BRIAN ALDISS
The Male Response
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Contents
‘To travel is to discover everyone is wrong’
Aldous Huxley
I should like to thank the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, whose invaluable articles on ‘Africa’, ‘Computing Machines’ and ‘Sex’ I consulted before daring to attempt this story. My chapter headings are quotations from the ‘Ode to Autumn’, by John Keats, to whom I would also have liked to offer thanks.
For advice on the contents of this novel I communicated with celebrated author Aldous Huxley, then living on the western shores of the U.S.A., whose responses proved very helpful.
Brian W. Aldiss
Oxford, 2015
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