Trillion Year Spree

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From Frankenstein to Frank Herbert, from Brave New World and 1984 to gaudy magazines and the astounding effects of Star Wars... For decades science fiction has excited the imagination with tales of flight to other planets, escape to other dimensions, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. SF has proliferated like no other literature, producing writers of the stature of Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard and Samuel R. Delany, while images drawn from the genre are the cultural wallpaper of the late Twentieth Century: video games, hi-tech design, a generalized nostalgia for a lost future. In Trillion Year Spree Brian Aldiss, Britain's best known SF author, provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of this extraordinary phenomenon. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation.