The Inner Landscape Author:Mervyn Peake, J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss Three outstanding stories from S.F.'s most inventive writers. An anthology collection of a novelette and 2 novella short science fiction stories--presents a stimulating, entertaining and energetic approach to SF and brings to connoisseurs and lovers of science fiction, strange exciting stories...works ranging from the fantastic to the ... more »prophetic, from the provocative to the frivolous plus voyages of exploration and inquiry.
Contents:
Boy in Darkness [Gormenghast] (1956) / novella by Mervyn Peake: A Boy runs away from his castle home and finds himself in the company of Hyena and Goat, the two beastly henchman of the blind Lamb, a creature of evil who imposes his dark will on his deserted empire, the Mine.
The Voices of Time (1960) / novelette by J. G. Ballard: an apocalyptic view of a terrible new Evolution (or Devolution) faced by the human race and echoed by signals from distant stars.
Danger: Religion! (1962) / novella by Brian W. Aldiss: A history professor is pulled into a parallel dimension and asked to participate in a war, but when he sees the nature of this alternate reality he decides to do something about it.