Brian W. Aldiss

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
# Titolo Anno
1 The Hand-Reared Boy 1970
2 A Soldier Erect 1971
3 A Rude Awakening 1978
The Squire Quartet Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Life in the West 1980
2 Forgotten Life 1988
3 Remembrance Day 1993
4 Somewhere East of Life 1994
Helliconia Books (with Maxim Jakubowski)
# Titolo Anno
1 Helliconia Spring 1982
2 Helliconia Summer 1983
3 Helliconia Winter 1985
Helliconia Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Helliconia Spring 1982
2 Helliconia Summer 1983
3 Helliconia Winter 1985
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Starswarm 1954
2 The Brightfount Diaries 1955
3 Non-Stop / Starship 1958
4 Vanguard From Alpha 1959
5 Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter 1960
6 Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth 1961
7 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
13 Report on Probability A 1968
14 Barefoot in the Head 1969
15 Neanderthal Planet 1969
16 Frankenstein Unbound 1973
17 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
# Titolo Anno
1 Space, Time and Nathaniel 1957
2 No Time Like Tomorrow 1959
3 Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time 1959
4 The Airs of Earth 1963
5 The Saliva Tree 1966
6 Who Can Replace a Man? 1966
7 Intangibles, Inc.: And Other Stories 1969
8 Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories 1969
9 The Moment of Eclipse 1970
10 Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss 1972
11 Equator 1973
12 Brothers of the Head 1977
13 Last Orders 1977
14 Pile 1979
15 New Arrivals, Old Encounters 1979
16 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
34 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) 2015
35 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) 2015
Best SF Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 1969
2 Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison) 1969
3 Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Harry Harrison) 1970
4 Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 1970
5 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
# Titolo Anno
1 The Shape of Further Things 1970
2 Billion Year Spree 1973
3 Science Fiction Art 1975
4 This World and Nearer Ones 1979
5 Pale Shadow of Science 1986
6 Trillion Year Spree 1986
7 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
# Titolo Anno
1 A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955
2 The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman) 1968
3 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
20 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)
# Titolo Anno
1 Andromeda 2 1977
2 Andromeda 3 1978
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 A Chinese Perspective 2000
2 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)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988
2 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two 1989
3 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three 1990
Brian W. Aldiss Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Penguin Science Fiction 1961
2 Best Fantasy Stories 1962
3 More Penguin Science Fiction 1963
4 The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965
5 Tales of Unease 1966
6 Nebula Award Stories #2 1966
7 Introducing Science Fiction 1967
8 Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus 1968
9 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
17 The Astounding Analog Reader 1972
18 This Side of Infinity 1972
19 The 6th Annual Best SF 72 1973
20 Alpha 3 1972
21 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973
22 The Year's Best Science Fiction 1973
23 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
37 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
47 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
48 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981
49 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
50 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
51 Perpetual Light 1982
52 The Book of Mini-Sagas 1985
53 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
59 Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold 1988
60 Dark Fantasies 1989
61 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
65 The Amis Story Anthology 1992
66 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection 1993
67 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
68 Invaders! 1993
69 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
70 New Worlds 1 1996
71 New Worlds No. 221 1996
72 Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 1997
73 Mini Sagas 1999 1999
74 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 2013
93 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
94 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
95 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
96 Year's Best SF 5 2000
97 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
98 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
99 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001
Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction 1980
2 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
3 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
4 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
5 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
6 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
7 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite 1993
8 Isaac Asimov's War 1993
9 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams 1994
10 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep 1995
11 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts 1995
12 Isaac Asimov's Christmas 1997
13 Isaac Asimov's Camelot 1998
14 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
15 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
16 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
17 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
18 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
19 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001