Brian W Aldiss: 36 books

Book cover of The Dark Light Years
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

A strange alien species forces us to question our definition of civilization in this biting satire from the Grand Master of Science Fiction. What would intelligent life‑forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures...
Book cover of Helliconia Winter
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

A civilization crumbles as its planet hurtles away from its star in the final chapter of this “monumental” epic from the Grand Master of Science Fiction (The Times, London). After many centuries, the flowering of human civilization has begun to dwindle again and the Great Year slowly progresses...
Book cover of In the Shadow of the Towers

In the Shadow of the Towers

Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World

by Richard Bowes, Gregory Feeley, Susan Palwick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly). How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...
Book cover of Helliconia Summer
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

The Grand Master of Science Fiction’s “monumental” epic continues as Helliconia nears its larger star—and a strange visitor joins its civilization (The Times, London). A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven...
Book cover of Non-Stop
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005

Non-Stop remains a brilliant and ground-breaking work of imagination. Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. It's members lived out their lives in cramped quarters, hacking away at the encroaching jungle called “the ponics.? As to where they were—that had long ago been forgotten. But Roy...
Book cover of Greybeard
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this “adult Lord of the Flies” by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the “Accident,” all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under....
Book cover of Barefoot in the Head
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

A new savior emerges from a drugged-out dystopia in “the most ambitious psychedelic sci-fi novel of the era” from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Conceptual Fiction). The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans...
Book cover of HARM

HARM

A Novel

by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

From one of science fiction’s greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Orwell’s 1984, and Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political climate and a visionary allegory that shines...
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