The Dark Light Years
Author: Brian Aldiss
 
'Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.'
At least, that's what Master Space Explorer Ainson thought! That was before man stumbled unexpectedly on an alien race. They looked at it rather differently. They believed that civilisation was the proximity of man to his own excreta.
It was strange. Man could never communicate with the aliens. Yet, somehow, their ideas communicated themselves only too easily. In no time at all Earth was devastated by a terrible conflict!
 
NEL PUBLICATION MARCH 1975 EDITION
ISBN: 0450023060