The Detached Retina

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The Detached Retina is written by Brian W. Aldiss and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815603703 (ISBN 10) and 9780815603702 (ISBN 13).

In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world's preeminent science fiction writers explores a wide range of science fiction and fantasy writers and writings. The contents and themes include a letter to Salvador Dali . . . Mary Shelley and Frankenstein . . . the Immanent Will and Olaf Stapledon . . . the work of Philip K. Dick . . . Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon . . . Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four . . . James Blish . . . Culture: Is it Worth Losing Your Balls For? . . . Wells and the Leopard Lady . . . H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Music of Erich Zann' . . . Jekyll . . . the differences between United States and United Kingdom fantasy . . . Anna Kavan as 'Kafka's Sister' . . . Campbell's Soup (Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John Wood Campbell) . . . science fiction's relationship to science and literature in general.