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105165 ALDISS, Brian W A SOLDIER ERECT £ 3.00
Readers of THE HAND-REARED BOY will have no difficulty in remembering its hero, Horatio Stubbs. The time is now the early 1940's, and Horatio is soldiering in the Royal Mendip Borders. In due course his regiment is dispatched overseas to India to become part of the unforgettable Forgooten Army. The Genttee skirmishes for women in the United Kingdom intensify into a desperate running battle to cope with the urgencies of randiness. Eventually the regiment is posted to the Burmese front and plunged into the battle of Kohima in the mountains of Assam. During the campaigns against the Japanese, the troops partake in varius riotous sexual escapades with whores, ponces and gobble-wallahs. Brian Aldiss Shows us, through the eyes of Horatio and his friends, the far off days of the forties exactly as they were - Heroic, Bawdy or Downright bloody unspeakable. Corgi 222 pages. Reading condition only.
105154 ALDISS, Brian W A SOLDIER ERECT £ 3.00
Readers of THE HAND-REARED BOY will have no difficulty in remembering its hero, Horatio Stubbs. The time is now the early 1940's and Horatio is soldiering in the Royal Mendip Borders. In due course his regiment is dispatched overseas to India to become part of the unforgettable Forgooten Army. The Genttee skirmishes for women in the United Kingdom intensify into a desperate running battle to cope with the urgencies of randiness. Eventually the regiment is posted to the Burmese front and plunged into the battle of Kohima in the mountains of Assam. During the campaigns against the Japanese, the troops partake in varius riotous sexual escapades with whores, ponces and gobble-wallahs. Brian Aldiss shows us, through the eyes of Horatio and his friends, the far off days of the forties exactly as they were - Heroic, Bawdy or Downright bloody unspeakable. Corgi 222 pages. Reading condition only.
105061 ALDISS, Brian W AN AGE £ 3.00
ALSO PUBLISHED AS "CRYPTOZOIC" IN 1973. Bush materialised on the prehistoric shore - and the drama began. For Bush was a mind-traveller, moving through time like a phantom and haunted by a phantom - The Dark Woman. Was she a ghost from his future or the product of a mind strained beyond endurance? Bush had other problems: emerging from the Devonian past into a totalitarian future he was trained to kill, sent back in time to assassinate a man who threatened the future. This brilliant examination of the relationship between men and time is simultaneously a serious novel on that fascinating subject and a tense psychosexual thriller. A SPHERE paperback edition. 187 pages. S/H.
105062 ALDISS, Brian W BROTHERS OF THE HEAD/WHERE THE LINES CONVERGE £ 3.00
Barry and Tom are Siamese twins with a third head, dormant but sinister, growing out of Barry's left shoulder. Plucked from their desolate home by showbiz entrepeneurs, the demonic violence of their relationship is channelled into the formation of a rock group, the Big Bang. In the jealous battles they fight over their shared lover, the new superstars might almost forget their silent companion - but it will not forget them. Barry and Tom are forever the Brothers of the Head. Also features 'Where The Lines Converge'. A GRANADA paperback edition. 156 pages. S/H.
105063 ALDISS, Brian W CRYPTOZOIC £ 3.00
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS "AN AGE". Bush materialised on the prehistoric shore - and the drama began. For Bush was a mind-traveller, moving through time like a phantom and haunted by a phantom - The Dark Woman. Was she a ghost from his future or the product of a mind strained beyond endurance? Bush had other problems: emerging from the Devonian past into a totalitarian future he was trained to kill, sent back in time to assassinate a man who threatened the future. This brilliant examination of the relationship between men and time is simultaneously a serious novel on that fascinating subject and a tense psychosexual thriller. A SPHERE paperback edition. 187 pages. S/H.
105065 ALDISS, Brian W EARTHWORKS £ 4.00
The world had degenerated into a disease-ridden, over-populated rubbish dump. Chemicals had poisoned the landscape and reduced most of the people to the edge of starvation. Ecology has become a meaningless word from the past. The planet earth speeds on its collision course with disaster. There is a solution but it is so frightful that man cannot conceive of it ever being put into operation. Only one man, Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the tramp freighter Trieste Star is prepared to try. He alone is prepared to fire a shot that will throw the world into hideous war - but may leave a brave new world for the survivors. If there are any survivors. A METHUEN paperback edition. 126 pages. S/H.
105064 ALDISS, Brian W EARTHWORKS £ 3.00
The world had degenerated into a disease-ridden, over-populated rubbish dump. Chemicals had poisoned the landscape and reduced most of the people to the edge of starvation. Ecology has become a meaningless word from the past. The planet earth speeds on its collision course with disaster. There is a solution but it is so frightful that man cannot conceive of it ever being put into operation. Only one man, Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the tramp freighter Trieste Star is prepared to try. He alone is prepared to fire a shot that will throw the world into hideous war - but may leave a brave new world for the survivors. If there are any survivors. A NEW ENGLISH PAPERBACK edition. 126 pages. S/H.
