Enemies of the System

By Brian W. Aldiss

Book Overview

In the far future, a group of evolved utopians stranded on an inhospitable planet are unable to resist the reemergence of the human animal One million years in the future, the universe has become a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380537931
• ISBN13: 9780380537938
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Avon 1981
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enemies of the System - SciFi tackles politics

Aldiss subtitled his book " a tale of homo-uniformis" and this is telling. The book tells of a group of overcivilised spacefarers marooned on a planet where people from their mollycoddled society have been marooned and subsequently gone wild.The 'natives' represent all the vibrant savagery and anarchistic creativity that the visitors have lost in their over organised, overdeveloped culture.The two different ways of life meet and interact, with challenging results, both sides leave the transaction changed and shaken up.This book examines themes relevant to our modern civilisation and the way that we may often feel lost when we come into contact with a simpler, more "primitive" way of life.The ending is typically Aldiss and satisfying, although I won't tell you what happens...