Most Popular Books by Brian Wilson Aldiss

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 make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down ... Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.

A haunting picture of an Earth where humanity has become sterile (because of radiation from atomic testing in space) and an increasingly decrepit ageing population lives out its days amidst a burgeoning nature reclaiming the crumbling towns and villages in a riot of vegetation and new animal life.

"Discusses the works of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian, H.G. Wells, John W. Campbell, and others from Victorian times to the present."-- ǂc (Source of summary not specified.

From Hugo and Nebula Award winner Brian W. Aldiss comes the third book of the internationally bestselling Helliconia trilogy. A fitting culmination, not only for the trilogy . . ., but for Aldiss'' career to date . . . highly recommended.--Fantasy Review.

A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from their hiding places and are again able to dispute possession of the planet with the ferocious phagors. In Oldorando, love, trade and coinage are being redisovered, This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today''s imaginative writers.

''We devotees of SF enjoy its diversity of opinion, the bustle of bright and dark, the clash of progress and entropy, the clamour of theories about the past, the future, the ever present present, everything’, writes Brian Aldiss. In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writing and writers.

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.

"Two moons circle the dead planet Earth... but the race of man who eons ago escaped its withered crust live lives of bizarre variety on Starswarm. A part of the neo-human species who populate the far-flung sectors of a wondrous galactic cluster, they struggle to survive, to shape their destiny, to control forces they themselves have brought into being..."--Pg. [4] of cover.

Science fiction-roman. Arkitekturhistorikeren Roy Burnell er blevet frastjålet 10 år af sin elskovshukommelse. Hans eftersøgning fører ham vidt omkring under dække af at registrere bevaringsværdig arkitektur

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This special collection of short stories from Grand Master Brian Aldiss is being issued to coincide with his 80th birthday. Set to include such notable works as "Aboard the Beatitude," "A Man with His Mule," and "Head," the anthology will also feature commentaries from a group of his peers sharing their perspectives on this amazingly talented individual.