Super-State
A Novel of a Future Europe

This was a commemorative read since Brian Aldiss has recently passed away at the age of 92, leaving behind a prodigious oeuvre of science fiction. I've read him before, having quite a few of his titles on my kindle, this is my third read and they seem to all be of a comparable quality, diverting, we......more

An odd book- its parts work work better than its whole - and there are plenty of brilliant parts. In some ways it's closer to a Samuel Beckett play than a sci fi novel. This would make a very trippy art-house movie that would bomb at the box office and live forever as a cult DVD. I loved the convers......more

I haven't read any Brian Aldiss for many years, although I devoured his works when I first started red sci fi 69 years ago. The author passed away in 2017, aged 92. This book was written in 2002 and was by no means his last. He sets the book in a Europe some years in the future when there is a singl......more

Interesting Wild take on media, war, religion, economics and the environment. With an interplanetary exploration thrown in also. Almost stream of consciousness so a little difficult to read at times. Ends with a bad joke.......more

Ez a könyv klasszikus értelembe véve nem egy „jó regény”. A rövid felvillanások alig-alig kapcsolódnak egymáshoz – ami persze így nem igaz, hiszen a végén egy tűéles, fekete humorral megfestett, könyörtelen képet kapunk a jövő Európájáról. Alig van benne valami konkrét – egybefüggő – történet, sőt s......more