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Hothouse

Hothouse
Brian W. Aldiss

Hothouse is a 1962 science fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss, composed of five novelettes that were originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976.

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“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”

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Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)

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“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”

Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse

Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18

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“It [i. e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.”

Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse

Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 22

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“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”

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Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23

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