New Releases by Brian W. Aldiss

Third in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss challenged readers'' minds for over fifty years with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Ray and Ruby Tebbutt are a Norfolk couple struggling to pay off a loan they could not afford. Peter Petrik, a small-time Czech film director, is involved with an Irish arms smuggler. Dominic Mayor, a British millionaire with a cold past, made his fortune by manipulating the stock market. All four people''s lives are taken by a terrorist bombing in a small British seaside hotel. In Remembrance Day, an American academic examines the details of the victims'' lives and histories to find the relationship between them and their fate. "In another significant mainstream outing, British science-fiction/fantasy grandmaster Aldiss discovers fresh and arresting nuances in the dichotomy between blind chance and predestination in human affairs...original, disturbing, and memorable." — Kirkus Reviews This ebook includes an introduction by the author.

First in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with lovely, but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire''s private life—the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father''s death, and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England. Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss challenged readers'' minds for over fifty years with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. "A complex, thoughtful and beguiling story by one of our best novelists." —William Boyd This ebook includes an introduction by the author.

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 a piercing light on timeless human verities, HARM is a powerfully compact masterwork that is sure to be one of the most passionately discussed books of the year. The time is today or tomorrow—or perhaps the day after tomorrow. Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali, a young British citizen of Muslim descent, has written a satirical novel in which two characters joke about the assassination of the prime minister. Arrested by agents of HARM—the Hostile Activities Research Ministry—Paul is thrown into a nameless Abu Ghraib-like prison, possibly located in Syria, where he is held incommunicado and brutally interrogated by jailers to whom his Muslim heritage is itself a crime meriting the harshest punishment. Under this sadistic regime, Paul’s personality begins to show signs of radical fragmentation. . . . On the remote planet of Stygia, a man named Fremant, haunted by memories of torture that seem drawn from Paul’s mind, is one of a small group of colonists struggling for survival on a harsh but weirdly beautiful world whose dominant life-forms are insects. The sole humanoid race on the planet has been hunted to extinction by the human settlers, whose long journey to Stygia has left them unable to understand their own history and technology. Thrown back to a more primitive state, they seem destined to repeat all the sins of the world they fled to Stygia to escape. Is Paul dreaming Fremant as a way of escaping the horrors of his imprisonment? Or is there a stronger—and far stranger—connection between the two men, whose very different circumstances begin to take on uncanny parallels? As aspects of their identities blur and, finally, merge, astonishing answers take shape—and profound new questions arise.

Un acto de inimaginable traicion esta detras de la batalla que abre la novela. Pero junto con el invierno llega la plaga y el Oligarca esta empenado en vencerla, y en vencer a los phagors, los viejos enemigos de la humanidad, que llevan la plaga con ellos.

A collection of science fiction tales, including the story of a robot boy who wants nothing more than to be loved by his parents.

Entre las luces y sombras de las calles de Malacia -- un enigmatico mundo paralelo en el que los hombres descienden de los dinosaurios y los cambios y novedades estan prohibidos-- marcha una apretada multitud: duques, mercaderes prosperos, familias arruinadas, actrices sacerdotes, cortesanos, mendicantes, soldados, y empresarios de teatro venidos a menos. Perian de Chirolo, actor y hombre de mundo, va de un lado a otro entre estas gentes, aspirando a la noble mano de Armida Hoytola, navegando en un globo aerostatico, matando feroces ancestros, y tropezandose con las intrigas y secretos mas oscuros. Mientras, el destino vengador, inexorable y subrepticio, anunciado por magos y astrologos y enredadas obras de teatro, lleva a Chirolo, y a Malacia, a los umbrales de una nueva era.