Hothouse (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: About 2 billion
- Setting: Various locations on Earth, and briefly the Moon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Spiders, Future, Earth, Moon or moons, Plants, Dolphins
- Locales: Earth, Moon
The Plot
After Earth ceases to rotate, plant life—much of it mobile and carnivorous—flourishes on the sunny side. Humans have devolved and live in small tribes amid gigantic forest branches. Hothouse follows the adventures of Gren and others as they cross land and sea from the fecund tropics to the barren twilight region.
When Lily-yo, the leader of young Grens matriarchal tribe, comes to believe that she is past her prime, she makes the traditional choice to “Go Up,” along with the other elders. On the topmost leaves of the jungle, mammoth spiderlike...
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