Best Selling Books by Brian Wilson Aldiss

The title story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long, soon to be a major film directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android, a cunning construct of artificial intelligence - as is his one ally, his teddy bear. It was a story that hugely affected Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) and Steven Spielberg (who perhaps saw in his forthcoming movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) a complement to his ET!). The other stories in the collection, whether SF, utopian fantasy or dark fable show a master writer at the peak of his considerable powers.

Welcome to Dr Moreau''s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men... Available for the first time in eBook.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

Spanning half a century and three continents, Forgotten Life is the story of two brothers, Joseph and Clement Winter; of Clement''s troubled marriage to his famous wife, Sheila; of Joseph''s astonishing adventures in Burma and Sumatra during World War II; and of a soldier and scholar tied together by kinship and death.

WHITE MARS is Brian Aldiss'' Utopian vision of mankind''s future in space, written in collaboration with distinguished physicist Roger Penrose. Halfway through the next century, an organisation called EUPACUS, consisting of all the leading industrialised nations, has found a way to colonise Mars. They have, however, decided to protect the planet for scientific research. Human beings will live in great, self- perpetuating domes, producing their own food and oxygen, while drawing water from the planet''s core. The option of terraforming the planet, bombarding it with CFCs in order to give it an atmosphere, has been discontinued. Owing to economic collapse on earth the martian colony is cut off from the mother planet (''Downstairs'' as they call it). The head of the colony, Tim Jefferies, sets out to create a perfect society. Some, however, only want to get home, and think that the Utopian ideals (which are all broadcast back to Earth) will only hamper their rescue. An arresting novel of ideals and conflicts WHITE MARS contrasts the warmth of community in the domes with the icy wastes of Mars.

"The moon is a nuclear bonfire, smouldering for 100,000 years after the war to end all wars. Robot slaves toil away on a starved planet, unaware the masters they serve are all but extinct. From the rim of space, a horde of invading primitives brings the message of final doom to the most sublime civilization ever known."--Back cover.

Three characters - Russian-born Dominic, whose marriage is coming adrift, bankrupt, high-flier Ray Tebbutt, and Peter Petrick, a dissident Czech film director, converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb episode in Great Yarmouth.

Paul Ali, a young Muslim writer, finds himself imprisoned because of his comic novel, in which two characters joke about the murder of a British prime minister, and his only escape is to an alien planet that he invents within his own mind.

Large-format book of weird/fantasy/science fiction poetry by SF master Brian W. Aldiss, with suitably Gothic drawings and coloured illustrations (reminiscent of Escher''s work but without the trompe l''oeuil effects) by talented artist Mike Wilks.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Modern Art Oxford, 8 May - 4 July 2004.

Set on the Red Planet, this book follows the stories of a group of colonists and the problems they have in setting up a new society. Life can be sustained by technology but new life will not prosper - the woman on the planet only ever give birth to stillborn children.

Science fiction-noveller.