Brian W. Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss

(b.1925)

Born in Norfolk, England. Served in the British Army during WWII. For some years was a film critic and poet.Voted "World's Best Contemporary Writer of SF" in 1970. Received a runner up plaque at the 1959 WorldCon for New Writer of '58 (no award given). Literary editor for the Oxford Mail for 8 years. Resident of Oxford (c. 1991).

One of his novels and one of his short stories have been adapted for the screen, including the short story "Supertoys Last All Sumer Long" developed by Stanley Kubrick and filmed by Steven Spielberg.

Awards: Hugo, Nebula, Kurd Lasswitz, Jules Verne, BSFA, SFRA Pilgrim (as critic), James Blish (critic), Ditmar (critic), IAFA distinguished scholarship, Nebula Grand Master (1999)

Bibliography:

An Age: aka Cryptozoic!
... And the Lurid Glare of the Comet: 1986, Seattle, WA
Airs of Earth
All About Venus: 1968 w. H. Harrison aka Farewell, Fantastic Venus!
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume One: 1972
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume Two: 1973
Barefoot in the Head: novel, 1970
Best Fantasy Stories: 1962
Best SF 1967: 1968 The Year's Best SF #1 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1968: 1969 The Year's Best SF #2 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1969: 1970 The Year's Best SF #3 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1970: 1971 The Year's Best SF #4 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1971: 1972 The Year's Best SF #5 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1972: 1973 The Year's Best SF #6 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1973: 1974 The Year's Best SF #7 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1974: 1975 The Year's Best SF #8 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH
Best SF 1975: 1976 The Year's Best SF #9 sh.sts. Ed. w. HH; sh.sts. 1963
The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss: Short story collection
Bodily Functions: sh.sts. 1991
A Brian Aldiss Omnibus: 1969; Includes Bow Down to Nul and The Primal Urge
A Brian Aldiss Omnibus 2: 1971 incl. Space, Time and Nathaniel, Non-Stop and The Male Response
Bury my Heart at W.H.Smiths: memoir
The Best Short Stories of B.W.A.: 1971 different than above
Best SF Stories of Brian Aldiss, 2nd Rev: sh.sts. 1988 aka Man in His Time
Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction: 1973, SF History,
The Book of Brian Aldiss: a.k.a. Cosmic Inferno
Bow Down to Nul: a.k.a. The Interpreter
The Brightfound Diaries: novel
Brothers of the Head: A European Fantasia: novel 1977
The Canopy of Time: sh.sts.
Comic Inferno
Common Clay: 1995, HarperCollins UK as The Secret of this Book; 1996, ISBN:0-312-13948-9 St. Martins' hardcover, cover by Gary Embury; Collection of 23 stories, with linking material and illustrations by Aldiss and Rosamond Chorley.
Craken at Critical: a.k.a. The Year Before Yesterday, 1987
The Cretan Teat: 2007
Cryptozoic!: novel 1967 a.k.a. An Age
Decade: The 1940's: Ed. w. harry Harrison, sh. sts. 1975
Decade: The 1950's: Ed. w. Harry Harrison, sh. sts. 1976
Decade: The 1960's: Ed. w. Harry Harrison, sh. sts. 1977
The Detached Retina: Non-fiction collection of 24 essays on SF and related topics. Four of the essays are previously unpublished, the rest have been updated or revised.; July 1995, Syracuse University Press Trade Paperback ISBN:0-8156-0370-3 Amazon.com
Dracula Unbound: novel 1991
The Dark Light Years: novel 1964
Earthworks: novel 1965
The Eighty Minute Hour: A Space Opera: novel 1974
Enemies of the Sysem: A Tale of Homo Uniformus: 1978
Equator; and, Segregation: sh.sts. 1977
Evil Earths: Ed. sh.sts. 1975
Foreign Bodies: sh.sts 1981
Forgotten Life
Frankestein Unbound: (c) 1973 by Brian W. Aldiss; Filmed by Roger Corman in 1990. Amazon.com: VHS; 1973 Random House Hardback ISBN:0-394-49079-7, Library of Congress Card Catalog Number:73-20581
Galactic Empires: Ed. sh.sts. 1976 Vols I, II
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand: 1960 (abridgement of The Canopy of Time?)
Greybeard: 1964
The Hand-Reared Boy
Helliconia Spring: First in the Helliconia Trilogy; 1982
Helliconia Summer: Second in the Helliconia Trilogy; 1983
Helliconia Winter: Third in the Helliconia Trilogy; 1985
Hell's Cartographers: Ed. w. Harry Harrison, 1975
Hothouse: aka The Long Afternoon of Earth
Intangibles Inc.: sh.sts. 1969
Introducing Science Fiction: Ed. sh.sts. 1964
An Island Called Moreau: novel 1980
Last Orders: 1977; August 1990, Carroll & Graf Mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-881-84617-1 Amazon
Life in the West
The Long Afternoon of Earth: 1962 a.k.a. Hothouse, Hugo
The Magic of the Past: shorts? Kerosina, 1987
The Malacia Tapestry: 1976
The Male Response: 1961
The Moment of Eclipse: sh.sts 1970, BSFA
More Penguin SF: Ed. sh.sts. 1963
Neanderthal Planet: sh.sts. 1970; based on Intangibles, Inc.(?)
Nebula Award Stories Two: Ed. sh.sts w. HH 1967
New Arrivals, Old Encounters: sh.sts. 1979
Non-Stop: aka Starship
No Time Like Tomorrow: Short story anthology. Twelve stories, six of them originally published in Space, Time and Nathaniel; Copyright 1957, 1959 by Brian Wilson Aldiss; Copyright 1958 by Ballantine Magazines, Inc.; July 1959 Signet
The Pale Shadow of Science: 1985, Seattle,WA
Penguin SF: Ed. sh.sts. 1961
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus: 1973 three above books
Perilous Planets: Ed. sh.sts. 1978
Pile
The Primal Urge: 1961
Rememberance Day: Third in the Squire quartet; 1993, HarperCollins (UK)
Report on Probability A: 1969(8)?
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories: sh.sts 1989
A Rude Awakening
The Saliva Tree: 1988 Tor Double #3
The Saliva Tree and A Soldier Erect
The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths: sh.sts. 1966
Science Fiction Blues: 1988 script of road show
Seasons in Flight: sh.sts. 1984
SF Art: Ed. London & NY 1975
The Shape of Further Things: Editor sh.sts
A Soldier Erect
Somewhere East of Life: Fourth in the Squire quartet; 1994, Carroll & Graf
Space Odysseys: Ed. sh.sts. 1974
Space Opera: Ed. sh.sts. 1974
Space, Time and Nathaniel: Faber & Faber, Ltd. (England)
Starship: a.k.a. Nonstop, Prix J. Verne 1977
Starswarm: a.k.a. The Airs of Earth; based on?
Trillion Year Spree: 198, SF History, Hugo '87 w. David Winthrope
A Tupolev Too Far: sh.sts. 1993
The Twinkling of an Eye: Or, My Life As an Englishman: Autobiography; April 1999, St. Martin's Press Hardcover ISBN:0-312-19346-7 Amazon.com
Vanguard from Alpha: 1961 aka Equator
When the Feast is Done: Non-fiction. With Margaret Aldiss. Memoir of the final weeks of Margaret Aldiss' life.
White Mars
Who Can Replace A Man?: aka The Best SF Stories of B.W.A.
This World and nearer Ones: 1979,
Yet More Penguin Science Fiction: Ed. sh.sts. 1964

