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Moreau's Other Island

by Brian Aldiss
Moreau's Other Island by Brian Aldiss
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Also known as An Island Called Moreau. An updating of the H. G. Wells classic, The Island of Dr. Moreau, in the manner of Frankenstein Unbound.

New Master, New Man...

He stands very tall, long prosthetic limbs glistening in the harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip clasped in artificial hands. Man-beasts cower on the sand as he brandishes his gum in the air...

He is Dr Moreau, ruler of a fabulous, grotesque island, where humans are as brutes and brutes as humans, where the future of the entire human race is being reprogrammed. The place of untold horrors, The place of the New man...

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Release date: 1980

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Brian Aldiss

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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Aldiss is the author of science fiction classics including Hothouse, Non-Stop, Greybeard and Helliconia trilogy (Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer and Helliconia Winter).

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