Books: Cornered Future

FULL CIRCLE—John Collier—Appleton

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Like his compatriot and contemporary, Eric Linklater (TIME, March 27), young English Author John Collier refuses to be pigeonholed just yet. Because his first novel (His Monkey Wife) was an amusing extravaganza readers must not expect his second to be the same kind of thing. Full Circle is a tale of the future (end of the 20th Century), but the future of Collier's story has nothing in common with the mechanized Utopia of H. G. Wells's romances or Aldous Huxley's satire. Some readers may think Full Circle extravagant but few...