Space, Time and Nathaniel

by Brian W. Aldiss

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Travel through time and space with fourteen remarkable science fiction stories from the early career of an award-winning Grand Master of the genre. "The stories in this collection are some of Aldiss' earliest stories and it's amazing how little they have lost through the years. . . . Well worth picking up." -- Science Fiction Book Reviews A father communicates with his unborn son to warn him of impending dangers . . . On the fringes of a galaxy waits a machine inhabited by a terrifying being show more with one mission: to destroy a planet in our solar system . . . A man is condemned to live a routine from which he cannot deviate, all before a live audience who eerily find humor in the strangest of his actions . . . A time traveler is recruited to voyage many thousands of years into the future to rescue mutated beings known as "the Failed Men" by digging them up from their graves . . . These stories and more await readers in Space, Time, and Nathaniel . Originally published in 1957, this collection marked Brian W. Aldiss's entry into science fiction. He would become a pioneer in the genre's British New Wave style with experimental tales such as these, exploring the vastness of outer space and the unknown realms of human nature. show less

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I enjoyed the first story, T, but the rest,like many of Aldiss's stories, were just OK.
Indeholder "Introduction", "T", "Our Kind of Knowledge", "Psyclops", "Conviction", "Not For An Age", "The Shugshub Race", "Criminal Record", "The Failed Men", "Supercity", "There is a Tide", "Pogsmith", "Outside", "Panel Game", "Dumb Show".

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"T" handler om et væsen T udsendt af en race kaldet Koax, som vil udrydde Jorden. T bliver sendt tilbage i tiden for at udslette den syvende planet i solsystemet. Missionen lykkes og Jorden bliver herefter den syvende planet, ganske som den altid har været.
"Our Kind of Knowledge" handler om The Preacher, Aprit, Woebee, Calurmo og Little Light, der er superkloge, superflinke, super... aliens, finder et flere tusind år gammelt rumskib og pr tankens kraft flyver de det show more afsted ud i rummet. De bliver opbragt af et jordisk rumskib, der er lidt paranoidt anlagt fordi Jorden er i krig med en anden race, The Boux. De fem kan undslippe alle fælder og stoppe skibets kraftfelt osv. Til slut fortæller de at de selv er resultatet af ægteskab mellem mennesker og The Boux folk, så alt kan løses med "Make love, not war!"?
"Psyclops" handler om en mand, hvis kone er gravid med tvillinger. Manden og den ene tvilling er telepater og han kan lige nå at kommunikere med denne og den kan lige nå at kommunikere med Jorden, hvilket er tiltrængt, men den vil hellere ud af mors mave og det er nok ikke så godt.
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"Not For An Age" handler om Rodney Furnell, der er havnet som attraktion i en zoo i år 2500. Han og hans familie er i et loop, så det er samme dag hver dag, hvilket han inderst inde godt ved, men ikke kan gøre noget ved. Efter et utal af gentagelser går maskinen i stykker, så han kan undslippe, men kort efter går den i gang igen og han er tilbage i loop'et.
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"The Failed Men" handler om en mand, der er hjemvendt fra en tidsrejsemission for at hjælpe menneskene i en fjern, fjern fremtid. De har fejlet, men i hvad og hvordan er uforståeligt for alle. Ordet "struback" er det nærmeste, de er kommet det. Manden kommer tilbage med store traumer, selv om han var den, der scorede bedst i testene inden. Man kommer uvilkårligt til at tænke på hjemvendte soldater og at mange af dem også får problemer med hjem.
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"Outside" handler om en bygning midt i ingenting, hvor nogle mennesker eller aliens holdes under observation for at finde ud af om de er det ene eller det andet. Hovedpersonen tror at han er et menneske, men nej. En typisk Find spionen/forræderen historie.
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Brian W. Aldiss was born in Dereham, United Kingdom on August 18, 1925. In 1943, he joined the Royal Signals regiment, and saw action in Burma. After World War II, he worked as a bookseller at Oxford University. His first book, The Brightfount Diaries, was published in 1955. His first science fiction novel, Non-Stop (Starship in the United show more States), was published in 1958. He wrote more than 80 books including Hothouse, Greybeard, The Helliconia Trilogy, The Squire Quartet, Frankenstein Unbound, The Malacia Tapestry, Walcot, and Mortal Morning. His short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long was the basis for the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He has received numerous awards for his work including two Hugo Awards, the Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and an OBE for services to literature. He was also an anthologist and an artist. He was the editor of 40 anthologies including Introducing SF, The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus, Space Opera, Space Odysseys, Galactic Empires, Evil Earths, and Perilous Planets. He was an abstract artist and his first solo exhibition, The Other Hemisphere, was held in Oxford in August-September 2010. He died on August 19, 2017 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Raum, Zeit und Nathaniel
Original title
Space, Time and Nathaniel
Original publication date
1957
First words
By the time T was ten years old, his machine was already on the fringes of that galaxy.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In her brain, the delighted thoughts were wasps in a honey pot, bees in a hive, flies in a chapel, gnats in a factory, midges in a Sahara, sparks up an everlasting flue, a comet falling for ever in a noiseless void, a voice singing in a new universe.
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Cooper, Edmund
Original language*
Englisch
Disambiguation notice*
"Aufstand Der Alten" nicht mit "Raum, Zeit und Nathaniel" kombinieren
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
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PR6051 .L3 .S63Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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