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Brian Aldiss

(Brian Wilson Aldiss)

(1925 - )

About Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss is one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. Adored for his innovative literary techniques, evocative plots and irresistible characters, he became a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999. Brian Aldiss recently celebrated his eightieth birthday and is still writing to ardent applause.

Series

Squire Quartet
1. Life in the West (1980)
2. Forgotten Life (1988)
3. Remembrance Day (1993)
4. Somewhere East of Life (1994)

Helliconia Trilogy
1. Helliconia Spring (1982)
2. Helliconia Summer (1983)
3. Helliconia Winter (1985)
Helliconia Trilogy (omnibus) (1985)

Novels

Starswarm (1954)
The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
Starship (1958)
Non-Stop (1958)
Vanguard from Alpha (1959)
No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)
Bow Down to Nul (1960)
aka The Interpreter
The Long Afternoon of Earth (1961)
The Male Response (1961)
The Primal Urge (1961)
Hothouse (1962)
The Dark Light Years (1964)
Greybeard (1964)
Earthworks (1965)
Cryptozoic! (1967)
An Age (1967)
Report on Probability A (1968)
Neanderthal Planet (1969)
Barefoot in the Head (1969)
The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)
A Soldier Erect (1971)
Comic Inferno (1973)
Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
The Eighty-minute Hour (1974)
The Malacia Tapestry (1976)
The Horatio Stubbs Saga (1978)
A Rude Awakening (1978)
Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (1978)
Moreau's Other Island (1980)
An Island Called Moreau (1981)
Farewell to a Child (1983)
Ruins (1986)
Tales from the Planet Earth: A Novel with Nineteen Authors (1986) (with Lino Aldani, Karl-Michael Armer, Jon Bing, Andre Carneiro, A Bertram Chandler, Ljuben Dilov, Tong Enzheng, Carlos Maria Federici, Harry Harrison, Sam J Lundwall, Joseph Nesvadba, Frederik Pohl, Spider Robinson, Tetsu Yano, Ye Yonglie and Janusz A Zajdel)
Cracken at Critical (1987)
The Year before Yesterday (1987)
Sex and the Black Machine (1988)
Dracula Unbound (1990)
White Mars (1999) (with Roger Penrose)
aka The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia
Cretan Teat (2001)
Super-State (2002)
Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004)
Jocasta: Wife And Mother (2004)
Sanity and the Lady (2005)
HARM (2007)

Omnibus

A Brian Aldiss Omnibus (1969)

Collections

Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957)
But Who Can Replace Man? (1958)
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959)
aka The Canopy of Time
The Airs of Earth (1963)
Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian Aldiss (1965)
Who Can Replace a Man? (1966)
The Saliva Tree: And Other Strange Growths (1966)
The Inner Landscape (1969) (with J G Ballard and Mervyn Peake)
Intangibles Inc.: And Other Stories (1969)
The Moment of Eclipse (1970)
The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972)
Equator: Best Fantasy Stories (1973)
Last Orders: And other stories (1977)
Brothers of the head: And, Where the lines converge (1977)
Pile: Petals from St. Klaed's Computer (poems) (1979)
New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)
Foreign bodies: Stories (1981)
Seasons in Flight (1984)
A Tupolev Too Far (1986)
The Magic of the Past (1987)
Best SF Stories of Brian W Aldiss (1988)
Science Fiction Blues (1988)
Man in His Time: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988)
At the Caligula Hotel: And other poems (poems) (1995)
The Secret of This Book (1995)
aka Common Clay
Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time (2001)
The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
Cultural Breaks (2005)
A Prehistory of Mind (poems) (2008)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories (with Harry Harrison)
Nebula Award Stories 2 (1966)

Analog (with Harry Harrison)
Astounding Analog Reader (1973)

Anthology series

Best SF (with Harry Harrison)
1. Best SF : 1967 (1968)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 1
2. Best SF: 1968 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 2
3. Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
4. Best SF: 1970 (1971)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 4
5. Best SF: 1971 (1972)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 5
6. Best SF: 1972 (1973)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 6
7. Best SF: 1973 (1974)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 7
8. Best SF: 1974 (1974)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
9. Best SF: 1975 (1976)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 9

Anthologies edited

Non fiction

Cities and Stones: A traveller's Jugoslavia (1966)
The shape of further things: speculations on change (1970)
Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction (1973)
Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers (1975)
Science Fiction Art (1975)
Science Fiction as Science Fiction (1979)
This World and Nearer Ones: essays exploring the familiar (1979)
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet: Articles and Autobiography (1986)
The Pale Shadow of Science (1986)
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986) (with David Wingrove)
The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1988)
Bury My Heart at WH Smiths: A Writing Life (1990)
Home Life with Cats (1992)
When The Feast is Finished: Reflections on Terminal Illness (1994) (with Margaret Aldiss)
Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia Selected Poems of Makhtumkuli (1995)
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman: Autobiography (1998)
Art After Apogee The Relationships Between an Idea, a Story, and Painting (2000)
Plutonian Monologue On His Wife's Death (2000)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Brian Aldiss