Short Work

"Better Morphosis": (c) 1990 by Brian W. Aldiss; Read aloud at the IAFA Conference of the Fantastic in March 1990; July 1990 in the Nasacon 2 Programme Book; 1991 in Bodily Functions
"Blighted Profile": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Carrion Country": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Excommunication": short 1975; a postcard?
"The Failed Men": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Full Sun"
"Gesture of Farewell": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"The God Who Slept with Women": 1994 Asimov's
"Journey to the Goat Star": 1991 Pulphouse
"Judas Danced": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"A Kind of Artistry"
"Kindred Blood in Kensington Gore": short 1992
"Let's Be Frank": 1963(?)
"The New Father Christmas": Copyright 1957, 1958 by Mercury Press, Inc.; 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Not for an Age": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Old Hundredth"
"Our Kind of Knowledge": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Outside": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow

"Pipeline": September 2005, Asimov's
"Poor Little Warrior": Copyright 1957, 1958 by Mercury Press, Inc.; April 1958 F&SF; 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Psyclops": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"The Saliva Tree": novella 1965 Nebula
"Send Her Victorious: sh.st. April 1968, Amazing
"Serpent Burning on an Altar": sh.st. 1973 Orbit 12
"The Serpent of Kundalini": 1968 New Worlds
"Sex and the Black Machine": short 1990
"The Skeleton": (c) 1981 Brian W. Aldiss; 1981(?) in Foreign Bodies
"Skeleton Crew": 1963, Dec SciF
"Supertoys Last All Summer Long": Basis for the Kubrick/Spielberg film A.I; (c) 1969 by Brian W. Aldiss; December 1969, Harper's Bazaar; 1970 in The Moment of Eclipse
"T": 1959 in No Time Like Tomorrow
"Unreal Estates": Preface to Spectrum 4, 1964, transcript of a conversation with C.S.Lewis and Kingsley Amis
"Who Can Replace A Man?": 1959
"The Wizard and the Plumber": 1974, afterword 7th Annual
"The Worm That Flies": 1968, The Farthest Reaches

Related Works:

Aldiss Unbound: The Science Fiction of Brian W. Aldiss: by Richard Mathews; November 1977, Brogo Press ISBN:0-893-70213-7 Amazon
Brian W. Aldiss: by Tom Henighan; May 1999, Twayne Pub. ISBN:0-805-71601-7 Amazon

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