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      BRIAN ALDISS

      Report on Probability A

       Those who seek for revelation become themselves a revelation

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber 1968

      Copyright © Brian Aldiss 2015

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      Source ISBN: 9780007482405

      Ebook Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 9780007482412

      Version: 2015-08-28

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       PART ONE: G Who Waits

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

      

       Chapter Six

      

       PART TWO: S The Watchful

      

       Chapter One

      

       Chapter Two

      

       Chapter Three

      

       Chapter Four

      

       Chapter Five

      

       Chapter Six

      

       PART THREE: The House and The Watchers

      

       Chapter One

      

       Chapter Two

      

       Chapter Three

      

       Chapter Four

      

       About the Author

      

       Also by Brian Aldiss

      

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

       Chapter One

      The Report begins:

      One afternoon early in a certain January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost or wind; the trees in the garden did not stir. There was no rain, although anybody accustomed to predicting rain might have forecast it with a fair expectation of being right before nightfall. Cloud lay thickly over the sky. The face of the sun was not visible. Consequently, shadows had no form.

      A single window on the north-west side of the house reflected the light back in a dull fashion, without movement, except once when the reflection of a pigeon, wheeling above the garden, splashed across it. No movement came from the house. No sound came from the house.

      G lived not in the house but in a wooden bungalow in the garden, overlooked by the window set high in the north-west side of the house. The bungalow, which contained only one room, measured about five by four metres, being longer than it was deep. It was raised above the ground on low pillars of brick. It was constructed of planks arranged vertically on the front and rear and horizontally on the sides. Its roof was also of planks, covered by asphalt; the asphalt was secured in place by large flat-headed nails which dug into the black material. Cracks ran round many of the nails.

      The wooden bungalow had two windows. These were fitted in its front wall, one on either side of a door. This was the only door. It did not fit well. The windows contained large single panes of