A most entertaining volume of memoir from a legend of science fiction. A writer's life can be exciting, unexpected, routine, lonely - and sometimes all on the same day! Brian Aldiss recounts the highs and lows of his professional career in this entertaining and revealing book. Here are his adventures with publishers, booksellers, agents, other authors, and readers. Here are some of the complex questions of what makes and sustains a successful modern writer. The tales he tells are wry, witty, informative ...
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A most entertaining volume of memoir from a legend of science fiction. A writer's life can be exciting, unexpected, routine, lonely - and sometimes all on the same day! Brian Aldiss recounts the highs and lows of his professional career in this entertaining and revealing book. Here are his adventures with publishers, booksellers, agents, other authors, and readers. Here are some of the complex questions of what makes and sustains a successful modern writer. The tales he tells are wry, witty, informative - beginning with his first job at the Oxford bookshop that was to be the setting for his first book of fiction, The Brightfount Diaries, and ending as he undergoes one of the most gruelling experiences of a writer's life: the publication of a new novel, in this case his brilliant Forgotten Life.
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Seller's Description:
Fine. Octavo, 221pp. A fine, unmolested copy in the publisher's red printed wraps. Two small stickers on the half-title contain an address and a generic typed note from the publisher, indicating this was likely used as a review copy. A literary memoir of sorts from the prolific science fiction author. The only proof we found in commerce at the time of listing.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; #49 of 250 signed, numbered, limited first edition copies. Signed by Aldiss at the limitation page. Green cloth with gold spine titling, very good with one small sticker remnant each to front and back covers. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar, clean and bright with light edgewear. Pages lightly toned and foxed throughout; else clean.
