brucec@orca.UUCP (Master of the Belvedere) (08/08/84)
---------- >> I also really was impressed with Amis' "The Alteration", which is a really >> marvelous "Alternative History" book from someone you wouldn't think would >> be fooling around with the genre. I haven't read "The Alteration," but I'm not suprised that Amis was fooling around with alternate histories; he wrote a critical study of science-fiction called "New Maps of Hell" back in the sixties (give or take a few years). It was quite readable, though not always accurate as to facts of publication. I've heard that Amis and Brian Aldiss have been friends and correspondents for many years, and in fact I've seen what seem like Amis' influences in some of Aldiss' writing. So Amis is connected to "speculative fiction" both in his own work and his connection to others. Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!tektronix!orca!brucec CSNET: orca!brucec@tektronix ARPA: orca!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay USMail: M/S 61-183 Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 1000 Wilsonville, OR 97070