Eight Books by Brian W. Aldiss
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Overview: Brian Aldiss (Brian Wilson Aldiss) (1925 – 2017)
Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle.
Brian W. Aldiss was one of the most important voices in science fiction. 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.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Eighty-Minute Hour (1974)
An ambitious, incredible – Space Opera!A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song – a genuine space opera.Quite possibly Aldiss’s Brian Aldiss’ highly inventive space opera is a mind-expanding range of songs and science that takes us, twisting and turning, through a cornucopia of intergalactic merriment and melodrama. Eccentric characters burst into full-throated song with each meandering plot. Strangest novel, and that is saying something.
Greybeard (1964)
After the "Accident," all males on earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now earth’s population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their 50’s. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man-eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coast with the hope of finding something better. With a New Introduction from the Author! "When is science fiction not science fiction? The answer must be: When it becomes too frighteningly believable.
Long Afternoon of Earth (1961)
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.
The Cretan Teat (2001)
The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.
This false icon gets adopted by the people – and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.
This is a story where the narrator – the author – is regularly caught with his trousers down.
It is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.
The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)
One of the landmark novels of our time, The Hand-Reared Boy was the first British novel to explore, frankly and with unabashed honesty, the sexual awakening of a young boy. Horatio Stubbs grows from childhood to adolescence and his preoccupations (and those of all young men) are described with wit and perception as he reaches puberty. The Hand-Reared Boy was rejected by thirteen publishers before being published in 1970. Readers were more accustomed to Brian Aldiss as a writer of award-winning science fiction. It has now been recognised for what it is -an original, delightfully funny description of the young Horatio Stubbs’s burgeoning sexuality, the emotions of adolescence have never been treated so explicitly.
The Male Response (1963, this is 2015 edition)
Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive.
Events move fast in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the new African republic of Goya. When affable young PR man Soames Noyes arrives fresh off the boat from England to deliver the city’s first computer, he finds himself swept up in a current of women, witch-doctors and promiscuity. Soon the indecisive Soames is saying goodbye to inhibition and hello to a new sexual politics.
The Primal Urge: An Uprorious Novel of Amazing Sexcess (1961)
How would you like to have a disc set in the middle of your forehead which glowed pink whenever you felt sexually aroused? This is the basis of Brian Aldiss’ amazingly funny and original novel, first published in 1961 and set in a near-future Britain where the discs are to be made compulsory – but not before a lot of hilarious and even frightening events occur, suggesting that perhaps it’s not such a good idea to wear one’s, er, ‘heart’ on one’s forehead.
Vanguard From Alpha (1959)
The spy team from Earth knew they were looking for trouble when they secretly landed in Luna Area 101 – dangerous Rosk territory. But the fearless trio got more than they bargained for at the hands of these hostile guests of Earth.
Tyne and Murray escaped with their lives. The third man was dead, and Tyne suspected that Murray had murdered him in cold blood.
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