6/3/2023 0 Comments Hothouse by Brian W. AldissThe only animals to survive within this jungle are certain species of giant eusocial insects and small groups of humans, reduced to a fifth of the size they are now. Many are now at least partly mobile, carnivorous or both, many evolving primitive nervous systems and, in some cases, even eyes and limbs. With the increased light and heat, plants have become Earth's dominant form of life: a single immense banyan fig covers the Earth's day side, and the smaller plants living within, on and around it are engaged in a constant frenzy of growth and decay. Hothouse is set in a far future, the Earth has become tidally locked with the Sun, which has swollen to fill half the sky. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth the full version was not published there until 1976. Aldiss, originally written as five novelettes serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961 before being collected and edited to become a single novel. Hothouse is a 1962 Science Fiction novel by Brian W.
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