Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:40:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin campbell)
wrote:

>Anthony Burgess had at least two other SF books. THE WANTING SEED  is
>similar to CLOCKWORK ORANGE and postulates a government that promotes
>homosexuality in order to curtail population growth.  ENDERBY is about
>time-travel tourists who visit the Great Author's apartment back in the
>days before he was famous.

I wouldn't say it was about the time tourists (actually a class of
English lit students IIRC) - they only appear in the first chapter.
(Admittedly I've only read the first Enderby book; it's possible they
play a larger role in the later volumes.) 

They make _Inside Mr Enderby_ a mainstream novel with a
science-fictional opening chapter, which must be just about unique for
the 1950s.

Burgess also wrote _1985_, a decline-of-society dystopia.

-- 
Daniel Frankham