Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

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

_The End of the World News_ contains several stories running in
parallel, among them one based on early psychiatrists (Freud et al);
one however is SFnal, dealing with the response to the world being hit
by something big (asteroid, comet? I forget) - and the response to it.
IIRC a small group survive on some sort of multi-generation
spaceship).

I once exchanged words with Burgess. Sadly not of any moment. 

Andrew Woode