NOTE: I "read" the audiobook version of this, narrated by the fabulous Jim Dale. I think this definitely added interest to the story, which did begin a bit dull, but ended splendidly! Dale is REMARKABLE at the characterization and voices and I think this tale is especially well suited to being r...
After reaching the halfway mark, I threw this book down (you can read later why) only to pick it up again because 1) I think it unfair when someone rates/reviews a book they haven't finished, as I have never felt that was a fair way to judge a book, potentially destroying an author's chance to re...
I remember reading this novel when I was about fifteen. I liked it, although I didn’t understand it one bit. I’d previously enjoyed Aldiss’ short stories and had read ‘Earthworks’. Thinking about it now, why, if Earthworks at the time had seemed a more satisfactory novel, can I remember very litt...
Brian Aldiss has a mother complex.There's no other way to explain his novel FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND. In it, Joe Bodenland, a man from the 21st century slips back in time to the 19th century; specifically, to Switzerland, where he first meets Victor Frankenstein and his monster and then, after anothe...
Galardonado con premios como el Nebula, el Hugo, el Kurd Lasswitz y el British Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss es todo un referente de la ficción especulativa. Considerado el más prestigioso representante de la llamada “nueva ola de escritores británicos” –quienes renovaron el panorama de la cienci...
simply the most brilliant book ever written, however it requires a special relationship with the readerthe reader must be willing to not read it..but experience it with a free and open mind a mind that can drift in and out of reality that can experience a deep meaning hidden behind a seemingly ra...
The story of the "Green Pedigree" takes the reader directly to the page of protagonist Roy Complain, who has come to terms with life in the inhospitable home to Headquarters, where he leaves regularly the secure perimeter fence of his tribe to hunt for members, it is interesting how much the pres...
This book shouldn’t work. And sometimes it doesn’t. It has issues with bloat and pacing and the plot on occasion meanders, though this latter is mainly due to the picaresque nature of the tale itself, so is perhaps not really a fault. I’m generally not a fan of the picaresque, but this novel has...
A collection of short stories that Aldiss wrote many years ago, recompiled and republished recently. The stories stitch together the future history of mankind from the near future through to the galaxy's demise due to a form of proton decay. It is quaintly anachronistic, referring to 'reels' of...
Eddie Bush is an artist and an employee of the Wenlock Institute, founded by the psychologist who realized, around 2090, that the only thing constraining us within the flow of time is our mind -- more accurately, our perception. It seems we have an undermind that's usually under complete control ...
The Paradox Men loomed large in my mind for a while. I first read about it in Brian Aldiss's SF history, Trillion Year Spree, where he categorizes it as a exemplary example of Widescreen Baroque, comparing it favorable to some of my other favorite SF such as The Stars my Destination and The World...
Una sociedad estelar basada en el Biocom(unismo) más racional. Una sociedad cuyos miembros se llaman a si mismos homo uniformis, como demostración del alto nivel de vida al cual han llegado todos sus miembros. Una sociedad para la cual el capitalismo es un sistema que pertenece a las brumas de la...
Phenomenal. Sick, touching, heartfelt, sad, frustrating, the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe, their odd, grim family and upbringing, the oddity of their rise to rock stardom, and the rudimentary this head on Barry's shoulder that is the true linchpin of the story. Remarkably structure...
This probably ought to be called "Autumn" rather than "Winter" as it mostly concerns the Sibornalese civilisation's preparations for the forthcoming "Weyr"-winter, rather than life in the depths of the planets centuries long "mini ice-age". Technology hasn't quite advanced as far as one would hop...
