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Hampden Ferrars is an obscure country village, not too distant from Oxford. Its village church, St Clements, is fifteen hundred years old, and some of the villagers decide that this record of continuity and stability should be celebrated. Many are the difficulties in the way. Foreigners arrive - in particular, two Chinese students and an Italian TV celebrity - and love affairs break out, some suitable, some less suitable. The atmosphere of romance engenders miracles. Slowly, the village becomes involved in magic. Ordinary lives are transformed. Then a threat emanates from within the church itself. The atmosphere darkens as the celebration committee has to decide who is really in command of the world. Brian Aldiss' novel brims with comic and sinister invention. The celebration is not only for St Clements but for Englishness, for the love of the foreign and for love itself.

From the author of DRACULA UNBOUND and A ROMANCE OF THE EQUATOR, a science fiction novel in which humanity on earth has become sterile because of radiation from atomic testing in space, and the ageing population ekes out an existence in the face of nature which now reclaims the towns and villages with wild vegetation.

In the Age of Vegetables the Earth and Moon no longer rotate, one face fixed towards a sun burning intensely before it goes nova. Humans live in the trees fending off attacks from vegetables that have developed animal characteristics, spinning webs like spiders or flying like birds. Gren and his companion journey to the dark side of the Earth under the direction of an intelligent fungus, while Lily-Yo finds hope on the Moon.

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down. Non-Stop is a classic Science Fiction novel of discovery and exploration.

'Super-State' is the Europe of 40 years' time where, despite technological advancement, the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists and a subversive group, the 'Insanatics', is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population.

A collection of short stories written in exactly 50 words, which tell of wild fantasies and dreams come true, of twists of fate and divine retribution, and of life after the apocalypse and life next door.