Short stories

	There is a Tide (1956)
	All the World's Tears (1957)
	The Flowers of the Forest (1957)
	Let's Be Frank (1957)
	O Ishrail! (1957)
	Out of Reach (1957)
	Visiting Amoeba (1957)
	Blighted Profile (1958)
	But Who Can Replace a Man? (1958)
	Equator (1958)
	Gene-Hive (1958)
	Incentive (1958)
	The New Father Christmas (1958)
	Poor Little Warrior! (1958)
	Secret of a Mighty City (1958)
	Intangibles Inc. (1959)
	Neanderthal Planet (1960)
	Old Hundredth (1960)
	A Touch of Neanderthal (1960)
	Hothouse (1961) aka The Long Afternoon of Earth		Hugo
	A Kind of Artistry (1962)
	Comic Inferno (1963)
	The Thing Under the Glacier (1963)
	Man on Bridge (1964)
	The Day of the Doomed King (1965)
	Man in His Time (1965)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Saliva Tree (1965)		Nebula
	The Source (1965)
	Amen and Out (1966)
	Burning Question (1966)
	The Circulation of the Blood... (1966)
	Heresies of the Huge God (1966)
	The O in Jose (1966)
	A Pleasure Shared (1966)
	A Taste for Dostoevsky (1966)
	Confluence (1967)
	Full Sun (1967)
	The Night That All Time Broke Out (1967)
	Randy's Syndrome (1967)
	...And the Stagnation of the Heart (1968)
	Send Her Victorius (1968)
	Total Environment (1968)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Village Swindler (1968)
	The Worm That Flies (1968)
	The Moment of Eclipse (1969)
	Since the Assassination (1969)
	So Far from Prague (1969)
	The Soft Predicament (1969)
	Working in the Spaceship Yards (1969)
	The Hunter at His Ease (1970)
	As for Our Fatal Continuity... (1972)
	The Ergot Show (1972)
	Castle Scene with Penitents (1973)
	The Expensive Delicate Ship (1973)
	Serpent Burning on an Altar (1973)
	Three Enigmas I (1973)
	Three Enigmas II: The Eternal Theme of Exile (1973)
	A Cultural Side-Effect (1974)
	The Girl in the Tau-Dream (1974)
	The Immobility Crew (1974)
	Live? Our Computers Will Do That for Us (1974)
	The Monster of Ingratitude IV (1974)
	The Secret of Holman Hunt and the Crude Death Rate (1974)
	Three Enigmas III: All in God's Mind (1974)
	Wired for Sound (1974)
	Patagonia's Delicious Filling Station (1975)
	Three Enigmas IV: Three Coins in Enigmatic Fountains (1975)
	Year by Year the Evil Gains (1975)
	An Appearance of Life (1976)
	The Bang-Bang (1976)
	The Bones of Bertrand Russell (1976)
	The Dark Soul of the Night (1976)
	Journey to the Heartland (1976)
	Last Orders (1976)
	A Space for Reflection (1976)
	Creatures of Apogee (1977)
	The Game with the Big Heavy Ball (1977)
	My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows (1977)
	A Chinese Perspective (1978)
	Enemies of the System (1978)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Small Stones of Tu Fu (1978)
	Bill Carter Takes Over (1979)
	Her Toes Were Beautiful on the Mountains (1980)
	Just Back From Java (1980)
	A Romance of the Equator (1980)
	The Blue Background (1983)
	Consolations of Age (1983)
	The Girl Who Sang (1983)
	Igur and the Mountain (1983)
	The Gods in Flight (1984)
	Incident in a Far Country (1984)
	Journey to the Goat Star (1984)
	The Other Side of the Lake (1984)
	The Plain, the Endless Plain (1984)
	You Never Asked My Name (1985)
	The Big Question (1986)
	The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica (1986)
	Lies! (1986)
	North Scarning (1986)
	The Ascent of Humbelstein (1987)
	Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life (1987)
	Confluence Revisited (1988)
	Forgotten Life (1988)
	How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart (1988)
	A Day in the Life of a Galactic Empire (1989)
	North of the Abyss (1989)
	Three Degrees Over (1989)
	A Tupolev Too Far (1989)
	Better Morphosis (1990)
	A Life of Matter and Death (1990)
	FOAM (1991)
	Summertime Was Nearly Over (1991)
	Common Clay (1992)
	Horse Meat (1992)
	Ratbird (1992)
	Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope (1993)
	Else the Isle with Calibans (1993)
	Friendship Bridge (1993)
	Short Stories (1993)
	A Dream of Antigone (1994)
	The God Who Slept with Women (1994)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	Headless (1994)
	The Madonna of Futurity (1994)
	The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind (1994)
	The Servant Problem (1994)
	Becoming the Full Butterfly (1995)
	Evans in His Moment of Glory (1995)
	The Eye-Opener (1995)
	How the Gates Opened and Closed (1995)
	If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy (1995)
	Making My Father Read Revered Writings (1995)
	Sitting With Sick Wasps (1995)
	A Swedish Birthday Present (1995)
	Three Moon Enigmas (1995)
	Travelling Towards Humbris (1995)
	An Unwritten Love Note (1995)
	Dark Society (1996)
	Death, Shit, Love, Transfiguration (1997)
	Aimez-Vouz Holman Hunt?
	All Those Enduring Old Charms
	Backwater
	Basis for Negotiation
	But Without Orifices
	Carefully Observed Women
	The Daffodil Returns the Smile
	Danger: Religion!
	The Day We Embarked for Cythera...
	Down the Up Escalation
	Faceless Card
	The Game of God
	The Girl and the Robot with Flowers
	How to Be a Soldier
	The International Smile
	Judas Danced
	Killing Off the Big Animals
	Legends of Smith's Burst
	The Lonely Habit
	Nobody Spoke Or Waved Goodbye
	'O Moon of My Delight!'
	One Role with Relish
	Orgy of the Living and the Dying
	Outside
	Paternal Care
	The Serpent of Kundalini
	Shards
	Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
	Swastika!
	That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art...
	There's a Cloud
	They Shall Inherit
	Waiting for the Universe to Begin
	What Are You Doing? Why Are You Doing It?
	Within the Black Circle
	The Year of the Quiet Computer

