Brian Aldiss

11 Series

Brian W. Aldiss (1925-2017) was an acclaimed English science fiction author, recognized as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Prior to his writing career, he served in the Royal Signals during World War II and worked as a bookseller. Aldiss received numerous awards, including two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Brian Aldiss's "Bow Down to Nul," also known as "The Interpreter," explores themes of power and interpretation. "Hothouse," alternatively titled "The Long Afternoon of Earth," depicts a future where humanity struggles to survive in a lush, overgrown world. "Cryptozoic!," published also as "An Age," delves into time travel and its consequences. "White Mars," co-authored with Roger Penrose and also released as "The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia," envisions a utopian society on Mars. "Tales from the Planet Earth" is a collaborative effort with multiple authors, presenting diverse narratives set on Earth.

Horatio Stubbs

The Hand-Reared Boy

(1970)

A Soldier Erect

(1971)

A Rude Awakening

(1978)

The Squire Quartet

Life in the West

(1980)

Forgotten Life

(1988)

Remembrance Day

(1993)

Somewhere East of Life

(1994)

Helliconia

Helliconia Spring

(1982)

Helliconia Summer

(1983)

Helliconia Winter

(1985)

Standalone Novels

Starswarm

(1954)

The Brightfount Diaries

(1955)

Non-Stop / Starship

(1958)

Vanguard From Alpha

(1959)

Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter

(1960)

Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth

(1961)

The Male Response

(1961)

The Primal Urge

(1961)

Dark Light Years

(1964)

Greybeard

(1964)

Earthworks

(1965)

Cryptozoic! / An Age

(1967)

Report on Probability A

(1968)

Barefoot in the Head

(1969)

Neanderthal Planet

(1969)

Frankenstein Unbound

(1973)

The Eighty-Minute Hour

(1974)

Enemies of the System

(1978)

Moreau's Other Island

(1980)

An Island Called Moreau

(1980)

Tales from the Planet Earth

(1986)

The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical

(1987)

Ruins

(1988)

Sex and the Black Machine

(1988)

Dracula Unbound

(1990)

White Mars

(1999)(With: Roger Penrose)

The Cretan Teat

(2001)

Super State

(2002)

Affairs At Hampden Ferrers

(2004)

Jocasta

(2005)

Sanity and the Lady

(2005)

Harm

(2007)

Walcot

(2009)

Finches of Mars

(2012)

Comfort Zone

(2013)

The Malacia Tapestry

(2014)

Short Story Collections

Space, Time and Nathaniel

(1957)

No Time Like Tomorrow

(1959)

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time

(1959)

The Airs of Earth

(1963)

The Saliva Tree

(1966)

Who Can Replace a Man?

(1966)

Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories

(1969)

The Moment of Eclipse

(1970)

Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss

(1972)

Equator

(1973)

Brothers of the Head

(1977)

Last Orders

(1977)

Pile

(1979)

New Arrivals, Old Encounters

(1979)

Foreign Bodies

(1981)

Farewell to a Child

(1982)

Seasons in Flight

(1984)

A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories

(1986)

The Magic of the Past

(1987)

Science Fiction Blues

(1988)

Man in His Time

(1989)

At the Caligula Hotel

(1995)

The Secret of This Book / Common Clay

(1995)

The God Who Slept With Women

(1995)

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

(2001)

The Dark Sun Rises

(2002)

Cultural Breaks

(2005)

A Prehistory of Mind

(2008)

Mortal Morning

(2011)

The Invention of Happiness

(2013)

Songs from the Steppes

(2014)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s

(2015)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)

(2015)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)

(2015)

Best SF Anthologies

Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2

(1969)(With: Robert Sheckley,Harry Harrison)

Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3

(1970)(With: Harry Harrison)

Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4

(1971)(With: Harry Harrison)

Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5

(1972)(With: Harry Harrison)

Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9

(1976)(With: Harry Harrison)

Non-Fiction

The Shape of Further Things

(1970)

Billion Year Spree

(1973)

Science Fiction Art

(1975)

This World and Nearer Ones

(1979)

Pale Shadow of Science

(1986)

Trillion Year Spree

(1986)(With: David Wingrove)

And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography

(1986)

The Detached Retina

(1988)

Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's

(1990)

Home Life With Cats

(1992)

When The Feast Is Finished

(1994)

The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman

(1998)

Art After Apogee

(2000)

Plutonian Monologue

(2000)

The Starry Messenger

(2006)

An Exile on Planet Earth

(2012)

The Twinkling of an Eye

(2015)

And the Lurid Glare of the Comet

(2021)

Faber Stories

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

(1955)(By: Flannery O'Connor)

The Inner Room

(1968)(By: Robert Aickman)

Daughters of Passion

(1982)(By: Julia O'Faolain)

Giacomo Joyce

(1983)(By: Richard Ellmann)

