Remembrance Day

Оглавление

Brian Aldiss. Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

Brian Aldiss. Remembrance Day

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. A Visionary

2. Displaced

3. Despatched

4. Adopted

5. Accepted

6. Salvation

THE SQUIRE QUARTET

Copyright

About the Publisher

Отрывок из книги

THE SQUIRE QUARTET

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories, many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss Collection.

.....

‘Look at her,’ Yarker said, with a derisive gesture, by way of response. His eyes, dark and in-dwelling – almost as if he had some sense, thought Tebbutt – were set in a knobbly face blue with shaving and crimson with exposure to the elements and alcohol. His hair, cut by his wife, stood out here and there in tufts, giving him a ferocious appearance which his manner did not belie. ‘Lazy as they come, our Pauline.’

‘What do you want me to do today?’

.....