HOTHOUSE

Hothouse

Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of 5 novelettes that were originally serialised in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. Five of the stories which make up the novel, which were published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, were collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.

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Hot House

"Hot House" is a bebop standard, composed by American jazz musician Tadd Dameron in 1945. Its harmonic structure is identical to Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?." The tune was made famous by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker as a quintet arrangement and become synonymous with those musicians; "Hot House" became an anthem of the Be-bop movement in American jazz. The most famous and referred to recording of the tune is by Parker and Gillespie on the May 1953 live concert recording entitled Jazz at Massey Hall. The tune continues to be a favorite among jazz musicians and enthusiasts:

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hothouse

Noun

  1. A heated greenhouse.
  2. An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.
  3. A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
  4. A heated room for drying greenware.

Verb

  1. To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.


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