Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE
pen names: Jael Cracken, Dr. Peristyle and C. C. Shackleton.
born Norfolk, England: 18 August 1925
died Oxford, England: 19 August 2017
Brian W. Aldiss was an English author, artist, and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels, short fiction and short stories, essays and his non-fiction.
Following WWII he worked in a bookshop, and began writing fiction about the book trade, which was later collected in The Brightfount Diaries (1955). He became editor of The Oxford Mail in 1958.
He began publishing work of genre interest with Criminal Record (1954) in Science Fantasy.
His first novel, Non Stop (1958) is a generational ship story, whose inhabitants pick up and alien amino acid on another planet and trigger a pandemic.
Aldiss became closely aligned with the British New Wave of SF in the1960's, and established himself as an important SF anthologist and critic.
He is best known for the novel Hothouse (1961), for his Heliconias trilogy, beginning with Helliconia Spring (1982), and for Supertoys Last All Summer Long (1969), which was adapted into the film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001.
His works commonly have themes of interstellar travel, dystopia, climate change, immortality and time travel.
He is another author whose work frequently appears in answers to queries within the SFF Chronicles Book Search forum.
A list of his works is to be found here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?131
Wikipedia page: Brian Aldiss - Wikipedia
pen names: Jael Cracken, Dr. Peristyle and C. C. Shackleton.
born Norfolk, England: 18 August 1925
died Oxford, England: 19 August 2017
Brian W. Aldiss was an English author, artist, and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels, short fiction and short stories, essays and his non-fiction.
Following WWII he worked in a bookshop, and began writing fiction about the book trade, which was later collected in The Brightfount Diaries (1955). He became editor of The Oxford Mail in 1958.
He began publishing work of genre interest with Criminal Record (1954) in Science Fantasy.
His first novel, Non Stop (1958) is a generational ship story, whose inhabitants pick up and alien amino acid on another planet and trigger a pandemic.
Aldiss became closely aligned with the British New Wave of SF in the1960's, and established himself as an important SF anthologist and critic.
He is best known for the novel Hothouse (1961), for his Heliconias trilogy, beginning with Helliconia Spring (1982), and for Supertoys Last All Summer Long (1969), which was adapted into the film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001.
His works commonly have themes of interstellar travel, dystopia, climate change, immortality and time travel.
He is another author whose work frequently appears in answers to queries within the SFF Chronicles Book Search forum.
A list of his works is to be found here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?131
Wikipedia page: Brian Aldiss - Wikipedia
