Hothouse

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In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.Contents Hothouse Brian W Aldiss nv FSF Feb 61 Nomansland Brian W Aldiss nv FSF Apr 61 Undergrowth Brian W Aldiss na FSF Jul 61 Timberline Brian W Aldiss nv FSF Sep 61 Evergreen Brian W Aldiss na FSF Dec 61 New Read Hothouse Author Brian W. Aldiss For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Millions of years into the future, the Earth is tidally locked with the sun and the sunny side is dominated by a banyan tree of mind boggling size Mile wide plant spiders crawl from the Earth to the moon on vast webs As for man, he is now a foot and a half high, green, and running scared all the timeI got this from Netgalley I was pretty conflicted about this book On one hand, I love the setting Come on A far future earth dominated by colossal plants with giant spiders crawling from the Millions of years into the future, the Earth is tidally locked with the sun and the sunny side is dominated by a banyan tree of mind boggling size Mile wide plant spiders crawl from the Earth to the moon on vast webs As for man, he is now a foot and a half high, green, and running scared all the timeI got this from Netgalley I was prett...A FAR FUTURE Earth where PLANTS are at the TOP of the FOOD CHAIN, HUMANS are MEALS and GIANT, SPIDER LIKE PLANTS travel on webs between the MOON and EARTHthat is not just COOL.that s BLACK DYNAMITE COOL 4.5 to 5.0 stars This book is all about WORLD BUILDING and Brian Aldiss has created a TRIPtastically SUPERB vision of a far future Earth unlike anything I have ever read In the distant future, evolution has decided to BOOT the Animal Kingdon square in the nether regions and pla A FAR FUTURE Earth where PLANTS are at the TOP of the FOOD CHAIN, HUMANS are MEALS and GIANT, SPIDER LIKE PLANTS travel on webs between the MOON and EARTHthat is not just COOL.that s BLACK DYNAMITE COOL 4.5 to 5.0 stars This book is all about WORLD BUILDING and Brian Aldiss has created a TRIPtastically SUPERB vision of a far future Earth unlike anything I have ever read In the distant future, evolution has decided to BOOT the Animal Kingdon square in the nether regions and plants have developed into the dominant Kingdom on EarthSide note I wanted to just say species rather then Kingdom but then I was sure some science troll nerd with an overactive sense of self would take issue with my review for using improper jargon, forcing me to call him an Asshat and posting his picture all over goodreads and who needs that.Anyway, in this far future, the world is basically o...I seldom reread books because there are too many interesting unread books in the world to catch up with but some books just haunt me, demanding to be reread because I have forgotten too many details I was walking around in a lush garden and I was reminded of this book and felt the need to reread it This book is set on a far future ...After reaching the halfway mark, I threw this book down you can read later why only to pick it up again because 1 I think it unfair when someone rates reviews a book they haven t finished, as I have never felt that was a fair way to judge a book, potentially destroying an author s chance to reach an audience, perhaps even ruining their career, and 2 This was a HUGO AWARD WINNING BOOK and I strongly believed there must have been a good reason why But, I didn t follow my own rules of doing th After reaching the halfway mark, I threw this book down you can read later why only to pick it up again because 1 I think it unfair when someone rates reviews a book they haven t finished, as I have never felt that was a fair way to judge a book, potentially destroying an author s chance to reach an audience, perhaps even ruining their career, and 2 This was a HUGO AWARD WINNING BOOK and I strongly believed there must have been a good reason why But, I didn t follow my own rules of doing things and thus originally rated it a 2, and reviewed it in full I wanted so badly to like it, believing it had several things going for it.Here...I was surprised how much I liked this riot of imagination of post humans clinging to survival in a world where plants have taken over Millions of years from now when the sun has gotten hotter and the earth s rotation is locked to keep one side always in its rays, the kingdom of plants has outcompeted animals for all...I m really impressed with this 1962 classic I was fully prepared to assume it would be outdated and skimpy on the characters, but what I actually got was a thought provoking tale that was so heavy on the worldbuilding that the worldbuilding waslike three or four characters in its own right.I mean, you know its some serious science fiction if we re transported a billion years in the future, where men and women are a fifth our current size, where the earth and the moon are locked to constan I m really impressed with this 1962 classic I was fully prepared to assume it would be outdated and skimpy on the characters, but what I actually got was a thought provoking tale that was so heavy on the worldbui...There is a trick to beginning reviews, and it s a pity that I ve never learnt it.My early impression reading this 1960 science fiction novel set on Earth in a far future, when our plant s rotation has stalled and weird, dynamic forms of vegetable life are dominant, leaving the rest tiny humans, wasps, termites and a few others to battle on as best they can was to feel the similarities with J G Ballard s The Drowned World Both imagine a future world that in some ways issimilar to the pre There is a trick to beginning reviews, and it s a pity that I ve never learnt it.My early impression reading this 1960 science fiction novel set on Earth in a far future, when our plant s rotation has stalled and weird, dynamic forms of vegetable life are dominant, leaving the rest tiny humans, wasps, termites and a few others to battle on as best they can was to feel the similarities with J G Ballard s The Drowned World Both imagine a future world that in some ways issimilar to the prehistoric past, the Jungian notion of an inherited species memory is important in both, and the importance of the time that both authors spent in the Far East Ballard as a boy, Aldiss if I remember correctly as part of his military service, is not something that you have to lift stones to see.Both, and I suspect that is a particularly sharp feature in British writing when there is not just the taking into account of ...In the far distant future with the dying Sun above, all the Earth has been overrun by vegetation.Old Sol stays in the same position in the sky.Shining on half the Earth The other part is a frozen wasteland ,in perpetual darknessIt s a plant world for sure.The few humans left, have returned to the trees, there is just one,a Banyan, in reality , and turned green, the humans I mean.A Hothouse the name of the novel originally , in fact ...Hothouse Plant creatures gone wild Human characters woodenOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureYeah, Hothouse 1962 was definitely written with some chemical assistance Maybe some LSD spiked vegetable juice It may have been written as a set of five short stories in 1961, but it s a timeless and bizarre story of a million years in the future when the plants have completely taken over the planet, which has stopped rotating, and humans are little green creatures hustling to avoid becoming pl Hothouse Plant creatures gone wild Human characters woodenOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureYeah, Hothouse 1962 was definitely written w...It s not just pulp fiction it s vegetable pulp fiction Long aeons in Earth s future, an Age of Plants has risen Dangerous, carnivorous plants are everywhere some species are even mobile hunters The remaining humans are a dwarfed, shrunken species With greatly reduced intelligence and a simple, tribal lifestyle, they struggle to stay alive long enough to maintain their p...

Hothouse
  • English
  • 21 December 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 309 pages
  • 0671559303
  • Brian W. Aldiss
  • Hothouse