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Brian Aldiss
Detached Retina [EPUB ebook]

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A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writings.The contents include a letter to Salvador Dali, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, the work of Philip K. Dick, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, James Blish, Culture: Is it worth losing your balls for?and the differences between US and UK fantasy.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780007482313 ● Publisher HarperCollins Publishers ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5632265 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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