The Detached Retina

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Brian Aldiss. The Detached Retina

The Detached Retina. BY BRIAN ALDISS

Contents

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

Bibliography

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. Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science

DECADENCE AND DEVELOPMENT

THE VEILED WORLD. A Lecture given to the Oxford Psychotherapy Society

A PERSONAL PARABOLA. Speech delivered at the Natwest Fundación, Madrid

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Also part of The Brian Aldiss Collection

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Title Page

THANKS FOR DROWNING THE OCELOT

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THE ATHEIST’S TRAGEDY REVISITED

THE PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE

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