- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (8 Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000654679X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006546795
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,516,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A crisply philosophical novel on the topic of disaster (DAILY Express )
Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit (DAILY TELEGRAPH ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit (DAILY TELEGRAPH ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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A crisply philosophical novel on the topic of disaster DAILY Express Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit DAILY TELEGRAPH
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a brilliantly provocative and intense novel (and it has nothing to do with 'Science Fiction and Fantasy', by the by). It asks 'Why does misery produce misery?' and 'Is there really no such thing as progress?'. It offers no answers, but it might change the way you think about these questions.
The beauty of this book lies in the connections it makes across time, places and themes. It tells the stories of a variety of people, stories which overlap both physically and thematically. Like Don DeLillo's Underworld, it links ideas poetically and psychically - ie. in the realm of feeling and imagination. It is 'poetic history' that enables the reader to feel (rather than 'know') what is going on in the world.
There is a strong yearning - discernible in the strong undertow of unspoken thoughts - for a higher evaluation of human life as it is lived. In other words, to value the physical and emotional experience of being a human over and above the pursuit of wealth, 'progress', power. For these, Aldiss makes us feel, are all but idealisations of what we would like to be, but never will be. We will never be more than human.
For my money, this is one of the most significant 'British novels' published in the last decade. I can't understand why it isn't better known. Is it because people (inc. Amazon) still categorise Aldiss as a 'science fiction' writer...?
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Remembrance Day
6 July 2003
Format:Hardcover
Remembrance Day is an intelligent and challenging novel on the concept of accidental death as a self fulfilling prophecy. Brian Aldiss, better known for his works of science fiction, steps out of his traditional category and presents a series of interrelated stories about the lives of those touched, both directly and indirectly , by a terrorist explosion in a quiet seaside village in the UK. Professor Hengist Morton Embry offers as his hypothesis that the lives of those killed in the explosion somehow had a predisposition to the final event. Aldiss then explores the lives of his characters with a richness that is compelling, in that the stories are interesting, and gives the reader a foundation upon which to draw their own conclusions regarding the professor's hypothesis. The links between the stories are a bit contrived, but the effect, nonetheless, is a good read of several novellas rolled into one.
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