The Canopy of Time

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction Short Stories

Also known as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand.

The Canopy of Time presents the history of our future. It is Brian Aldiss's brilliant, epic chronicle of mankind's next 40 million years. From the end of the ultimate race war, it traces man's evolution through the unimagined heights of civilization to the final dissoultion of the galaxy itself.

Contents:

  • Out of Reach
  • All the World's Tears
  • But Who Can Replace a Man?
  • Blighted Profile
  • O Ishrail!
  • Incentive
  • Gene-Hive
  • Secret of a Mighty City
  • Visiting Amoeba
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Published
1959
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Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (1925-2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula…