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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
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- Author
- Brian Aldiss
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 28 May 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
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'Science Fiction at its best' Spectator
In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships. It is one of the most powerful and ambitious forays into the far future since Olaf Stapledon's classic Last and First Men.
'One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work' Science Fiction Writers
Critics Review
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Devilishly clever and compulsive
Daily Mail
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Brian Aldiss seems to have always had a more oceanic sense of time than even most science fiction writers, an almost measured vision of what will transpire in the long run . . .
Norman Spinrad
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One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work
Science Fiction Writers
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Anyone who likes to see an intelligent imagination weave people and ideas together, and finish the result with craftsmanship, should enjoy this
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Details
- Author
- Brian Aldiss
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Duration
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399635424
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
'Devilishly clever and compulsive' Daily Mail'Science Fiction at its best' SpectatorIn Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships. It is one of the most powerful and ambitious forays into the far future since Olaf Stapledon's classic Last and First Men.'One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work' Science Fiction Writers
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