Brian Aldiss
science fiction grandmaster & author of English prose
We’ll be publishing some exclusive new short stories on the blog. Right now Brian is just finishing up on a months’ worth of writing a short story each day so look out for plenty more! ————————— Derek Barnes paced back and forth, thinking joyfully how wonderful he was. Never had he felt such delight before. […]
From ereads.com With Life in the West, E-Reads launches Brian Aldiss’s Squire Quartet, back in print after thirty years and available in e-book for the first time. Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media […]
Barely the twinkling of an eye on planet Helliconia, planet Earth has enjoyed 30 years reading the trilogy of Helliconia’s, the Spring edition of which was now first published by New Wave grandmaster Brian Aldiss back in 1982. To celebrate, the Aldiss estate in conjunction with literary agents Curtis Brown and publishers Gollancz will be […]
The family is very pleased to finally hear the announcement of a deal with Harper Collins for rights to Dad’s entire back catalogue. Below is a press release in full (19th Jan 2012).
Extraordinary news this week from NASA that their Keplar probe has discovered a planet with 2 suns in the distant Cygnus constellation. Christened (for the time-being) Keplar 16 B the planet has both an orange sun and a red sun, and is thought to be a mostly gaseous planet the size of Saturn about 200 light years […]
What an enjoyable evening at The British Library watching Dad (Brian Aldiss), Michael Morcock, Norman Spinrad and John Clute talking about Science Fictions’ apparent heyday, and the so called New Wave Aldiss, Morcock and Spinrad belonged to back then. Roz Kaveney did a great job of chairing the evening, and opened by asking Aldiss about […]
Here’s an old Times article that’s worth reviving. The article argues that as a genre science fiction is overlooked for a number of reasons. It also features one of my favourite quotes: a definition of Science Fiction as “Hubris clobbered by Nemesis”. It was published in 2007… do you think much has changed?