Title: The Long Afternoon of Earth
Title Record # 118
Author: Brian Aldiss
Date: 1962-01-00
Variant Title of: Hothouse (1962) (by Brian W. Aldiss) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Hothouse
Language: English
Current Tags: Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), panspermia (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), moon (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), insects (1), evolution (1), locked rotation (1), science fiction (1), fungi (1), science fantasy (1)
Author: Brian Aldiss
Date: 1962-01-00
Variant Title of: Hothouse (1962) (by Brian W. Aldiss) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Hothouse
Language: English
Note: This fixup novel was published, in slightly different form, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in 5 installments.
The titles of the installments and their mapping to chapters in the novel are as follows:
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- "Hothouse" • (1961) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss • Chapters 1-6
- "Nomansland" • (1961) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss • Chapters 6-10
- "Undergrowth" • (1961) • novella by Brian W. Aldiss • Chapters 11-17
- "Timberline" • (1961) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss • Chapters 18-21
- "Evergreen" • (1961) • novella by Brian W. Aldiss • Chapters 22-26
- First third of Chapter 14
- Last third of Chapter 18
- Four paragraphs in Chapter 25
Current Tags: Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), panspermia (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), moon (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), insects (1), evolution (1), locked rotation (1), science fiction (1), fungi (1), science fantasy (1)
Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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1 (as The Long Afternoon of Earth) | 1962 Hugo | Best Short Fiction |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Long Afternoon of Earth | 1962-01-00 | Brian Aldiss | Signet / New American Library | D2018 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | 1971-03-00 | Brian Aldiss | Signet / New American Library of Canada | T4557 | C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | 1979-07-00 | Brian Aldiss | Signet / New American Library | 0-451-08575-2 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | 1981-03-00 | Brian Aldiss | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 5853 | $3.98?$: US dollar |
217 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony Fiyalko | |
The Long Afternoon of Earth | 1985-08-00 | Brian Aldiss | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 05853 | 217 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony Fiyalko | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | date unknown | Brian Aldiss | Signet | 0-451-08575-2 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | date unknown | Brian Aldiss | Signet / New American Library | T4557 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Long Afternoon of Earth | date unknown | Brian Aldiss | Signet | 0-451-08575-2 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by S. E. Cotts (1962) in Amazing Stories, May 1962
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, June 1962
- Review by Floyd C. Gale (1962) in Galaxy Magazine, October 1962 , reprinted in:
- Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 94 October 1962 (1962)