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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.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

HARM

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)
No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)
Vanguard from Alpha (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)
Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (1978)
A Rude Awakening (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)
Brothers of the head: And, Where the lines converge (1977)
Last Orders: And other stories (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: The show that Brian Aldiss took on the road : a selection of his best stories, poetry, and speculations : an evening of wonders (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)
Farewell, fantastic Venus! a history of the planet Venus in fact and fiction (1968)
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)