Jocasta: Wife and Mother

In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, hermaphroditic philosophers, ghostly apparitions and ambivalent gods. Jocasta is also a strikingly effective contemplation of an older world order where the human mind is still struggling to understand itself and the nature of the world around it.

About the author

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Aldiss, Brian W. Aldiss
• Publisher: The Friday Project
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9780007482146
• ISBN: 978-0-00-748214-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, FICTION / Mashups, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Classic science fiction, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Monsters & Legendary Beings, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient Greek and Roman literature