CAMPBELL’S SOUP

SOME EARLY MEN IN THE MOON

KALIYUGA, OR UTOPIA AT A BAD TIME

Talk given at the Annual MENSA meeting in Cambridge

UTOPIA: DREAM OR PIPE DREAM?

THE ATHEIST’S TRAGEDY REVISITED

THE PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE