1959 novel by Brian Aldiss
The Canopy of Time is a collection of science fiction previously published short stories by English writer Brian W. Aldiss, first published in 1959 by Faber and Faber. The book was published in the United States (in an alternate form which Aldiss preferred) as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand.
Plot.
Aldiss describes historical time as “a treacherous mirror, reflecting only our limited truths.” The mirror reflecting the forty-million year history of the City of New Union has been shattered and the book presents only a handful of its shards. A brief introduction ties each story to the previous one:
Reception.
Floyd C. Gale described the book as "a Stapletonesque Long View of Man's future".
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