Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand

Aldiss propone, en una serie de relatos cortos, una historia de la humanidad que abarca millones de años, desde nuestras estúpidas guerras en la Tierra hasta la inevitable decadencia de nuestra querida galaxia. Cada relato toca un tema específico en la historia de la humanidad; algunos de estos rela......more

This is easily one of the best sci-fi novel, or just book, that I have ever read. This book is old and I had to obtain my copy via eBay, but it was worth it. The eight interconnected stories come to a surprising conclusion, and overall is very thought-provoking. I liked how each chapter focused on a......more

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand is a solid work of science fiction. It accomplishes what so many books in the genre surprisingly fail to do, which is to raise questions about our collective future based upon our past and present conditions. For those that want to consider far reaching ideas about our......more

A collection of quite abstract SF short stories, forcefully tied together by the author’s interwoven voice. There’s no plot development, no character to be liked or despised, no real thread to tie together these, mostly unrelated, views of distant futures. It must be conceded that there’s an uncommo......more

Curiosamente este libro, al igual que el que leí inmediatamente antes (334), consta de varios relatos entrelazados que forman una historia más compleja sobre el futuro de la humanidad. En el caso del libro de Aldiss, la trama es lineal, desde un futuro cercano hasta el fin de nuestra galaxia. Está ll......more