Title: Hothouse
Title Record # 186583
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1962-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Hothouse
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1) Add Tags
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1962-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Hothouse
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: This Fixup novel was published, in slightly different form, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in installments entitled 'Hothouse', 'Nomansland', 'Undergrowth', 'Timberline', and 'Evergreen'.
The US variant, 'The Long Afternoon of Earth', is slightly abridged from the UK edition - the US didn't get a full "Hothouse" till 1976.
As usual with Aldiss, the "W." may or may not appear on Cover/Spine/Copyright Page, etc, so please stick with Title page author when checking.
Synopsis: The far future. The sun is about to go nova. Earth and moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with a a vast carnivorous forest. The protagonists, Gren and his lady, journey to the terrifying dark side of the earth.
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Current Tags: Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1) Add Tags
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Awards
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| 1 (as The Long Afternoon of Earth) | 1962 Hugo | Best Short Fiction |
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Reviews
- Review by S. E. Cotts (1962) in Amazing Stories, May 1962
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, June 1962
- Review by Floyd C. Gale (1962) in Galaxy Magazine, October 1962 , reprinted in:
- Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 94 October 1962, (1962)
- Review by W. N. MacPherson (1976) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, September 1976
- Review by Andrew Darlington (1977) in Vector 82
- Review by Roy Macinski (1982) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 5, Number 5
- Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
- Review
[Polish]
by
Sławomir Kędzierski
(1983)
in Fantastyka 3(6) marzec 1983
- Review by Baird Searles (1985) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1985
- Review by Brendan Wignall (1990) in Paperback Inferno, #85
- Review by Bruce Gillespie (1991) in SF Commentary, #69/70
- Review by Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison (2006) in 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels, (2007)
- Review by Graham Sleight (2009) in Locus, #587 December 2009