Collected Essays
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Brian Aldiss. Collected Essays
Collected Essays. BY BRIAN ALDISS
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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
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
The Pale Shadow of Science. BY BRIAN ALDISS
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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. BY BRIAN ALDISS
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Introduction and Acknowledgements
Ever Since the Enlightenment
James Blish and the Mathematics of Knowledge
Dick’s Maledictory Web
Why They Left Zirn Unguarded: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Nesvadba: In the Footsteps of the Admirable Čapek
Verne: The Extraordinary Voyage
Vonnegut: Guru Number Four
Barefoot: Its First Decade
The Gulf and the Forest: Contemporary SF in Britain
Looking Forward to 2001
The Hiroshima Man
From History to Timelessness
The Hashish Club
1951: Yesterday’s Festival of the Future
The Sower of the Systems: Some Paintings by G. F. Watts
The Fireby-Wireby Book
SF Art: Strangeness with Beauty
The Film Tarkovsky Made
Kissingers Have Long Ears
Spielberg: When the Mundane Breaks Down
Sleazo Inputs I Have Known
It Catechised from Outer Space: Politics in SF
The Flight into Tomorrow
Burroughs: Less Lucid than Lucian
‘Yes, well, but …’
The Universe as Coal-Scuttle
California, Where They Drink Buck Rogers
Modest Atmosphere with Monsters
Cultural Totems in the Soviet Union
A Swim in Sumatra
Moreau’s Other Island
Frankenstein Unbound
Dracula Unbound
About the Author
Also part of The Brian Aldiss Collection
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The Detached Retina
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Such is the penalty one pays for modesty. I mentioned no single story or novel of mine in my text; it would have been bad form to do so. Lester del Rey, nothing if not derivative, repays the compliment by mentioning no single story or novel of mine in his text,[11] though to be sure, disproportionate space is devoted to del Rey’s own activities.
This particular instance can perhaps be ascribed to jealousy. To scholarly responses we will attend later.
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