Aldiss, Brian W(ilson) | Philip Smith (review date 1982)
Philip Smith (review date 1982)
SOURCE: A review of Foreign Bodies, in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review, No. 7, September, 1982, p. 16.
[In the following review, Smith notes the Asian emphasis in Foreign Bodies, and maintains that the collection is comprised of "minor stories from a major writer. "]
Brian Aldiss claims that he is the first person to introduce the East into SF. Since his service in Asia during World War I, he has had a passionate interest in the region which he has expressed not only in his SF but also in two of his three novels about Horatio Stubbs, A Soldier Erect (1971) and A Rude Awakening (1978). The latter novel, Aldiss says in an author's note in Foreign Bodies, has a close resemblance to The Malacia Tapestry (1976): "Fantasy is reality in fancy dress."
The stories in Foreign Bodies and Aldiss's decision to have them published in Singapore...
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