Brian W. Aldiss fu un autore inglese altamente stimato, noto per i suoi romanzi e racconti di fantascienza. Nato l'18 agosto 1925, Aldiss coltivò fin da bambino una passione per la lettura, in particolare per le opere di H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein e Philip K. Dick. Il suo servizio militare nel Royal Signals durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, dove prestò servizio attivo, gli fornì una vasta gamma di esperienze che in seguito avrebbero influenzato la sua scrittura. Dopo la guerra, lavorò come libraio, un'attività che non solo gli permise di continuare la sua passione per la lettura ma gli offrì anche l'opportunità di scrivere storie brevi per una rivista commerciale. Questa scrittura attirò l'attenzione di un editore presso Faber e Faber, dando inizio alla sua carriera di scrittore professionista.
Nel corso della sua carriera, Aldiss ricevette numerosi premi e riconoscimenti per il suo lavoro. Nel 1982, fu nominato Gran Maestro dai Science Fiction Writers of America e nel 1999 fu introdotto nella Science Fiction Hall of Fame. La sua scrittura gli valse due Premi Hugo, un Premio Nebula e un Premio John W. Campbell Memorial. Questi prestigiosi riconoscimenti sono una testimonianza delle innovative tecniche letterarie di Aldiss, trame evocative e personaggi irresistibili.
Oltre alla sua scrittura di fantascienza, Aldiss pubblicò anche opere sotto vari pseudonimi, tra cui Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant e "Doc" Peristyle. Si sposò due volte, prima con Olive Fortesque dal 1948 al 1965 e poi con Margaret Manson dal 1965 al 1997. Aldiss morì il 19 agosto 2017, dopo aver appena celebrato il suo 92° compleanno con la sua famiglia e i suoi amici più stretti. La sua eredità come scrittore di fantascienza sopravvive, ispirando nuove generazioni di scrittori e lettori.
Horatio Stubbs Books
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The Hand-Reared Boy
1970
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A Soldier Erect
1971
3
A Rude Awakening
1978
The Squire Quartet Books
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Life in the West
1980
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Forgotten Life
1988
3
Remembrance Day
1993
4
Somewhere East of Life
1994
Helliconia Books (with Maxim Jakubowski)
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Helliconia Spring
1982
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Helliconia Summer
1983
3
Helliconia Winter
1985
Helliconia Books
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Helliconia Spring
1982
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Helliconia Summer
1983
3
Helliconia Winter
1985
Romanzi singoli
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Starswarm
1954
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The Brightfount Diaries
1955
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Non-Stop / Starship
1958
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Vanguard From Alpha
1959
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Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter
1960
6
Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth
1961
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The Male Response
1961
8
The Primal Urge
1961
9
Dark Light Years
1964
10
Greybeard
1964
11
Earthworks
1965
12
Cryptozoic! / An Age
1967
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Report on Probability A
1968
14
Barefoot in the Head
1969
15
Neanderthal Planet
1969
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Frankenstein Unbound
1973
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The Eighty-Minute Hour
1974
18
Enemies of the System
1978
19
Moreau's Other Island
1980
20
An Island Called Moreau
1980
21
Tales from the Planet Earth
1986
22
The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical
1987
23
Ruins
1988
24
Sex and the Black Machine
1988
25
Dracula Unbound
1990
26
White Mars (With: Roger Penrose)
1999
27
White Mars
1999
28
The Cretan Teat
2001
29
Super State
2002
30
Affairs At Hampden Ferrers
2004
31
Jocasta
2005
32
Sanity and the Lady
2005
33
Harm
2007
34
Walcot
2009
35
Finches of Mars
2012
36
Comfort Zone
2013
37
The Malacia Tapestry
2014
38
Hothouse
2024
Raccolte di racconti
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Space, Time and Nathaniel
1957
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No Time Like Tomorrow
1959
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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time
1959
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The Airs of Earth
1963
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The Saliva Tree
1966
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Who Can Replace a Man?
