Mostly young, very engaging, the vivid characters are dealing with problems all our children will face.
A fine intellectual writer, Bayley is here sharper and more substantial than Borges.Ĭamp Concentration is the other Disch I would recommend but 334 has richer characters and more humanity. The Knights of the Limits by Barrington Bayley (Wildwood e-book)īayley, with myself and Ballard, was one of the original plotters who met a couple of times a week to talk about New Worlds magazine, our forum for what became 'post-modernism'. Another Earth elegaically returned to the womb. Ballard, like Aldiss and like me, was raised in an essentially post-modernist world and found in SF a way of describing specific experience. This novel first told me Ballard was more than just a superior writer of Bradburyesque SF stories. Humane, clever, lyrical, it's far and away the best.Īn early 60s vision of global warming! It's the more humanist writers who predict the future best.
This is the original Grumpy-Old-People-in-a-childless-world parable. An early eco-freak, Aldiss gives us a world fundamentally destroyed by consumerism. PD James used a similar plot which she corrupted with bad prose and poor thinking.
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