Pale Shadow of Science
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Brian Aldiss. Pale Shadow of Science
The Pale Shadow of Science. BY BRIAN ALDISS
Contents
Introductory Note
Introductory Note to The Lurid Glare of the Comet
Preparation for What?
Long Cut to Burma
Old Bessie
Science Fiction’s Mother Figure
The Immanent Will Returns
The Downward Journey: Orwell’s 1984
A Whole New Can of Worms
Peep
A Transatlantic Harrison, Yippee!
The Atheist’s Tragedy Revisited
The Pale Shadow of Science
A Monster for All Seasons
Helliconia: How and Why
Bold Towers, Shadowed Streets …
… And the Lurid Glare of the Comet
When the Future Had to Stop
What Happens Next?
Grounded in Stellar Art
It Takes Two to Tango
Robert Sheckley’s World: Australia
Sturgeon: Mercury Plus X
The Glass Forest
This World and Nearer Ones
The Detached Retina
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Title Page
Introductory Note
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Despite the regime of starvation and ordeal-by-ocean, I do not recall anyone being ill at St Paul’s. There was none of this namby-pamby Jane Eyre stuff of dying of consumption. That would have been frowned upon.
Winters were harder to get through than summers. The greatest deprivation was loss of toys. Bullying and fighting remained as recreation, but I developed alternatives of my own.
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