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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
| Author: | Brian W. Aldiss |
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Gollancz, 2026 Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Faber and Faber, 2012 Panther Books, Ltd., 1979 Gregg Press, 1977 Signet, 1960 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Human Development |
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Synopsis
In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.
Table of Contents:
- 7 - untitled - short story
- 8 - The War Millennia - short story
- 8 - Out of Reach - short story
- 23 - The Sterile Millennia - novelette
- 24 - All the World's Tears - short story
- 35 - The Robot Millennia - short story
- 36 - Who Can Replace a Man? - short story
- 45 - The Dark Millennia - novelette
- 46 - O Ishrail! - short story
- 60 - The Star Millennia - novelette
- 65 - Incentive - short story
- 79 - The Mutant Millennia - novelette
- 80 - Gene-Hive - short story
- 99 - The Megalopolis Millennia - short story
- 102 - Secret of a Mighty City - short story
- 116 - The Ultimate Millennia - novelette
- 116 - Visiting Amoeba - novelette
Excerpt
The War Millennia
To begin with though it is certainly no beginning the first fragment is of a strange past world, where the clouds of nationalism have gathered and broken into a storm of war. Over the forgotten continents Asia, America, Africa missile of destruction fly. The beleaguered people of that day have not fully comprehended the nature of the struggle in which they are engulfed.
Those simple blacks, whites and greys which constitute the political situation are grasped readily enough with a little application. But behind these issues lie factors scarcely understood in the council chambers of Peking, London, Cairo or Washington factors which stem form the long and savage past of the race; factors of instinct and frustrated instinct; factors of fear and lust and dawning conscience; factors inseparable from the adolescence of a species, which loom behind all man s affairs like an insurmountable mountain chain.
So men fought each other instead of wrestling with themselves. The bravest sought to evade the currents of hatred by turning outward to the nearest planets in the solar system the cowardly, by sleeping away their lives in vast hives called dreameries, where the comforts of fantasy could discount the depredations of war. Neither course ultimately offered refuge, when the earthquake comes, it topples both tower and hovel.
It is fitting that the first fragment should start with a man sitting helplessly in a chair, while bombs fall.
Copyright © 1960 by Brian W. Aldiss
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