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Contents
ОглавлениеACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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
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
About the Publisher
