Hi Andy,
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Andrew M. Butler wrote:
> > Anny, try Christopher Priest's _The Inverted World_ (1972), if you haven't
> > already. It's a delightfully mindboggling read, and considered by Clute
> > and Nicholls, among others, to be one of the three most important British
> > novels since WWII.
>
> Never quite saw it as that important, but its a lovely idea which twists
> around and inverts itself as it were.
>
> One of the three - do tell, were the others by Ballard and Aldiss?
Well, I went back to check Clute's and Nicholls's Encyclopedia of SF, and
I found that I had misremembered it. They say that _The Inverted World_
"remains one of the two or three most impressive pure-sf novels produced
in the UK since WWII." So it wasn't as if they had provided a list.
I would guess, though, that Ballard and Aldiss are up there. They do add
that _Inverted World_ is in part an homage to Aldiss's _Non-Stop_.
Cheers,
Fiona
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