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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.
Earthworks. Brian W. Aldiss. 3.05. 401 ratings58 reviews. 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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The future Earth of Brian Aldiss's Earthworks is a moribund ecological disaster, ruined by poisons, greed, unsustainable development and overpopulation. Mankind is broken, starving, wracked with disease and divided by bitter social injustice.
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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 : a science fiction novel by Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-Publication date 1965 Topics Science fiction, English Publisher London : Faber and Faber Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet A ...
Brian Aldiss was born in Dereham, Norfolk in 1925. His father ran a department store. He served in the Royal Signals Corps during World War II. After the army, he worked in a book shop in Oxford, which became the basis for his first novel, The Brightfount Diaries.