The Sun Is About To Go Nova. Earth And Moon Have Ceased Their Axial Rotation And Present One Face Continuously To The Sun. The Bright Side Of Earth Is Covered With Carnivorous Forest. This Is The Age Of Vegetables. Gren And His Lady - Not To Mention The Tummybelly Men - Journey To The Even More Terrifying Dark Side. One Of Aldiss' Most Famous And Long-enduring Novels, Fast Moving, Packed With Brilliant Imagery. A Hugo Award{u2013}winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remain Millions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning{u2014}and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become small and weak, and their numbers have dwindled to almost nothing. When the aging leader of Gren{u2019}s tribe decrees it is time for the old ones to go ?Up,? the younger are left to make their own way below. Although the journey will not be an easy one for young Gren, he sets off on an odyssey across a perilous world populated by carnivorous plants and other evolved vegetation. But any knowledge to be gained at the terminator{u2014}the forbidding boundary between the day world and the night{u2014}might well prove worthless for the boy and the companions he amasses along the way when the expanding sun goes nova and their Earth is no more. A thrilling parable of courage, discovery, and survival, Hothouse is among Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss{u2019}s most beloved and enduring works. Ingeniously inventive, richly detailed, and breathtakingly lush and vibrant, the doomed world and people that Aldiss creates will live forever in the minds of all those who enter this remarkable realm In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life. Contents: Hothouse Brian W. Aldiss nv F&SF Feb 61 Nomansland Brian W. Aldiss nv F&SF Apr 61 Undergrowth Brian W. Aldiss na F&SF Jul 61 Timberline Brian W. Aldiss nv F&SF Sep 61 Evergreen Brian W. Aldiss na F&SF Dec 61 When the sun expands, Earth becomes a hothouse where plants and insects flourish as monstrous predators. Survivors of the nova catastrophe, developed humans Gren and Yattmur go on a dangerous voyage to explore their apparently doomed planet THE LAST DAYS OF MAN Under a dying sun, monstrous sentient plants and carnivorous insects are the predators. Man is the prey...
