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Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work. Events move fast in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the new African republic of Goya. When affable young PR man Soames Noyes arrives fresh off the boat from England to deliver the city’s first computer, he finds himself swept up in a current of women, witch-doctors and promiscuity. Soon the indecisive Soames is saying goodbye to inhibition and hello to a new sexual politics.

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'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers' The Telegraph

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH `A rattling good yarn' DAILY TELEGRAPH `Aldiss is a magician' SUNDAY TIMES

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH `A rattling good yarn' DAILY TELEGRAPH `Aldiss is a magician' SUNDAY TIMES

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH 'A rattling good yarn' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Aldiss is a magician' SUNDAY TIMES

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Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories, many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss Collection. Several of Aldiss’ books have been adapted for the cinema; his story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ was adapted and released as the film AI in 2001. Besides his own writing, Brian has edited numerous anthologies of science fiction and fantasy stories, as well as the magazine SF Horizons. Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society and in 2000 was given the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Aldiss was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2005. He now lives in Oxford, the city in which his bookselling career began in 1947.

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