Cryptozoic! by Brian Aldiss - ISBN: 9781473222731
Paperback
Mind-traveling artist must choose: obey, or unravel the past?

Cryptozoic!

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    10 January 2018

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Summary

In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called ‘mind-travelling’. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy ‘trip’ to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473222731
ISBN-10:1473222737
Author:Brian Aldiss
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:10 January 2018
Weight:220g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 18mm
Series:S.F. Masterworks
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Critics Review

Excellent … ingenious and shocking - Sunday TelegraphWell-written, evocative and disturbing … Aldiss is a magician - Sunday Times

Excellent … ingenious and shocking - Sunday Telegraph

Well-written, evocative and disturbing … Aldiss is a magician - Sunday Times

About The Author

Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels, he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Trillion Year Spree. He died in 2017, the day after his 92nd birthday.

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