In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy 'trip' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . .
Brian W. Aldiss (1925 - 2017)
Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Billion Year Spree (later expanded and revised as Trillion Year Spree). He died in 2017 the day after his 92nd birthday.
Title: Cryptozoic! (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Author: Brian Aldiss
ISBN: 9781473222731
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Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication Date: 2017-11-02
Number of Pages: 240
Weight: 0.3201 kg
Excellent . . . ingenious and shocking - Sunday Telegraph
Well-written, evocative and disturbing . . . Aldiss is a magician - Sunday Times