Brian Aldiss

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Brian Aldiss : biography

18 August 1925 –

Poetry

  • Home Life With Cats (1992)
  • At The Caligula Hotel (1995)
  • Songs From The Steppes Of Central Asia (1995)
  • A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife’s Death (The Frogmore Papers, 2000)
  • At A Bigger House (2002)
  • The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
  • A Prehistory of Mind (Mayapple Press, 2008)
  • Mortal Morning (2011)

Nonfiction

  • Cities and Stones: A Traveller’s Yugoslavia (1966)
  • The Shape of Further Things: Speculations on Change (1970)
  • Item Eighty Three (1972), by Brian and Margaret Aldiss — A bibliography of Aldiss’s published works, this book being number 83
  • Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973) — BSFA special award
  • Hell’s Cartographers (1975), co-edited with Harry Harrison — A collection of short autobiographical pieces by a number of science fiction writers, including Aldiss. The title is a reference to Kingsley Amis’s survey of science fiction, New Maps of Hell.
  • This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar (1979).
  • Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986), by Aldiss and David Wingrove — A revised and expanded version of Billion Year Spree and winner of the 1987 Hugo Award for the year’s best nonfiction. At the ‘Conspiracy 87’ ceremony, Aldiss began his acceptance speech by holding the Hugo aloft and proclaiming, to general approbation, "It’s been a long time since you’ve given me one of these, you bastards!"David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, Cosmos Books, 2005, p. 82. The quotation may not be reported exactly.
  • The Pale Shadow Of Science (1985), collected essays
  • … And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986), articles and autobiography
  • Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s: A Writing Life (1990), autobiography
  • The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1995).
  • The Twinkling of an Eye, or My Life as an Englishman (1998)
  • When the Feast is Finished (1999), by Brian and Margaret Aldiss
  • Art After Apogee: The Relationships Between an Idea, a Story, a Painting (2000), by Aldiss and Rosemary Phipps

Anthologies edited

  • Penguin Science Fiction (1961)
  • More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
  • Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 1 (with Harry Harrison) (1968)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 2 (with Harry Harrison) (1969)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 3 (with Harry Harrison) (1970)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 4 (with Harry Harrison) (1971)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 5 (with Harry Harrison) (1972)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 6 (with Harry Harrison) (1973)
  • The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
  • Space Opera (1974)
  • Decade: the 1940’s (with Harry Harrison) (1975)
  • Decade: the 1950’s (with Harry Harrison) (1976)
  • Decade: the 1960’s (with Harry Harrison) (1979)
  • Evil Earths (1976)
  • Galactic Empires, Volume 1 (1976)
  • Galactic Empires, Volume 2 (1976)
  • Mini Sagas from the Daily Telegraph Competition (1998) ISBN 978-0-7509-1594-6
  • Mini Sagas From the Daily Telegraph Competition 2001 (2001) ISBN 978-1-900564-77-9
  • A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) ISBN 978-0-14-118892-8

Other

  • "Umwelts for Hire", Doctor Who Brilliant Book 2011 (BBC Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84607-991-7), a Doctor Who short story