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Brian Aldiss

(Brian Wilson Aldiss)

(1925 - 2017)

Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle.

Brian Wilson Aldiss was one of the most important voices in science fiction. 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.

Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy

Series

Horatio Stubbs
   1. The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)
   2. A Soldier Erect (1971)
   3. A Rude Awakening (1978)

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)

Complete Short Stories
   1. The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s (2013)
   2. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (2015)
   2.1. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 1 (2015)
   2.3. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 3 (2015)
   2.4. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 4 (2015)

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 (1975)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
   9. Best SF: 1975 (1976)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 9

Novels

   Starswarm (1954)
   The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
   Non-Stop (1958)
     aka Starship
   No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)
   Vanguard from Alpha (1959)
   Interpreter (1960)
     aka Bow Down to Nul
   Hothouse (1961)
     aka The Long Afternoon of Earth
   The Male Response (1961)
   The Primal Urge (1961)
   The Dark Light Years (1964)
   Greybeard (1964)
   Earthworks (1965)
   Cryptozoic! (1967)
     aka An Age
   Report on Probability A (1968)
   Barefoot in the Head (1969)
   Neanderthal Planet (1969)
   Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
   The Eighty-minute Hour (1974)
   The Malacia Tapestry (1976)
   Enemies of the System (1978)
   Moreau's Other Island (1980)
   An Island Called Moreau (1981)
   Ruins (1986)
   Tales from the Planet Earth (1986) (with others)
   Cracken at Critical (1987)
     aka The Year before Yesterday
   Sex and the Black Machine (1988)
   Dracula Unbound (1991)
   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 (2004)
   Sanity and the Lady (2005)
   HARM (2007)
   Walcot (2009)
   Finches of Mars (2012)
   Comfort Zone (2013)

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)
   The Saliva Tree (1966)
   Who Can Replace a Man? (1966)
   The Inner Landscape (1969) (with J G Ballard and Mervyn Peake)
   Intangibles Inc. (1969)
   The Moment of Eclipse (1970)
   Comic Inferno (1972)
     aka The Book of Brian Aldiss
   Equator (1973)
   Brothers of the Head (1977)
   Last Orders (1977)
   New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)
   Pile (poems) (1979)
   Foreign bodies (1981)
   Farewell to a Child (poems) (1983)
   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 (1989)
   At the Caligula Hotel (poems) (1995)
   The Secret of This Book (1995)
     aka Common Clay
   Supertoys Last All Summer Long (2001)
   The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
   Cultural Breaks (2005)
   A Prehistory of Mind (poems) (2008)
   Mortal Morning (poems) (2011)
   Lemistry (2011) (with others)
   50 x 50: The mini-sagas (2012)
   The Invention of Happiness (2013)
   Four For Fantasy (2013) (with others)
   Supertoys Trilogy (2014)
   Songs from the Steppes (poems) (2014)

Anthologies edited

   Penguin Science Fiction (1961)
   Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
   More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
   Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964)
   Introducing Science Fiction (1967)
   Farewell, Fantastic Venus! (1968) (with Harry Harrison)
     aka All About Venus
   The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
   Space Opera (1974)
   Space Odysseys (1974)
   Evil Earths (1975)
   Decade the 1940's (1975) (with Harry Harrison)
   Galactic Empires 1 (1976)
   Decade the 1950's (1976) (with Harry Harrison)
   The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction (1977) (with Sam J Lundwall)
   Decade the 1960's (1977) (with Harry Harrison)
   Galactic Empires 2 (1977)
   Perilous Planets (1978)
   Book of Mini-Sagas (1985)
   Book of Mini-Sagas II (1988)
   Mini Sagas (1997)
   Mini Sagas 1999 (1999)
   A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)

Novellas and Short Stories

A Chinese Perspective (1978)
Three Types of Solitude (2019)

Non fiction

   Cities and Stones (1966)
   The shape of further things (1970)
   Billion Year Spree (1973)
   Hell's Cartographers (1975)
   Science Fiction Art (1975)
   Science Fiction as Science Fiction (1978)
   This World and Nearer Ones (1979)
   And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986)
   The Pale Shadow of Science (1986)
   Trillion Year Spree (1986) (with David Wingrove)
   The Detached Retina (1988)
   Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)
   Home Life with Cats (1992)
   When The Feast is Finished (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 (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 (2006)
   An Exile on Planet Earth (2012)
   Collected Essays (2013)
   In the Twinkling of an Eye (2015)

Omnibus editions

A Brian Aldiss Omnibus (1969)

Series contributed to

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

Analog
Astounding Analog Reader (1972) (with Harry Harrison)

Twelve Tomorrows
Twelve Tomorrows 2013 (2013) (with others)