105066 ALDISS, Brian W EQUATOR £ 2.00
An invasion of Earth was imminent - and only one man could prevent it! A team of saboteurs had infiltrated the enemy territories, attempting to bring back to Earth a warning of the impending attack. Death had finally reduced their number to two and fears of treachery had divided them. Finally, only one man could save Earth. The secret of the hordes of death had to be brought back. But he could trust nobody - not even himself. A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY paperback edition. 127 pages. S/H.
105147 ALDISS, Brian W EQUATOR £ 3.00
An invasion of Earth was imminent - and only one man could prevent it! A team of saboteurs had infiltrated the enemy territories, attempting to bring back to Earth a warning of the impending attack. Death had finally reduced their number to two and fears of treachery had divided them. Finally, only one man could save Earth. The secret of the hordes of death had to be brought back. But he could trust nobody - not even himself. A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY paperback edition. 127 pages. S/H.
105149 ALDISS, Brian W GREYBEARD £ 3.00
It started in 1981, the year atomic testing in space got out of hand. Slowly the truth dawns: Man has intorduced sterility in his own kind. Civilisation, childless, crumbles inexorably. In scattered little self-contained communities the old comfort the old. Outside these enclaves Nature comes back into its own, burying the cites and roads in a riot of vegetation, peopling the land with burgeoning new animal life. Through this strange wilderness Greybeard and his wife Martha journey in search of hope. And hope,of a sort, they find - with the fantastic Jingadangelow and his strange mission. But is it possible that the new Dawn of Man holds sinister possibilites for the remnantsof the old order? S/H 219 pages
105152 ALDISS, Brian W INTERPRETER £ 3.00
The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known Universe is dominated by the Nuls, a huge, three-armed race, almost as old as time itself. A charge of Nul corruption on an insignifigant planet called Earth ses off a dramatic chain of events. With the impending visit of a powerful Nul investigator, and the humans preparing for rebellion, Par-Chavorlem, the tyrannical commissioner of Earth, lays a devious plan. And Gary Towler, chief interpreter to the aliens, finds himself in a desperate situation. But one in which he sees a chance to liberate Earth. New English Library 126 pages spine slightly faded. Reading copy only.
105158 ALDISS, Brian W INTERPRETER £ 4.00
The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known Universe is dominated by the Nuls, a huge, three-armed race, almost as old as time itself. A charge of Nul corruption on an insignifigant planet called Earth ses off a dramatic chain of events. With the impending visit of a powerful Nul investigator, and the humans preparing for rebellion, Par-Chavorlem, the tyrannical commissioner of Earth, lays a devious plan. And Gary Towler, chief interpreter to the aliens, finds himself in a desperate situation. But one in which he sees a chance to liberate Earth. New English Library 126 pages.
103487 ALDISS, Brian W NON-STOP £ 6.99
Curiousity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down. A GOLLANCZ SF MASTERWORKS paperback edition. 241 pages.
105060 ALDISS, Brian W THE AIRS OF EARTH £ 3.00
A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY BRIAN ALDISS. Take a trip with Britain's leading writer of science fiction. Eight imaginative excursions into the Future. Meet the Man of the Future, with his insatiable desire to move onwards and outwards. In the cold-war of the future, it's a man's life in the army - or is it? How will a human mind react when it finds itself in a non-human body? It doesn't matter whether you prefer outer space of inner space - these stories are the best; from the bleak vacuum of space, Brian Aldiss brings you back to 'The Airs Of Earth'. FEATURES 8 SHORT STORIES. A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY paperback edition. 190 pages. S/H.
105153 ALDISS, Brian W THE SALIVA TREE £ 3.00
When the meteor landed on the Grendon farm, strange and unnatural things begin to happen. The farm suddenly flourished with bumper crops and a record number of births of livestock and babies. It was being turned into a superfarm and they were being fattened up for the kill. Sphere 253 pages reading copy only
78151 ALDISS, Brian W and PENROSE, Roger WHITE MARS £ 7.99
This is an unusual collaboration between the novelist and science fiction writer, Brian Aldiss, and the distinguished mathematician and scientist, Sir Roger Penrose. Set at the end of the twenty-first century, Mars has been preserved as a planet for science, with a few thousand men and women marooned there, and Tom Jeffries slowly creates his goal of the humanising of science and the improvement of human existence. May it be a lesson to us all. Warner paperback edition. 323 pages.
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