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"My God, he’s committed science fiction!"

"The Drowned World rejects the concept of supplanting an outmoded political system with another similar, but smaller-scale, structure, by instead viewing the catastrophe as an absolute transformative event that temporarily reveals to his protagonist the latent content of the apocalyptic imagination prior to the personal apocalypse of death." --C Daley, "The Not So Cozy Catastrophe"

"Aldiss’s novel uses the Verbal Transformation Effect first identified by Chris Evans, et.al. in their paper 'Auditory "stabilized images"; fragmentation and distortion of words with repeated presentation'..."

"JOB INTERVIEW WITH A CAT

Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?
The warmth, perhaps? The security?
Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless?
Feel free to expand if you wish.

I see you have had experience of similar positions.
Can you talk about a time when you got someone’s tongue?
Or were set amongst the pigeons?
Have you ever found yourself in a bag only then to be let out of it?

Tell me, how would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks?
What about a tin roof of similar temperature?
With reference to any of your past lives,
has curiosity ever killed you?

Finally, where do you see yourself in five years?
In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight?
Or would you like to be where I am now?
Oh, it appears you already are."

--Brian Bilston

Last Letter to You.