Rating: Not rated
Tags: Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
An unending chain of surveillance
crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing,
and groundbreaking “antinovel” by one of science
fiction’s greatest practitioners. Mr. Mary and his wife are being
observed from at least three vantage points as they go about
their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches
them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary’s dismissed
secretary, S, watches them from the top room of a brick
outhouse in the back. The chauffeur, C, who no longer drives,
watches the Marys from the garage. Each observer must file a report with
his superiors in another continuum, pausing in his
surveillance only long enough to eat identical meals alone at
the deserted café across the street. But the watchers are themselves being
observed by others who are, in turn, being watched across
vast and infinite dimensional planes in an attempt to unravel
the mysteries of the world known as Probability A. This brilliant, experimental work by
Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss is a perplexing and
devastatingly haunting masterwork of speculative fiction,
considered by many to be the greatest work in the long,
prolific career of a true giant of the genre.
Thought-provoking, confounding, and stylistically brilliant,
Report on Probability A will burn its way into the
reader’s mind and memory.