The Secret of This Book
World Fantasy Award nominee 1996.
Contents:
- Common Clay
- The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind
- How the Gates Opened and Closed
- Headless
- Travelling Towards Humbris
- If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy
- Else the Isle with Calibans
- A Swedish Birthday Present
- His Seventieth Heaven
- Rose in the Evening
- On the Inland Sea
- A Dream of Antigone
- The God Who Slept With Women
- Evans in His Moment of Glory
- Horse Meat
- An Unwritten Love Note
- Making My Father Read Revered Writings
- Sitting With Sick Wasps
- Becoming the Full Butterfly
- Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life
- Another Way Than Death
- That Particular Green of Obsequies
- The Ancestral Home of Thought
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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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