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Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian science fiction novel by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss. The novel draws its premise from prevalent fears about population growth and overcrowding of the Earth.
Earthworks is a bleak and hallucinatory vision of Malthusian over-population, enlarged from the novella Skeleton Crew, where criminals are condemned to work on the polluted land. Knowle Noland decides in the end that to precipitate world war might be a way of starting over again: more a sixties solution than an eighties one.
Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which j Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong.
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7. Juni 2018 · It is narrated by Knowle Noland, a man who knows no land, sentenced to endlessly crossing seas on a tanker gathering sand from abandoned “dumps like the Skeleton Coast” and transporting it to remaining civilized ports (Aldiss mentions Liverpool, the then-hip birthplace of the Beatles).
Earthworks. (1965) A novel by Brian Aldiss. Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which j Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong.
A world gone dry. A world of horror where literacy and thought are for machines only. Where cities are beehives built on stilts to protect them from the chemicals which grow crops. Where penal institutions are collective farms. Where petty infractions condemn men to work for the rest of their lives alongside robots tilling the dead soil.
A discussion of Robert Smithson's account of his venture to his home town of Passaic, New Jersey, and his affiliation with Brian Aldiss' sci-fi novel Earthworks in relation to his and the British author's mutual (yet unknown to each.
