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A very British sci-fi novel. This is a very British science fiction novel. It begins in whimsical fashion with something very odd happening to Sir Edgar Laurence, a renowned concert pianist. The action then moves to the English seaside town of Littlehampton where Sir Edgar lives with his privileged and eccentric extended family. It soon appears that Sir Edgar is not the only person to have experienced something odd. Other members of his family also have strange visitations that cause them to act in bizarre ways.

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

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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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