Awards

	Hugo Best Short story winner (1962) : Hothouse
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1966) : The Saliva Tree
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1967) : Man in His Time
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1967) : Man in His Time
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1969) : Total Environment
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1969) : Total Environment
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1979) : Enemies of the System
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1983) : Helliconia Spring
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1983) : Helliconia Spring
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1986) : Helliconia Winter
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1995) : The God Who Slept with Women
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1996) : The Secret of This Book

Books about Brian Aldiss

Brian W. Aldiss, a bibliography, 1954-1962 (1963) by Margaret Manson
Brian W. Aldiss, a bibliography 1954-1972 (1972) by Margaret Aldiss
Aldiss Unbound: Science Fiction of Brian Aldiss (1977) by Richard Mathews
Brian W. Aldiss (1983) by Michael R Collings
Apertures (1984) by Brian Griffin and David Wingrove
Brian W. Aldiss (1987) by Phil Stephensen-Payne
The Work of Brian W. Aldiss: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1991) by Margaret Aldiss

Brian Aldiss recommends

The End of Eternity (1955) Isaac Asimov "Asimov...at the height of his powers."	The Door into Summer (1957) Robert Heinlein "Recommended."	The Penultimate Truth (1964) Philip K Dick "As full of muscle, teeth and flashing surprises as an alligator pool."
Nine by Laumer (1967) Keith Laumer "A very enjoyable collection with accent on punch and surprise...mainline science fiction with plenty of colour and satiric snap."	Camp Concentration (1968) Thomas M Disch "Fiendishly clever."	Under Compulsion (1968) Thomas M Disch "A genuine pessimist of a new writer has come along, to delight us with an unadulterated shot of pure bracing gloom."
Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973) Robert Anton Wilson "Here is a Genius with a Gee!"	A Wreath of Stars (1976) Bob Shaw "Staggeringly enjoyable... vivid characters, a well-realized African state, and a great deal of intellectually sustained suspense."	The Killer Mice (1976) Kit Reed "Her flights of fancy are tipped with curare."
The Divine Invasion (1981) (Valis, book 2) Philip K Dick "No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations."	Empire of the Sun (1984) (Empire of the Sun, book 1) J G Ballard "Ballard's ferocious intelligence, his wit, his cantankerousness, and in particular his extraordinary rendering of the perverse pleasures of today's paranoia, make him one of the grand magicians of modern fiction."	Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) Bruce Sterling "A knowing bunch of guys, bristling with rock, pain and octane."
The Plenty Principle (1988) (Tabitha Jute) Colin Greenland "Colin Greenland is the Verdi of Space Opera."	Godshome (1998) Robert Sheckley "A famous and skilled exponent of science fiction."	Dead Lines (2004) Greg Bear "One of the grand contemporary masters of SF."

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