Space, Time, and Nathaniel
Brian W. Aldiss
Beschreibung
Travel through time and space withfourteen remarkable science fiction stories from the early career of an award-winning Grand Master of the genre. “The stories in this collection are some of Aldiss’ earliest stories and it’s amazing how little they have lost through the years. . . . Well worth picking up.” —Science Fiction Book Reviews A father communicates with his unborn son to warn him of impending dangers . . . On the fringes of a galaxy waits a machine inhabited by a terrifying being with one mission: to destroy a planet in our solar system . . . A man is condemned to live a routine from which he cannot deviate, all before a live audience who eerily find humor in the strangest of his actions . . . A time traveler is recruited to voyage many thousands of years into the future to rescue mutated beings known as “the Failed Men” by digging them up from their graves . . . These stories and more await readers in Space, Time, and Nathaniel. Originally published in 1957, this collection marked Brian W. Aldiss’s entry into science fiction. He would become a pioneer in the genre’s British New Wave style with experimental tales such as these, exploring the vastness of outer space and the unknown realms of human nature.
