The shape of further things : speculations on change / [by] Brian W. Aldiss; with appendices by Christopher Evans and others
by Aldiss, Brian W. (1925-2017)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0571094724
- ISBN 13
- 9780571094721
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About This Item
London : Faber, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3-185 pages; illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: Introduction -- A fantastic vision after midnight -- The education of H.G. Wells -- Sleep, dreams, and the somnolent computer -- Baden-Powell and the Neanderthals -- Science fiction: from 'modern boy' to 'little boy' -- An alligator in a dog's embrace -- The dreams of Twickenham (and Wandsworth) -- The imaginary life and death of telepathy -- Fifties SF and the alien-as-human -- Piranesi unchained -- An SF convention of the fifties -- How I ran through an empire -- and what was better for it -- A perfect posited image of this book -- A cartographic Amis and sixties SF -- New worlds and SF horizons of the sixties -- Automation versus fact-free education -- Christie and the new fantasy-dramas -- M.E.R.O.'s Sinai Project, 1957-70 -- Conformity and the everlasting cornflake -- Post-lunar postscript -- Appendices. Subjects: Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson) 1925-2017; Science fiction Authorship; Science Fiction; English fiction.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The shape of further things : speculations on change / [by] Brian W. Aldiss; with appendices by Christopher Evans and others
- Author
- Aldiss, Brian W. (1925-2017)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571094724
- ISBN 13
- 9780571094721
- Publisher
- London : Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
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