Welcome
…to the official Brian W. Aldiss website. As well as being a distinguished SF writer, Aldiss is also an important mainstream novelist, a poet, an essayist, a dramatist, an SF historian and critic whose work has been published in dozens of countries around the world.
Open Road now has 42 Aldiss audiobooks in their catalogue including new releases of the following: THE PRIMAL URGE, RUINS, THE EIGHTY-MINUTE HOUR, SCIENCE FICTION BLUES, STARSWARM, SEASONS IN FLIGHT, and INTANGIBLES, INC.
Follow Brian on Open Road (US) for new audiobook releases here:
‘The titan of science fiction.’ Telegraph
‘Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential – and one of the best – SF writers Britain has ever produced.’ Iain M Banks
‘The best contemporary writer of science fiction.’ Guardian
‘One of our best novelists.’ William Boyd
2025 Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The exhibition at the Liverpool University website is now live. Click here to visit.
Broadcasts
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth.
In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun’s output has increased.
Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction…
Hothouse, in 5 parts, on the BBC
And in other news…
Graham Coxon, the guitarist from the band Blur is a Brian Aldiss fan. In this New Statesman article Graham mentions the following novels as recent inspiration to him: The Hand-Reared Boy, Hothouse, Super-State
News
New publication dates!
A new compilation of Brian’s own short stories is being published for the centenary. Read more and pre-order Hello Earth, Are You There? at Waterstones or Amazon.
Barefoot In The Head is coming to Gollancz’s SF Masterworks! Pub. date 20 November 2025. Order here.
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand is also coming to SF Masterworks! Pub. date 19 February 2026.
Read the new series of articles about Brian’s many literary friendships is a blog series right here.
Read the Bob Shaw article here;
William Boyd here; Iris Murdoch here.
