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Title:

Ruins
 

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Fiction (General)

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1987-00-00 Hutchinson & Co, London  

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Blurb: 
Ruins exemplifies the novella form - and shows Brian Aldiss at the top of his writing powers. Departing from the science fiction arena in which his reputation has chiefly derived, he tells the story of a sad and self-absorbed everyman who recovers simply by acknowledging the power of the human spirit. In a relentless peeling-away of the trappings of modern affluence, Brian Aldiss has made a powerful, distilled fiction which travels the cathartric road of human quest - from aimlessness down into destruction and on into survival and hope.