Anthologies containing stories by Brian Aldiss

Best SF 2 (1956)
Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 3 No. 16 (1960)
Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
Spectrum 2 (1962)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 12th Series (1963)
Spectrum 3 (1963)
New Writings in SF 1 (1964)
Tales of Science Fiction (1964)
Best Horror Stories 2 (1965)
The Unfriendly Future (1965)
Weird Shadows from Beyond (1965)
An ABC of Science Fiction (1966)
Best SF 6 (1966)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 185 (1966)
Nebula Award Stories 2 (1966)
Nebula Award Stories 1 (1966)
New Writings in SF 10 (1966)
Tales of Unease (1966)
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967)
Orbit 2 (1967)
World's Best Science Fiction 1967 (1967)
     aka World's Best SF 3rd Series
The Future Makers (1968)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Science Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968)
World's Best Science Fiction 1968 (1968)
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (1969)
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
Four for the Future (1969)
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (1969)
Best SF 7 (1970)
Mind in Chains (1970)
Nova 1 (1970)
On Our Way to the Future (1970)
London Tales of Terror (1972)
This Side of Infinity (1972)
New Writings in SF 22 (1973)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Best SF: 1972 (1973)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 6
New Writings in SF 23 (1973)
Nova 3 (1973)
     aka The Outdated Man
New Writings in SF 24 (1974)
Space 2 (1974)
Modern Science Fiction (1974)
New Worlds 7 (1974)
Final Stage (1974)
New Worlds 9 (1975)
New Writings in SF 25 (1975)
Tales of Terror From Outer Space (1975)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
New Writings in SF 27 (1975)
Creatures from Beyond (1975)
Antigrav (1975)
New Writings in SF 28 (1975)
The Ides of Tomorrow (1976)
New Writings in SF 29 (1976)
Universe 6 (1976)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
To Follow a Star (1977)
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977)
New Writings in SF 30 (1977)
Universe 7 (1977)
Anticipations (1978)
Beyond Reality (1979)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
Top Science Fiction (1984)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
Gaslight and Ghosts (1988)
The Great SF Stories 19 (1989)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
Invaders! (1993)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1993)
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994)
Universe 3 (1994)
Weird Tales from Shakespeare (1994)
Blue Motel (1994)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Tales in Space (1995)
Dante's Disciples (1996)
The Wizards of Odd (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
The Best of Interzone (1996)
New Worlds (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
Immortals (1998)
Not the Only Planet (1998)
Moon Shots (1999)
Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)

Short stories

	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! (with Anonymous, J G Ballard and Mervyn Peake)
	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
	Boy in Darkness [short story] (1956) (with Anonymous, J G Ballard and Mervyn Peake)
	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 [short story] (1958)
	Gene-Hive (1958)
	Incentive (1958)
	The New Father Christmas (1958)
	Poor Little Warrior! (1958)
	Secret of a Mighty City (1958)
	Intangibles Inc. [short story] (1959)
	Neanderthal Planet [short story] (1960)
	Old Hundredth (1960)
	A Touch of Neanderthal (1960)
	The Voices of Time [short story] (1960) (with Anonymous, J G Ballard and Mervyn Peake)
	Hothouse [short story] (1961) aka The Long Afternoon of Earth		Hugo
	A Kind of Artistry (1962)
	Comic Inferno [short story] (1963)
	The Thing Under the Glacier (1963)
	Man on Bridge (1964)
	The Day of the Doomed King (1965)
	Man in His Time [short story] (1965)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee)
	The Saliva Tree [short story] (1965)		Nebula Awards
	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)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee)
	The Village Swindler (1968)
	The Worm That Flies (1968)
	The Moment of Eclipse [short story] (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 [short story] (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)
	Enemies of the System [short story] (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 [short story] (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 [short story] (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)

Awards

	Hugo Best Short Story winner (1962) : Hothouse [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1966) : The Saliva Tree [short story]
	Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1967) : Man in His Time [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1967) : Man in His Time [short story]
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1969) : Total Environment
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1969) : Total Environment
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1979) : Enemies of the System [short story]
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1983) : Helliconia Spring
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1983) : Helliconia Spring
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1986) : Helliconia Winter
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1995) : The God Who Slept with Women
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2008) : HARM

Brian Aldiss recommends

The Master of Time (2017)
(Roads to Moscow, book 3)
David Wingrove
"Tremendous."

Godshome (1998)
Robert Sheckley
"A famous and skilled exponent of science fiction."

How to Write Science Fiction (1993)
Bob Shaw
"Full of insights...you are going to love this book."

Dead Lines (1992)
Greg Bear
"One of the grand contemporary masters of SF."

The Plenty Principle (1988)
(Tabitha Jute)
Colin Greenland
"Colin Greenland is the Verdi of Space Opera."

Mirrorshades (1986)
Bruce Sterling
"A knowing bunch of guys, bristling with rock, pain and octane."

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