New Releases by Brian Wilson Aldiss

On Neanderthal Planet the beings were both less than human and more than human. Now they had to decide which way to go!

Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong. Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending the bare, poison-drenched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle''s world; only in Africais the soil still fertile and the people still relatively vital. On the coast of Africa, near Walvis Bay, Knowle runs his freighter aground; and there he meets Justine and the destructive destiny that purges him of guilt and frees him from hallucination.

"One million years have passed since ancient man first launched his frail metal crafts into the great darkness named "outer space." Now, distant galactic clusters are home to the myriad descendants of the inhabitants of Old Earth. Now, each world, light years separate from the others, forms part of an island universe called "Starswarm." Yet each island remains uneasily bound to all others, for the creatures that people Starswarm were once of the race called Human, and among these 10,000 brave new worlds, man''s brutal, timeless struggle for conquest still goes on ..."--Back cover

On one half of an Earth that has long since ceased to spin, a group of humans attempt to exist against an animal-devouring horror.

"The moon is a nuclear bonfire, smouldering for 100,000 years after the war to end all wars. Robot slaves toil away on a starved planet, unaware the masters they serve are all but extinct. From the rim of space, a horde of invading primitives brings the message of final doom to the most sublime civilization ever known."--Back cover.

In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount, which he describes as a "shabby outpost of literacy." Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his efforts to find "a suitable girl."