The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy

We devotees of SF enjoy its diversity of opinion, the bustle of bright and dark, the clash of progress and entropy, the clamour of theories about the past, the future, the ever-present present, everything. In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world's pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writing.

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Thanks for Drowning the Ocelot	p. 8
'A Robot Tended Your Remains...'	p. 16
Between Privy and Universe: Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)	p. 31
The Immanent Will Returns - 2	p. 37
A Whole New Can of Worms	p. 44
Science Fiction's Mother Figure	p. 52
Sturgeon: The Cruelty of the Gods	p. 87
The Downward Journey: Orwell's 1984	p. 92
Peep	p. 101
Culture: Is It Worth Losing Your Balls for?	p. 106
Wells and the Leopard Lady	p. 116
The Adjectives of Erich Zann: A Tale of Horror	p. 128
Jekyll	p. 131
One Hump Or Two	p. 133
Kafka's Sister	p. 137
Campbell's Soup	p. 145
Some Early Men in the Moon	p. 150
Kaliyuga, Or Utopia at a Bad Time	p. 159
The Atheists Tragedy Revisited	p. 170
The Pale Shadow of Science	p. 177
Decadence and Development	p. 187
The Veiled World	p. 192
A Personal Parabola	p. 199
Index	p. 213
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