Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian Aldiss

Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian Aldiss

A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, hermaphroditic philosophers, ghostly apparitions and ambivalent gods. Jocasta is also a strikingly effective contemplation of an older world order where the human mind is still struggling to understand itself and the nature of the world around it.

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers' THE TELEGRAPH

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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ISBN 13	9780007482146
ISBN 10	0007482140
Title	Jocasta: Wife and Mother
Author	Brian Aldiss
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2014-12-04
Number of pages	200
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