The Invention of Happiness

The Invention of Happiness

Brian Aldiss

Publication
November 2013

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About the Book

Cover art by Alison Soskice.

A new year dawned and I suddenly determined to challenge myself with shortage of time. In brief, I would write a short short story every day in succession. This little book contains some of the results.

To be honest (generally a foolish thing for a writer to be) a short  written on a Monday requires a Tuesday as well. On Tuesday, you edit, you correct, you knock out ungainly sentences, you amplify... for you may suddenly discover a new meaning that had never occurred to you on the Monday. So you in effect rewrite. That's what Tuesdays are for... the writing of tiny masterpieces.

Most of these stories are fairly dark, glowing with gloom. I like it that way.

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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,…

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