What to read for Brian Aldiss next? I only read hothouse?
English is not my native language and have been struggling with this book for more than a week. I finally finished it. It was a hard journey. I read it during my midterm exams. Too many complicated words. The story doesn't stand for science or physics at all? Is it really Science fiction or more like fantasy? Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts, but I found others hard to follow. And here some of questions left gap on my mind?
1)What is the The sodal?
2)Who are these tummy-bellies creaures? Are they humans?
3)Could someone give a summary of the plot? Or drop a link for a summary?
3)did Yattmur give a birth to a baby? When? And why his father wanted to kill?
4)Who is this moral? Is a he a brain? Mind?
- What is the real plot of the book? Cuz I found it really hard to follow?
As I looked out into the distance, I could see it slowly marching towards me. A month ago, It was just a shimmer on the horizon. Now, I could make out the individual robot drones that together formed the swarm. Each one roughly car-sized, Thier top surfaces covered entirely with irridecent mirrors. They hualed themselves laboriously across the desert on tank-like caterpillar tracks. I watched as they jostled each other for position in the morning sunlight.
This was the last major project of the late Jack Monger. An oil sheikh who, on his deathbed in 2070, had left 10% of his trillion-dollar wealth to his Sahara solar-furnace project. The plan, so his company's green washing PR wing would like you to believe, was an ambitious new approach to tackling climate change. The large-scale geoengineering project aimed to build a massive structure, stretching from Cameroon to Djibouti, to halt the expansion of the desert.
I watched the jostling of the swarm became calmer and more organised as the robots spread out. They were now occupying several miles of desert. Like hot wax solidifying, the robots stopped in unison. Their solar-tracking mirrors moved to align perfectly to the rising sun.
Rays of light now concentrated on a single point at the centre of the swarm. It was too bright to look at with the naked eye, so I switched to filtered binoculars. I could see the area where the rays converged was a hive of activity. The robots stacked on top of each other, forming a pyramid-like mound in the desert. It seemed to pour, flow and shimmer, like a waterfall. It took me a moment to realise I was in fact looking at sand: being transported upwards by the ingenious interlocking and cooperation of the treads of each robot, sand was slowly being moved towards the apex of the mound. Switching to the darkest filter I could find, I could just make out the focal point at the top. Hidden in the centre of the blasting glare, sand was being melted down into a crude molten glass, and poured into forms. In a gigantic additive manufacturing process, tons of glass layers were being laid down, minute-by-minute. Away from the pyramid into the horizon, there stretched a thin line of the glass structure that had so-far been built.
The massive structure was like a long tunnel or archway, half-cylindrical in shape. Its walls were more than a metre thick at the base, though tapering towards the top, like the dome of the Roman pantheon. Inside, a canal ran the entire length of the
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I just finished Hothouse by Brian aldiss, It's was hard journry. what do you suggest next?
English is not my native language and have been struggling with this book for more than a week. I finally finished it. It was a hard journey. I read it during my midterm exams. Too many complicated words. The story doesn't stand for science or physics at all? Is it really Science fiction or more like fantasy? Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts, but I found others hard to follow. And here some of questions left gap on my mind?
1)What is the The sodal?
2)Who are these tummy-bellies creaures? Are they humans?
3)Could someone give a summary of the plot? Or drop a link for a summary?
3)did Yattmur give a birth to a baby? When? And why his father wanted to kill?
4)Who is this moral? Is a he a brain? Mind?
- What is the real plot of the book? Cuz I found it really hard to follow?
