In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.[...]
'My final Science Fiction novel' - Brian Aldiss
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terr[...]
For the victims, reality is a fluid mixture of the real, the imaginary and nightmarish, the past, present and future. Colin Charteris, the hero and anti-hero on this disintegrating stage, has not himself survived the cataclysm unscathed, and his gradual descent into fantastic and paranoid visions wi[...]
It is the very near future. Paul Ali, a young science fiction writer, who has the perceived misfortune of a Muslim heritage, has been arrested for no compelling reason. He is held as prisoner B, without a lawyer and isolated. Whenever the powers-that-be fancy a diversion, they beat him up. A foul-mo[...]
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they [...]
'My final Science Fiction novel' - Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious careers in the genre. Set on the Red Planet, it follows a group of colonists and the problems they ha[...]
Brain Aldiss' Summertoys Last All Summer Long included the story that's the basis for the Stanley Kubrick/Steve Spielberg film A.I., in theaters nationwide June 2001. Originally published in 1969, Summertoys Last All Summer Long is the story of a robot boy who longs to be loved by his parents. Th[...]
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.[...]
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by the[...]