Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of 5 novelettes that were originally serialized in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. Five of the stories which make up the novel, which were published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, were collectively awar...
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Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of 5 novelettes that were originally serialized in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. Five of the stories which make up the novel, which were published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, were collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.
Earth, with one side constantly facing the sun (larger and hotter than now), is a veritable hothouse, where plants have filled almost all ecological niches. According to Aldiss's account, the US publisher insisted on the name-change so the book wouldn't be put amongst the horticulture books in bookshops.
Set in a far future, the earth has locked rotation with the Sun, and is attached to the now-more-distant Moon with cobweb spun by enormous spider-like plants. The Sun has increased output and...
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