Last Orders
LAST ORDERS shows Brian Aldiss, master of the unexpected, at his most wittily inventive, whether recording the last conversation on Earth, a new Flood about to wash civilization away, the massacre of animals on an unknown planet, or the invention of machines that bring paintings to life.
These stories, either set on the Zodiacal Planets (the zeepees) or cast in the form of "enigmas", are marked by striking and prophetic ambiguities.
LAST ORDERS offers a chilling warning of what we might find if a spaceprobe landed in the human soul...
Contents:
- Author's Note
- Last Orders
- Creatures of Apogee
- Enigma 1: Year By Year the Evil Gains
- Enigma 2: Diagrams for Three Stories
- Live? Our Computers Will Do That For Us
- The Monster of Ingratitude IV
- Enigma 3: The Aperture Moment
- Backwater
- Enigma 4: The Eternal Theme of Exile
- The Expensive Delicate Ship
- Enigma 5: Three Coins in Clockwork Fountains
- An Appearance of Life
- Wired for Sound
- Journey to the Heartland
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (1925-2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.
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