Cryptozoic!
First published as "An Age" in 1967 but the title was changed to "Cryptozoic!" in 1968.
Serialised in three parts in New Worlds, October, November and December 1967.
Bush materialised in the prehistoric shore... and the drama began.
For Bush was a mind-traveller, moving through time like a phantom... and haunted by a phantom, The Dark Woman. Was she a ghost from his future, or the product of a mind strained beyond endurance? Bush had other problems: emerging from the Devonian past into a totalitarian future he was trained to kill, sent back in time to assassinate a man who threatened the future.
This brilliant examination of the relationship between men and time is simultaneously a serious novel on that fascinating subject and a tense psychosexual thriller.
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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 Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.
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