11 books by Brian W. Aldiss
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Overview: Brian Wilson Aldiss is one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. Adored for his innovative literary techniques, evocative plots and irresistible characters, he became a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999. Brian Aldiss recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday and is still writing to ardent applause.
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
The Malacia Tapestry
In the timeless city of Malacia, a place swathed in magic and on the brink of war, lives a young man named Perian de Chirolo – a free-spirit, a fearless lover – who embarks on a harrowing odyssey with dramatic consequences for himself and all Malacians. This is a gripping tale of wonder, lust and destiny.
Cryptozoic
Bush materialised in the prehistoric shore… and the drama began.
For Bush was a mind-traveller, moving through time like a phantom… and haunted by a phantom, The Dark Woman. Was she a ghost from his future, or the product of a mind strained beyond endurance? Bush had other problems: emerging from the Devonian past into a totalitarian future he was trained to kill, sent back in time to assassinate a man who threatened the future.
This brilliant examination of the relationship between men and time is simultaneously a serious novel on that fascinating subject and a tense psychosexual thriller.
Brothers of the Head
Sci-fi legend Brian Aldiss’ dark and compelling story of Siamese twin boys with a third dormant head.
Tom and Barry are Siamese twins with a third head growing out of Barry’s shoulder. They are plucked from their deprived home by showbiz entrepreneurs and form a rock band, The Bang Bang.
But the twins have a violent relationship and jealousies arise over their shared lover. Can a band split up when the singers are permanently joined together?
Supertoys Trilogy
For the first time ever all three Suptertoys stories are collected in one essential volume.
Featuring one of Brian Aldiss’ most renowned works, ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’, which was adapted into the 2001 film ‘A.I.’ directed by Steven Spielberg.
David is just a little boy, a little boy who loves his mother and his teddy bear. David wants to make his mother happy, and tell her he loves her, but can’t quite seem to find the words.
His verbal communication centre is giving him trouble again. He may have to go back to the factory.
With a brand new introduction from Brian Aldiss, ‘The Supertoys Trilogy’ is essential reading for all Science Fiction fans. Also includes ‘Supertoys When Winter Comes’ and ‘Supertoys in Other Seasons’.
Dracula Unbound
Joe Bodenland has figured out how to manipulate time—a discovery that leads him to Utah and an impossible sixty-five-million-year-old human gravesite. It is here that he learns of the existence of a monstrous race of intelligent predators as old as the dinosaur, and of the remarkable “train” the undead creatures use to travel back and forth from a Paleolithic past to a monstrous far future in which Homo sapiens are enslaved cattle. With the fate of all humanity at stake, Joe commandeers the ghostly transportation and rides it back to Victorian England, where he enlists the aid of a powerful ally, the author Bram Stoker, in the battle to secure Earth. But to prevent the coming apocalyptic nightmare, they must first confront and destroy the most cunning and deadly being the world has ever known: Lord Dracula, the immortal vampire.
Report on Probability A
In a certain house in a certain place lived the strangely fascinating Mrs. Mary. From the garden, three equally strange characters – G, S and C – watched Mrs. Mary day and night. In a parallel world, another observer watched the three watchers, while in yet a third dimension a lonely figure on a hill watched him. The lonely figure was observed by a group of men in a New York building, who were themselves subject to the scrutiny of a clairvoyant woman’s seeking mind. And in a disused warehouse two young men and a boy watched the watchers who watched the watchers who watched, in their turn, yet other watchers, in a sinister chain of paradox…
Report on Probability A is a provokingly bizarre novel of relativity by one of the great masters of modern Science Fiction.
Earthworks
Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian novel by prolific British science fiction author Brian Aldiss set in a world of environmental catastrophe & extreme socioeconomic inequality. Outside crowded cities controlled by a police state, a class of powerfully wealthy Farmers exploit a rural prison labor population, hunting down subversive Travellers who’ve broken free of social controls. The novel is considered influential as both Travellers & the Earthwork idea have become part of British public life.
Diseased, overpopulated, starving, robots & prison-gangs tending a barren, poisoned countryside–this is the world Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller & captain of the tramp freighter Trieste Star knows & accepts because there’s nothing better to hope for. To the beautiful girl named Justine it’s a degrading & inhuman condition which can be overcome by global war–a war she wants him to start. He’s always believed war was a futile answer to problems, but under Justine’s persuasive logic he begins hoping that a shot he can fire will lead to the ultimate death of millions & be the start of a better world for the survivors.
Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe
Welcome to the future European Super-State—one continent united into a not-quite-homogenous whole. Numerous historic happenings and technological advances have ushered us to this new age of solidarity and prosperity, though it’s true that some of the past’s annoying problems still linger: global warming, terrorism, war, rape, murder, Alzheimer’s disease, environmental catastrophe.
Despite all the advances of this brave new tomorrow, it seems people haven’t changed one bit. The rich, beautiful, and celebrated still revel in their outrageous excesses. The government still stumbles about its business of governing while presidential assassins blithely go about theirs. As before, we gaze toward the stars with wonderment, and even now the brave crew of the spaceship Roddenberry is approaching Jupiter’s moon, Europa, ready to make first contact with members of a very tasty alien race. Back on Earth, the Insanatics, our digital conscience, attempt to keep us honest as we love, lie, covet, cheat, and watch our best-laid plans go predictably haywire—and the android slaves we keep locked away overnight in cupboards exchange perplexed reflections on the myriad foibles of their human masters.
One of the most acclaimed and accomplished science fiction writers of the twentieth century, Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss offers a colorful tapestry of what’s to come in his thoughtful and savagely funny take on the shape of tomorrow. Aldiss has seen the future . . . and it is ridiculous.
Hothouse
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady – not to mention the tummybelly men – journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss’ most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with brilliant imagery.
Non-Stop aka Starship
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were – that was forgotten.
Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down…
Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.
Walcot
A story charting the events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the Fielding family, whose fortunes are altered irrevocably…
The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.
On the glorious sands of the North Norfolk coast, Steve, the youngest member of the Fielding family, plays alone. But are these halcyon days?
War is looming, and things will never be the same again. This book, described by Brian as his magnum opus, charts the fortunes of the Fielding family throughout the twentieth century.
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