Out of the Gothic
Tom Shippey, 5 February 1987
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove.
Gollancz, 511 pp., £15, October 1986,0 575 03942 6 Show More
by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove.
Gollancz, 511 pp., £15, October 1986,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts
by Douglas Adams.
Heinemann, 590 pp., £9.95, September 1986,0 434 00920 2 Show More
by Douglas Adams.
Heinemann, 590 pp., £9.95, September 1986,
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
by Philip K. Dick.
Gollancz, 199 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 575 03875 6 Show More
by Philip K. Dick.
Gollancz, 199 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
“... and the social condition, a conviction that social conditions are epiphenomena. Aldiss cites David Lodge’s argument that Tony-Bungay is a better novel than it appears because it insists on spreading its focus from the Ponderevos and Bladesover House to ‘the Condition of England’ itself. In similar style, one could argue that much ‘near-Science ... ”
