Talk:Hothouse (novel)

First Entry
Meet "Hothouse", by Brian Aldiss. Happy editing! Gardener of Geda  | Message Me.... 22:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

One of the best SF books ever written, in my opinion. ºººÇ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.174.24 (talk) 14:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Infobox bookcover
The one that is featured at the time of writing is the earliest one I could find. If anyone can find a first-edition cover that is usable, please upload it. Ta.  Gardener of Geda  | Message Me.... 17:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done ! GrahamHardy (talk) 21:24, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Did the Morel have a name?
I used to have a copy of The Long Afternoon of Earth, which I now know is an abbreviated version of Hothouse.   Since I don't know where I put my book, I can't look up the trivia I am looking for.

Did the Morel Mushroom Creature have a name? I am talking about the parasitic creature that sat on Gren's shoulders, and controlled his actions. It was able to talk to him, wasn't it?

It seems that the Morel seemed to have been inspired from the earlier book from Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters. Did Brian Aldiss ever admit to the source of his inspiration?Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 00:08, 21 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't recall a name for the mind fungus, but having only read Hothouse a long time ago, I'not sure. Your guess about the inspiration may well be correct, but the Puppet Masters weren't fungi so perhaps there was nothing to "admit".--Michael C. Price talk 05:04, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

I finish today this book (spanish translation) and I can assure that the morel dont have a name in the text —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcos314159 (talk • contribs) 21:37, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't know whether you previous commentators have ever seen, or dwelled upon the appearance of, any of the species of fungi that go loosely under the name "morel". Considering that the word translates into Swedish as "murkla", and the archetypical kind of those is the "stenmurkla" (or "False Morel", in English), I've always known what I'd call the one in this book: "Brain"!

Just look at this picture, for instance: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falsemorel.jpg. Also, I've always felt that if only Aldiss had managed to stuff a "circular time" motif in there, too, then this would, in that fictional reality, actually explain why our brains look like they do... And sometimes I wonder if, perhaps, this little tidbit actually was his way of at least alluding to just such a motif. :-)

But, to answer Dexter's question: It seems to me the morel both does and doesn't have an individual name: if it were just mentioned by its species, then it would be written with small letters. But at least in the Swedish translation, it's called not "murklan" ("the morel"), but "Murklan" ("The Morel"). So to me it seems that this particular specimen's name is the same as the species' name; i.e, this particular morel's name is The Morel. HTH! -- CRConrad (talk) 11:29, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Shore Dwellers?
What does the article mean about "shore dwellers"? Does it mean stuff like crabs and starfish, or more like small sharks and moray eels? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.128.11 (talk) 06:44, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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