1966
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Intangibles, Inc.: And Other Stories
1969
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Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories
1969
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The Moment of Eclipse
1970
10
Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss
1972
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Equator
1973
12
Brothers of the Head
1977
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Last Orders
1977
14
Pile
1979
15
New Arrivals, Old Encounters
1979
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Foreign Bodies
1981
17
Farewell to a Child
1982
18
Seasons in Flight
1984
19
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories
1986
20
The Magic of the Past
1987
21
Science Fiction Blues
1988
22
Man in His Time
1989
23
At the Caligula Hotel
1995
24
The Secret of This Book / Common Clay
1995
25
The God Who Slept With Women
1995
26
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
2001
27
The Dark Sun Rises
2002
28
Cultural Breaks
2005
29
A Prehistory of Mind
2008
30
Mortal Morning
2011
31
The Invention of Happiness
2013
32
Songs from the Steppes
2014
33
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s
2015
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The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)
2015
35
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)
2015
Best SF Anthologies
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Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2
1969
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Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison)
1969
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Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Harry Harrison)
1970
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Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
1970
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Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (With: Harry Harrison)
1971
6
Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4
1971
7
Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5
1972
8
Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (With: Harry Harrison)
1972
9
Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9
1976
10
Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (With: Harry Harrison)
1976
Libri di non-fiction
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The Shape of Further Things
1970
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Billion Year Spree
1973
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Science Fiction Art
1975
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This World and Nearer Ones
1979
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Pale Shadow of Science
1986
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Trillion Year Spree
1986
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Trillion Year Spree (With: David Wingrove)
1986
8
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography
1986
9
The Detached Retina
1988
10
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's
1990
11
Home Life With Cats
1992
12
When The Feast Is Finished
1994
13
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman
1998
14
Art After Apogee
2000
15
Plutonian Monologue
2000
16
The Starry Messenger
2006
17
An Exile on Planet Earth
2012
18
The Twinkling of an Eye
2015
19
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet
2021
Faber Stories Books
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)
1955
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The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)
1968
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Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)
1982
4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)
1983
5
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)
1989
6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)
1997
7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)
1998
8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)
2009
9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)
2011
10
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)
2012
11
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)
2014
12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)
2014
13
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)
2016
14
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)
2019
15
The Victim (By: P.D. James)
2019
16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)
2019
17
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)
2019
18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)
2019
19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)
2019
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Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)
2019
21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)
2019
22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)
2019
23
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)
2019
24
Three Types of Solitude
2019
25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)
2019
26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)
2019
27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)
2019
28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)
2019
Andromeda Books (with George R.R. Martin, with Harlan Ellison, with Robert Holdstock, with Michael G. Coney, with Christopher Priest, with Naomi Mitchison, with Peter Weston, with Terry Greenhough, with Andrew M. Stephenson)
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Andromeda 2
1977
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Andromeda 3
1978
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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A Chinese Perspective
2000
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A New (Governmental) Father Christmas
2002
Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books (with Howard Waldrop, with Felix C. Gotschalk, with Lisa Tuttle, with Lucius Shepard, with Dan Simmons, with Garry Douglas Kilworth, with Jonathan Carroll, with Paul Di Filippo, with Kate Wilhelm, with Richard Kadrey, with Pat Murphy, with Marta Randall, with John Clute, with David S. Garnett)
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1
1988
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two
1989
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three
1990
Brian W. Aldiss Anthologies
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Penguin Science Fiction
1961
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Best Fantasy Stories
1962
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More Penguin Science Fiction
1963
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The Eighth Galaxy Reader
1965
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Tales of Unease
1966
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Nebula Award Stories #2
1966
7
Introducing Science Fiction
1967
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Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus
1968
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Backdrop of Stars
1968
10
The Inner Landscape
1969
11
Dangerous Visions 1
1969
12
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3
1970
13
Nova 1
1970
14
On Our Way to the Future
1970
15
SF Authors' Choice 2
1970
16
Science Against Man
1970
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The Astounding Analog Reader
1972
18
This Side of Infinity
1972
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The 6th Annual Best SF 72
1973
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Alpha 3
1972
21
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two
1973
22
The Year's Best Science Fiction
1973
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Orbit 12
1973
24
Factions
1974
25
Space Odysseys
1974
26
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology
1974
27
Decade: The 1940's
1975
28
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction
1975
29
New Worlds Nine
1975
30
New Writings in SF 27
1975
31
Evil Earths
1975
32
Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories
1975
33
Hell's Cartographers
1975
34
New Worlds 6
1975
35
Antigrav
1975
36
Andromeda 1
1976
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Decade: The 1950s
1976
38
Galactic Empires 2
1976
39
Beyond Tomorrow
1976
40
Decade: The 1960s
1977
41
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction
1980
42
Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978
1977
43
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
1980
44
Perilous Planets
1978
45
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1980
46
Winter's Tales 26
1981
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Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
1981
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969
1981
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Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
1983
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Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
1985
51
Perpetual Light
1982
52
The Book of Mini-Sagas
1985
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Tales From the Forbidden Planet
1987
54
Gaslight & Ghosts
1988
55
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1
1988
56
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1988
57
The Book of Mini-Sagas 2
1988
58
The Drabble Project
1988
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Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold
1988
60
Dark Fantasies
1989
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989
1989
62
Now We Are Sick
1991
63
Dante's Disciples
1991
64
The Ultimate Frankenstein
1991
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The Amis Story Anthology
1992
66
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection
1993
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Isaac Asimov's Aliens
1991
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Invaders!
1993
69
Isaac Asimov's Robots
1991
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New Worlds 1
1996
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New Worlds No. 221
1996
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Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997
1997
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Mini Sagas 1999
1999
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Nebula Awards 35 (2001)
2001
75
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction
2002
76
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
1993
77
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction
2002
78
Isaac Asimov's War
1993
79
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
1994
80
Mini-Sagas
2002
81
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies
2002
82
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
1995
83
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology
2006
84
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
1995
85
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
86
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011
2010
87
Catastrophia
2010
88
Isaac Asimov's Christmas
1997
89
xo Orpheus
2013
90
Four For Fantasy
2013
91
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
1998
92
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013