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The Canopy of Time is a collection of science fiction previously published short stories by English writer Brian W. Aldiss, first published in 1959 by Faber and Faber. The book was published in the United States (in an alternate form which Aldiss preferred) as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand.
Dec 21, 2015 · These eleven exceptional, impactful, at times poignantly ending, semi-linked stories dealing with the passage of time, technology and existential teleology on a post-apocalyptic, futuristic dying Earth — chronologically interspersed by centuries and millenia across 40 million years, leading up to the end of the galaxy — kept me ...
The canopy of time. by. Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-. Publication date. 1963. Publisher. London : New English Library. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
The Canopy of Time. Publisher’s Blurb. Aldiss’s subjects are the traditional ones of human love and aspiration – even his class-conscious robots in ‘Who Can Replace a Man?’ are oddly human – his originality lies in the use of time as an active participant in his stories.
The Canopy of Time presents the history of our future. It is Brian Aldiss's brilliant, epic chronicle of mankind's next 40 million years. From the end of the ultimate race war, it traces man's evolution through the unimagined heights of civilization to the final dissoultion of the galaxy itself.
Each is set at a different time in the future. Each tale is standalone and details a major theme for each era such as machine intelligence (or lack thereof) or a nuclear accident generating individual sentient cells in one body.
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