Brian Aldiss

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.

Aldiss is the author of science fiction classics including Hothouse, Non-Stop, Greybeard and Helliconia trilogy (Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer and Helliconia Winter).


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Series by Brian Aldiss

Books by Brian Aldiss
Space, Time and Nathaniel 6.00   1
Non-Stop 8.50   2
Equator 6.00   1
Vanguard from Alpha 6.00   1
The Canopy of Time N/A
No Time Like Tomorrow N/A
Bow Down to Nul N/A
The Primal Urge N/A
Hothouse 5.42   33
The Dark Light Years 6.40   28
The Airs of Earth N/A
Greybeard 7.26   4
Earthworks N/A
Best SF Stories of Brian Aldiss N/A
The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths N/A
An Age 6.00   1
Report on Probability A 6.00   2
Barefoot in the Head 8.00   1
Neanderthal Planet N/A
Intangibles Inc. and Other Stories 7.00   1
The Moment of Eclipse N/A
The Book of Brian Aldiss N/A
Frankenstein Unbound 7.00   2
The Eighty-Minute Hour 4.00   1
The Malacia Tapestry 6.34   3
Brothers of the Head 8.00   1
Last Orders N/A
Enemies of the System N/A
New Arrivals, Old Encounters N/A
Moreau's Other Island N/A
Foreign Bodies N/A
Helliconia Spring (The Helliconia Trilogy #1) 7.86   57
Helliconia Summer (The Helliconia Trilogy #2) 8.14   44
Seasons in Flight N/A
Helliconia Winter (The Helliconia Trilogy #3) 7.76   40
The Magic of the Past N/A
Cracken at Critical 4.60   22
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction 7.00   2
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories N/A
Dracula Unbound N/A
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories N/A
The Secret of This Book N/A
White Mars N/A
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time N/A
Super-State N/A
Sanity and the Lady N/A
Cultural Breaks N/A
Jocasta N/A
HARM N/A
Finches of Mars N/A
The Invention of Happiness N/A
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One: The 1950s (The Complete Short Stories #1) N/A
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two: The 1960s - Part One (The Complete Short Stories #2) N/A
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Three: The 1960s - Part Two (The Complete Short Stories #3) N/A
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Four: The 1960s - Part Three (The Complete Short Stories #4) N/A

Speculative Fiction Novels (53)

(The Complete Short Stories #4 / 4)
2015 | science fiction, short stories
(The Complete Short Stories #3 / 4)
2015 | science fiction, short stories
(The Complete Short Stories #2 / 4)
2015 | science fiction, short stories
(The Complete Short Stories #1 / 4)
2014 | science fiction, short stories

2013 | science fiction

2007 | science fiction

2006 | fantasy

2005 | science fiction

2005 | science fiction, short stories

2002 | science fiction

2001 | science fiction, short stories

1999 | science fiction

1995 | science fiction, short stories

1993 | science fiction, short stories

1991 | science fiction

1989 | fantasy, short stories

1987 | science fiction

1987 | science fiction, short stories
(The Helliconia Trilogy #3 / 3)
1985 | science fiction

1984 | science fiction, short stories
(The Helliconia Trilogy #2 / 3)
1983 | science fiction
(The Helliconia Trilogy #1 / 3)
1982 | science fiction

1981 | science fiction, short stories

1980 | science fiction

1979 | science fiction, short stories

1978 | science fiction

1977 | science fiction

1977 | science fiction, short stories

1976 | fantasy

1974 | science fiction

1973 | science fiction

1972 | science fiction, short stories

1971 | science fiction, short stories

1969 | science fiction, short stories

1969 | science fiction

1969 | science fiction, short stories

1968 | science fiction

1967 | science fiction

1966 | science fiction, short stories

1965 | science fiction

1965 | science fiction

1964 | science fiction

1964 | science fiction

1964 | science fiction

1962 | science fiction

1961 | science fiction

1960 | science fiction

1959 | science fiction

1959 | science fiction, short stories

1959 | science fiction, short stories

1958 | science fiction

1958 | science fiction

1957 | science fiction, short stories

Others non-spefi books (2)


2013 | short stories

1988 | non-fiction