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The Canopy of Time is a collection of 11 stories from 1959 (previously known as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand). This NEL edition from the '70s has a rather nice Bruce Pennington cover. To quote Aldiss "they are all slices off the enormous carcass of the future, arranged chronologically from a...

Walcot is his biggest novel so far. I don't think its SF but it may be interesting being about pre war England I belive. Goldmark Books - Publishers of beautiful limited edition books and art catalogues. From brianaldiss.org: Walcot Published! Brian's novel Walcot, a book he regards as his...

Paul Ali, a young British writer with Muslim parents but who calls himself a secularist, has written and published a comic novel in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse. The book attracted some minor attention and made him a very small amount of money. One passage, in which the protagonists joke...

Now this is the first time I've done this and I'm not great with words so bear with me! This is a rather unusual book,because it exists as two strands and at first it doesnt sound like science fiction at all.I've seen this book compared to Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' or Dick's 'A Scanner Darkly'...

Hothouse is a 'fixup' novel originally published in 1962, comprising five novelettes originally published in 1961 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The combined novelettes were jointly awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction (and not Best Novel as sometimes claimed: that...

Originally published in 1958, Non-Stop (originally entitled Starship in the USA, but now restored to its original title) frequently appears among lists of the all-time great science fiction novels. This is an accolade of which it is more than deserving. Roy Complain's tribe lives in Quarters...

I don't know if anyone else receives the Ansible newsletter but I got this today. Maybe I could post each newsletter in here every month? Ansible 252, July 2008

Wow I am surprised there's no mention of this award winning author on here. I just did a search on here,not one thread started! Well I like some of his stuff,particularly Hothouse which i found brilliant even tho its more like science fantasy. His novella The Saliva Tree is superb steampunk, and...

I haven't noticed many discussions around the Author Brian Aldiss and I just wondered what people's general opinions of his works are? I've found his work hudgely varied in terms of style, pace, themes and quality. For instance his stories "Non-Stop", "Equator" & "Hot House" are fast paced...

Hi, Just to announce the release next month of a brand new anthology featuring most of the biggest names in British SF: CELEBRATION edited by Ian Whates Commemorating 50 years of the British Science Fiction Association with original stories from: Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Molly...

Just received news of the possible filming of Non Stop in a Ansible newsletter http://news.ansible.co.uk/a246.html

What would you ask Brian Aldiss if you could?

Hothouse, Brian Aldiss' contribution to the SF tradition of dying-earth stories first appeared as a serial in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1961. As a 'fix-up' novel, an expansion and patch-up of several shorter peices, it also belongs to another SF tradition, one that stretches...

I've just started reading this book- my excuse for having the time to read is because I'm ill at home- and so far I'm quite enjoying it. I've read the Yuli prelude and quite enjoyed it. Anyone else read it and have any thoughts?

I know that dwndrgn has been reading this too, so it would be interesting to contrast both our views. In the meantime, here's my take on this book: Brian Aldiss' The Malacia Tapestry is a baroque entertainment, a ribald picaresque. It's an admirable feat of world building, creating a city -...

Helliconia Trilogy The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. In fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall as the planet orbits the giant sun Freyr every 3000 years. The trilogy won the J.W. Campbell...