Abstract
Brian W. Aldiss, in his book This World and Nearer Ones, connects the temporal fragmentation of modern consciousness with the success of the Manhattan Project and the subsequent bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The advent of the atomic bomb, Aldiss maintains, was an event which developed simultaneously on both macroscopic and microscopic levels, rupturing man's philosophical conception of himself in his world. On the public (macroscopic) level. the devastation caused by the bomb's usage could be glossed over by the sweeping generalities of political ideology, while on the private (microscopic) level, individuals were now burdened with an inescapable guilt resulting from the arrival of the "atomic age" and its effects on modern civilization.
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