![]() ![]() ![]() There are many characters, but Aldiss focuses on Gren, an intelligent young man treasured as one of the very few males of the species. ![]() In the first chapter, the child Clat is killed by a trappersnapper, which senses its prey through a layer of foliage and is in essence a pair of a pair of square jaws with teeth. ![]() The cities are long gone, and the few humans left live in small tribes in trees. In the distant future, the sun is burning out. Aldiss’s gift for brilliant, gorgeous, rhythmic language makes this novel a classic. In Hothouse, first published in 1961 and reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2008, human beings are determined to survive on a future earth, though they are threatened by lush man-eating vegetation. She said she was not familiar with SF, nor had she intended write science fiction, but was fascinated by his precis of trends in speculative fiction and liked the idea of being part of an up-and-coming genre.Īldiss is the author of Hothouse, a modernist SF novel in which the earth has heated up of instead of cooled down. When he wrote Kavan a letter praising it, they arranged to meet. It is the best piece on Kavan I’ve ever read.Īldiss thought Ice was the best science fiction novel of 1967. I have been meaning to read Brian Aldiss’s science fiction since I read his introduction to the American paperback edition of Anna Kavan’s surreal apocalyptic novel, Ice. ![]()
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