Product Description

There are eight imaginative excursions in this classic collection that will take you out of this world and out of time, posing such questions as: how would the human mind react in a non-human body, and would universal laughter save the world? The collection includes Basis for Negotiation, in which Britain is the neutral country in a Third World War; The Game of God, a true science fiction about parasitology; and Old Hundredth, which was written for the centenary edition of New Worlds, Britain's oldest science fiction magazine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #994471 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 241 pages

Daily Telegraph
'Mr Aldiss...displays his usual exuberance in exploring human reactions to new ideas, new advances in technology. He ranges a wide spectrum of fantasy.'

About the Author
Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in Norfolk, in 1925. He wrote his first novel, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), while working as a bookseller in Oxford. But he is perhaps better known as one of the most noteworthy voices in science fiction writing. His first work of science fiction, Non-Stop, appeared in 1958. Since then, he has written over 40 novels and 300 short stories, as well as poetry and critical works, and received all of the major science fiction awards. He has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Washington Post, and he has edited Science Fiction Horizons, as well as several anthologies. Brian Aldiss recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday and is presently working on several new books.