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    <body><![CDATA[Written in 1962, Brian Aldiss' Hothouse is similar to works like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5376.Jack_Vance" title="Jack Vance">Jack Vance</a>'s &quot;Dying Earth&quot; series and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23069.Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a>'s Book of the New Sun. In most novels of this dying earth genre, the world is gasping under the weight of civilization; a million years of customs and artifacts, countless empi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79932910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What is there to say but this: it read like a Brian Aldiss story.<br/><br/>Much like some of his other work I've read, there sometimes is this feeling of trudging through the story; that if you don't force your way through that point in the narrative that you will probably put the book down and ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74443248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorites of all-time. I heard about this in my last year of college when I took a class called &quot;The Meaning of Gardens.&quot; We spent one day a week discussing the readings and another working in the garden at Fairchild Gardens in Coral Gables, Florida. I found Hothouse to b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18679826">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hallucinatory 60s novel, possibly written on drugs, which depicts a far-future Earth in which humans have evolved into tiny creatures who live in a giant forest that covers the globe. Oh, and there are spider-webs that stretch up to the moon... a sort of biological space elevator. Read the book to f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38770742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high expectations after reading Non-Stop, and perhaps Hothouse let me down a bit.  It is similar, although most of the book is about the confusing directionless journey undertaken by one of the characters, which left me lost quite a lot so I didn't like it that much.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic sci-fi in the post-apocalyptic genre.  Not too deep, not too perfect a piece of prose but stays with you.  Like a strong curry.  A good one to read on the crapper.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's probably been close to a decade since I've read this book and the image of the earth and the moon shrouded together by gigantic spiderwebs still sticks with me.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 to 5.0 stars. Tremendous world-building taking place in a far future earth in which plants have developed into the dominant species and taken on the characteristics of predators (including eating mammals and moving). Reminded me of the plant equivalent of Willy Wonka Meets Frankenstein. The desc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29775955">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Giant plants and bugs, spiderwebs that stretch between the earth and moon, and morels that outsmart humans. Hilarious. (I don't think it is supposed to be!)]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.<br/><br/>Contents:<br/><br/>· Hothouse · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Feb ’61 <br/>· Nomansland · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Apr ’61 <br/>· Undergrowth · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Jul ’61 <br/>· Timberline · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Sep ’61 <br/>· Evergreen · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Dec ’61]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favourites, no particular reason, read it at an impressionable age, good concept]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the concept of this book. Set in the distant future it shows what Man could end up devolving into. Some science fiction - a great deal of it - presents a glossy white future with fantasic space craft carrying highly evolved humans to whom the bulk of the galaxy doff their caps in admiration;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4687972">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.<br/><br/>Contents:<br/><br/>· Hothouse · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Feb ’61 <br/>· Nomansland · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Apr ’61 <br/>· Undergrowth · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Jul ’61 <br/>· Timberline · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Sep ’61 <br/>· Evergreen · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Dec ’61]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This rich, descriptive novel imagines a future Earth where the sun's heat has increased to such a degree that animal-like plants rule the planet and the planet is covered by forest hundreds of feet tall.<br/><br/>This is one of several books that is represented in a visual encyclopedia of science fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15019113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.<br/><br/>Contents:<br/><br/>· Hothouse · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Feb ’61 <br/>· Nomansland · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Apr ’61 <br/>· Undergrowth · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Jul ’61 <br/>· Timberline · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&amp;SF Sep ’61 <br/>· Evergreen · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&amp;SF Dec ’61]]>
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  <date_added>Sat May 10 22:06:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the sense of escape I got from this book.  The ideas were often brilliant and inspired.  I would definitely recommend this.  Ingenious plot development, if not some scary physics that might ruin it for some (the proverbial willful suspension of disbelief).  Very enjoyable novel, and an extre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22007829">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Hothouse]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with brilliant imagery.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[How did this win a Hugo?  Was there no other competition?  The prose in this book was rambling and the direction of the story was....Well, there was no direction to the story.  It introduced some weird possible animals bur for all intents and purposes, this book was a flop!  ]]></body>
    
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