The Detached Retina
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In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the worldтАЩs pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writings.
The contents include a letter to Salvador Dali, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, the work of Philip K. Dick, OrwellтАЩs Nineteen Eighty-Four, James Blish, Culture: Is it worth losing your balls for?and the differences between US and UK fantasy.
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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 тАШCriminal RecordтАЩ, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
