“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
Quotes from bookHothouse
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.
“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
“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”
Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 5
