Remembrance Day

by Brian W. Aldiss

Book Overview

Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312093705
• ISBN13: 9780312093709
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day is an intelligent and challenging novel on the concept of accidental death as a self fulfilling prophecy. Brian Aldiss, better known for his works of science fiction, steps out of his traditional category and presents a series of interrelated stories about the lives of those touched, both directly and indirectly , by a terrorist explosion in a quiet seaside village in the UK. Professor Hengist Morton Embry offers as his hypothesis that the lives of those killed in the explosion somehow had a predisposition to the final event. Aldiss then explores the lives of his characters with a richness that is compelling, in that the stories are interesting, and gives the reader a foundation upon which to draw their own conclusions regarding the professor's hypothesis. The links between the stories are a bit contrived, but the effect, nonetheless, is a good read of several novellas rolled into one.