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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy- part-one Ramsey is included. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
Bloody hell Gary I just posted that :>) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
'GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) Chesterton's "nightmare", as he subtitled it, combines Edwardian delicacy with wonderfully melodramatic tub-thumping - beautiful sunsets and Armageddon - to create an Earth as strange as any far-distant planet. Secret policemen infiltrate an anarchist cabal bent on destruction, whose members are known only by the days of the week; but behind each one's disguise, they discover only another policeman. At the centre of all is the terrifying Sunday, a optimistic treatise describing the transcendence of humankind from petty, warring beings to the guardians of utopia, and beyond. One of the first major works to present alien arrival as beneficent, it describes the slow process of social transformation when the Overlords come to Earth and guide us to the light. Humanity ultimately transcends the physical and joins a cosmic overmind, so ushering in the childhood's end of the title. EB' - Unh? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
You'll find Chabon, Chesterton and Clarke have been muddled up by a mischievous force. Perhaps some similar gremlin has gobbled up Ballard. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
'Tis not so. See t'other thread. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Part of me wants to read these gremlinized versions... |