7169 f4fd5094-5fa2-4c9c-aa68-1e29c5bf7025 Greybeard Brian Aldiss calibre (0.8.28) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1972-01-01T13:00:00+00:00 <div><h3></h3><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A haunting vision of a post-apocalyptic England.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.</span></p><h3><br></h3><h3>Review</h3><p>'Greybeard is one of those hidden gems, a rare find that makes you kick yourself for not discovering it sooner, a masterful piece of literary science fiction and a poignant tale of human mortality.' (5/5 stars) SFBOOK 'brilliant and highly recommended' SFFWORLD.COM </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Brian Aldiss is an SF/fantasy author who has achieved the rare success of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. He lives near Oxford. </p></div> Gollancz 0575071133 9780575071131 eng SciFi-Masterwork