Enemies Of The System

Author: Brian W. Aldiss

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780007482467
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint : The Friday Project Limited
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Publication date : September 2013
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Description

An electrifying journey one millions years into the future: meet the Utopian race of Homo Uniformis - men logical, unemotional, and totally alike...In the future, mankind's physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show. This novel is part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. The Friday Project are reissuing many of Aldiss' works, including over 300 short stories, in print and eBook.

Reviews

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers' The Telegraph 'The kind of book Wells might have written if he had lived to see the 1970s' (Tribune) 'Rich, allusive, full of real people and unfailingly interesting' (Anthony Burgess, The Observer)

Author description

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story 'Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

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