Synopsis
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of human children.
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About the Author
Brian W. Aldiss (1925 - 2017)Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Billion Year Spree (later expanded and revised as Trillion Year Spree). He died in 2017 the day after his 92nd birthday.
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brilliant and highly recommended * SFFWORLD.COM * 'Greybeard is one of those hidden gems, a rare find that makes you kick yourself for not discovering it sooner, a masterful piece of literary science fiction and a poignant tale of human mortality.' (5/5 stars) * SFBOOK *
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Greybeard
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Penguin / Roc, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 0140173544
ISBN 13: 9780140173543
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Keith Scaife (illustrator). Paperback First Edition. 207pp. Cover by Keith Scaife. Unused unread book, minimal shelfwear, no owner's marks. Faint foxing to edges. In a world where ecological disaster had turned the English countryside into a depopulated wasteland, Greybeard and his wife Martha set out to harvest the scarcest and most precious resource of all: living human children. 130g. (Science fiction, Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Post-Holocaust). Seller Inventory # C11233
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