An Exile on Planet Earth
Articles and Reflections
Distributed for the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
With a Foreword by Alan Yentob
179 pages
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6 x 9 1/4
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© 2012
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Note
Foreword
Alan Yentob
1. Metaphysical Realism
2. Paradise Square
3. Hothouse
4. A Sight of Serbian Churches
5. Zulu: And a Film that Never Was
6. The Ashgabat Trip
7. ‘It’s the Disorientation I Relish’: A revised introduction to The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus
8. The Gulag Archipelago
9. The Continuing War of the Worlds
10. Thoughts on Science and Civilization
11. Meeting Thomas Hardy
12. Afterword: The Other Hemisphere
References
Publisher’s Note
Foreword
Alan Yentob
1. Metaphysical Realism
2. Paradise Square
3. Hothouse
4. A Sight of Serbian Churches
5. Zulu: And a Film that Never Was
6. The Ashgabat Trip
7. ‘It’s the Disorientation I Relish’: A revised introduction to The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus
8. The Gulag Archipelago
9. The Continuing War of the Worlds
10. Thoughts on Science and Civilization
11. Meeting Thomas Hardy
12. Afterword: The Other Hemisphere
References
Review Quotes
Alan Yentob, from the foreword
“What he gives us here is the reality that underlies the fiction: personal stories, often of pain, that illuminate the work.”
Locus
“Brian Aldiss has published something like a half-dozen volumes of essays in his long career, as well as a couple of fascinating autobiographies, but well into his eighties he still seems to be discovering new things about himself and his work. His newest collection, An Exile on Planet Earth, published in connection with the donation of Aldiss’s archives to the Bodleian Library, revisits some familiar material—travel essays, H.G. Wells, his military service in WWI, his love of Mary Shelley, and his experiences with Kubrick and Spielberg—but also includes some fascinating insights into his own fiction and some provocative notions about SF in general, all loosely organized around the theme of alienation suggested by the title.”
Iain Banks, author of Transition
“Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential—and one of the best—science fiction writers Britain has ever produced.”
Paul Kincaid, author of Strange Horizons
"Masterful English prose."—Paul Kincaid, author of Strange Horizons
Sunday Times
“The godfather of British science fiction.”
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