Titlebook: Science Fiction: Ten Explorations; C. N. Manlove Book 1986 C. N. Manlove 1986 exploration.fiction.Science Fiction

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Clifford D. Simak, , (1976),ien without becoming other than man, Simak is more hopeful, if often sentimentally so: he has men save the universe with alien help in . (1950); Earth is taken into a larger galactic community in . (1963); humanity establishes a lasting friendship with flower-aliens in . (1965), and with an extrater

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A. A. Attanasio, , (1981),mplete world of the imagination’ since Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The same fanfares heralded Frank Herbert’s ., Stephen Donaldson’s ., Robert Silverberg’s ., Julian May’s . and others besides. But in Attanasio’s case, barring an element of the ponderous and the intellectually overwrought, there is inde

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,Gene Wolfe, , (1980–83),tics as being the event of the 1980s for the genre. Certainly it is a highly-wrought, intelligent, perceptive work, full of amazing bursts of imaginative creation. It is reminiscent of Peake and Borges in its richness of creation, its inwardness, and its questioning of reality. Its hero Severian the

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Frank Herbert, ,(1965),like for impositions of science on history: thus Herbert replaces Seldon’s mathematics with Paul Muad’Dib’s wild unconscious, and order and civilization are put together with anarchy and primitive nature.. Certainly it can be said that . might not have been written had the example of Asimov’s epic not been there.

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A. A. Attanasio, , (1981),lex metaphysical and moral analysis without losing clarity or vividness. The sense of highly articulated yet living structure is the dominant one with the book; the whole journey of the hero involves discovery of the ever-widening patterns of which he is a part.

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,Gene Wolfe, , (1980–83),en, as in Aldiss’s ., the sun is dying, though here by its growing colder and feebler; the society described is largely of an antique or medieval character, with rituals, guilds, myths and religions, and few machines. Reference is made occasionally to a previous, aeons-past technological age of interplanetary travel, but that is all.

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Frederik Pohl, , (1956),ereafter did he turn to the writing of longer novels of vision. With his penchant for clarity, logic and neat plotting, Pohl is probably the most witty of the authors considered here. His warnings are real, and yet their science-fictional guise enables him to escape identification; no one yet has pi

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Brian Aldiss, , (1962),tends to be urban or a construct. (In . (1958) Aldiss turns a star-ship into a jungle.) Much of Aldiss’s work, like Pohl’s, is satiric: but the objects of his satire are less particular, more philosophic — not the power of advertising, the dangers of scientific meddling, the perils of consumerism, t