Homeland

(1989)(By: Barbara Kingsolver)

Shanti

(1997)(By: Vikram Chandra)

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

(1998)(By: Thom Jones)

An Elegy for Easterly

(2009)(By: Petina Gappah)

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

(2011)(By: Alan Bennett)

The Cheater's Guide to Love

(2012)(By: Junot Díaz)

Mrs Fox

(2014)(By: Sarah Hall)

Mostly Hero

(2014)(By: Anna Burns)

Mr Salary

(2016)(By: Sally Rooney)

Come Rain or Come Shine

(2019)(By: Kazuo Ishiguro)

The Victim

(2019)(By: P.D. James)

Dante and the Lobster

(2019)(By: Samuel Beckett)

Paradise

(2019)(By: Edna O'Brien)

Cosmopolitan

(2019)(By: Akhil Sharma)

The Lydia Steptoe Stories

(2019)(By: Djuna Barnes)

Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom

(2019)(By: Sylvia Plath)

Terrific Mother

(2019)(By: Lorrie Moore)

The Country Funeral

(2019)(By: John McGahern)

The Forester's Daughter

(2019)(By: Claire Keegan)

Three Types of Solitude

(2019)

A River in Egypt

(2019)(By: David Means)

Fairy Tales

(2019)(By: Marianne Moore)

Ghostly Stories

(2019)(By: Celia Fremlin)

Intruders

(2019)(By: Adrian Tomine)

Short Stories/Novellas

A Chinese Perspective

(2000)

A New (Governmental) Father Christmas

(2002)

Isaac Asimov's Anthology

Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction

(1980)(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth)

Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far

(1981)(By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz)

Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own

(1983)(By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn)

Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!

(1985)(By: Shawna McCarthy)

Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!

(1989)(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen)

Isaac Asimov's Aliens

(1991)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Robots

(1991)(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson)

Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite

(1993)(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford)

Isaac Asimov's War

(1993)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams

(1994)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep

(1995)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Ghosts

(1995)(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson)

Isaac Asimov's Christmas

(1997)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Camelot

(1998)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason)

Isaac Asimov's Detectives

(1998)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Werewolves

(1999)(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Solar System

(1999)(By: Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Utopias

(2000)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Father Day

(2001)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Halloween

(2001)(By: Isaac Asimov)

Anthologies

Penguin Science Fiction

(1961)

Best Fantasy Stories

(1962)

More Penguin Science Fiction

(1963)

The Eighth Galaxy Reader

(1965)

Tales of Unease

(1966)

Nebula Award Stories #2

(1966)

Introducing Science Fiction

(1967)

Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus

(1968)

Backdrop of Stars

(1968)

The Inner Landscape

(1969)

Dangerous Visions 1

(1969)

The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3

(1970)

Nova 1

(1970)

On Our Way to the Future

(1970)

SF Authors' Choice 2

(1970)

Science Against Man

(1970)

The Astounding Analog Reader

(1972)

This Side of Infinity

(1972)

Alpha 3

(1972)

The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two

(1973)

The Year's Best Science Fiction

(1973)

Orbit 12

(1973)

Factions

(1974)

Space Odysseys

(1974)

Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology

(1974)

Decade: The 1940's

(1975)

Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction

(1975)

New Worlds Nine

(1975)

New Writings in SF 27

(1975)

Evil Earths

(1975)

Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories

(1975)

Hell's Cartographers

(1975)

New Worlds 6

(1975)

Antigrav

(1975)

Andromeda 1

(1976)

Decade: The 1950s

(1976)

Galactic Empires 2

(1976)

Beyond Tomorrow

(1976)

Decade: The 1960s

(1977)

Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978

(1977)

Perilous Planets

(1978)

The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century

(1980)

Winter's Tales 26

(1981)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969

(1981)

Perpetual Light

(1982)

The Book of Mini-Sagas

(1985)

Tales From the Forbidden Planet

(1987)

The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1

(1988)

Gaslight & Ghosts

(1988)

The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

(1988)

The Book of Mini-Sagas 2

(1988)

The Drabble Project

(1988)

Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold

(1988)

Dark Fantasies

(1989)

Now We Are Sick

(1991)

Dante's Disciples

(1991)

The Amis Story Anthology

(1992)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection

(1993)

Invaders!

(1993)

New Worlds 1

(1996)

New Worlds No. 221

(1996)

Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997

(1997)

Mini Sagas 1999

(1999)

Year's Best SF 5

(2000)

Nebula Awards 35 (2001)

(2001)

DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction

(2002)

The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction

(2002)

Mini-Sagas

(2002)

DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies

(2002)

Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology

(2006)

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

(2010)

The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011

(2010)

Catastrophia

(2010)

xo Orpheus

(2013)

Four For Fantasy

(2013)

Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013

(2013)

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