Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

"Daniel Frankham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.

Also End of the World News featuring a singing Leon Trotsky IIRC.