De lange namiddag van de aarde

(Hothouse)

by

Paperback, 242 pages

Nederlands language

Published Feb. 28, 1981 by Meulenhoff.

ISBN:
978-90-290-1035-1
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4 stars (1 review)

Hothouse is a 1962 science fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss, composed of five novelettes that were originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. In 2009, IDW Publishing repackaged the novel with a new introduction by Clifford Meth.

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reviewed Hothouse by Brian Aldiss

Mixed

4 stars

I enjoyed the first half of this book more than the second. It began life as a short story, which led to a serial of further short stories, which eventually led to the book. The beginning is clearly a science fiction author in awe of the sheer scale of the world he has imagined, and it is breathtaking. As the story progresses, it feels like Aldiss is trying more and more to write a Proper Book with Characters and Plot, and the wonder of the mad flora world is the worse for it.