More Aldiss; compare Space, Time and Nathaniel. Nominally, per title, a kind-of-future-history; really the connections are so tenuous as to not exist.I don't know where this sits in his history. Mercifully, the 1950s suburbia of ST&N is gone. A number of them have man being "replaced", most clearly in my mind the last one (VA). These are all dubiously teleological: the world just doesn't work like that. The sentient-cells or whatever calls to mind the similarly unsatisfying Blood Music.
Most of these are faded, doomed to disappear into the past and be forgotten. Perhaps "All the World’s Tears" might survive?
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