A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories
A companion volume to the author's "Man In His Time: Brian Aldiss's Best SF Stories", this volume contains the author's 24 best fantasy stories. The author discusses the genre in his introduction to the book. Aldiss is a Hugo and Nebula award-winner.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Old Hundredth
- Day of the Doomed King
- The Source
- The Village Swindler
- The Worm That Flies
- The Moment of Eclipse
- So Far from Prague
- The Day We Embarked for Cythera
- Castle Scene with Penitents
- The Game with the Big Heavy Ball
- Creatures of Apogee
- The Small Stones of Tu Fu
- Just Back from Java
- A Romance of the Equator
- Journey to the Goat Star
- The Girl Who Sang
- Consolations of Age
- The Blue Background
- The Plain, the Endless Plain
- You Never Asked My Name
- Lies!
- North Scarning (aka The Older Evil)
- The Big Question
- The Ascent of Humbelstein
- How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart
- Bill Carter Takes Over
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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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