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Burnell, a culture preservationist, travels throughout the world appealing to the masses to consider the detriment of war and human folly, and trying to locate a ten-year piece of his memory that has been stolen and sold as soft porn
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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.
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Completing the loose series that Aldiss calls the "Squire Quartet" (Life in the West; Forgotten Life; Remembrance Day), this rather discursive, near-future tale follows the wanderings of Roy Burnell, a British architectural historian. Ten years of Burnell's memories are stolen by EMV ("e-mnemonicvision") thieves in Budapest, and while he tries to resume his life he also searches for a copy of the memory "bullet" that will restore his lost years. His desultory search, broken up by unsought adventure in Central Asia, carries Burnell through an early-21st century world in which life appears very familiar, though many of our current troubles (ethnic wars, poor economies) persist or have gotten worse. The plot is perfunctory, but plot is rarely Aldiss's strong suit or point. What's really offered here is a witty, well-observed travelogue that reveals the state of the world, as well as a fascinating exploration of character. A fin-de-siecle atmosphere pervades; Burnell and those he meets ruminate on the nature of memory and personality, history and human nature, the "moral emptiness" of modern times and their compensatory pleasures. Aldiss weaves these thoughts into a delightful and sometimes harrowing story, proving once again that science fiction can illuminate vital matters of the present as effectively as any genre.
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- PublisherCarroll & Graf Pub
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0786700742
- ISBN 13 9780786700745
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages391
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Somewhere East of Life is a rambunctious black comedy for the nineties. Burnell is a retiring guy who operates out of Germany, attempting to hold the world together culturally. He moves around the more outrageous parts of the globe, listing architectural gems threatened by war, history, and human awfulness. Such is man's ingenuity to man, that Burnell is also threatened. Someone has stolen a chunk of his memory - ten years, in fact. This chunk, including the more salacious bits, such as Burnell's marriage to Stephanie, has been chopped up and sold to lovers of soft porn everywhere. Trying both to continue work and recover his missing years, Burnell is sent to long lost parts of the old Soviet Empire, such as a corner of Georgia, where civil war rages, and Turkmenistan in Central Asia, which proves stranger than we had any right to expect. Along the way, the unfortunate Burnell tangles with a number of odd characters, a valuable icon, bargain-price sex, and a worthless bridge. Dj, heavy. 391 pages. Seller Inventory # 1444326
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