Book description
The final volume of the critically acclaimed Squire Quartet, available
for the first time as an ebook.
Having abandoned Britain to its recession, architectural historian Roy
Burnell operates out of Germany, attempting to hold the world together
culturally. Moving around the more outrageous parts of the globe, his
task is to list architectural gems threatened by war, history and human awfulness.
Such is man's ingenuity, however, that Burnell's mind is also
threatened. Someone has stolen a chunk of his memory - ten years in
fact. This chunk, and in particular the more salacious bits, such as his
marriage to Stephanie, has been chopped up, recorded in e-mnemonicvision
and sold to lovers of soft porn everywhere.
First published in 1994 and unavailable for some time. Features a new
introduction by the author. 'Caps his entire career… sums up the
warnings he has uttered for decades.' NEW STATESMAN
'As exotic and picaresque as anything in the Helliconia series; the
novel boils with ideas about belief and causality, and is shot through
with visionary and delirious passages.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Packs in enough detailed research and relevance for a dozen novels
with contemporary settings.' LITERARY REVIEW Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a
fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist
and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army,
Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first
book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science
fiction work was the story 'Criminal Record', which appeared in Science
Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300
short stories.
