A Science Fiction Omnibus
This new edition of Brian Aldiss’s classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’, first published in 1941, to the 2006 story ‘Friends in Need’ by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A. E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to uncanny far distant worlds and ancient burnt-out suns, the one constant is humanity itself, compelled by an often fatal curiosity to explore the boundless frontiers of time, space and probability.
Chinese Perspective
A major science fiction novella by the master of British science fiction. First published almost a quarter of a century ago, it is republished here in its own right for the first time. 'The best contemporary writer of science fiction.' Guardian 'The colossus of science fiction'New Yorker
Barefoot in the Head
'An extraordinary book' The Listener 'An extremely urgent criticism of the present' Daily Telegraph The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary. When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make sense of the drugged-out world, he is taken as the new messiah. As he descends into paranoid visions, he begins to believe this himself.
Helliconia
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...
Greybeard
'Greybeard is a potent elegy for the human condition ... beautifully observed and written, involving and profound' Adam Roberts Ecological disaster has left England a wasteland. Atomic testing in space has got out of hand and slowly the truth dawn...
Hothouse
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 menti...
Brothers of the Head
Sci-fi legend Brian Aldiss' dark and compelling story of Siamese twin boys with a third dormant head. Tom and Barry are Siamese twins with a third head growing out of Barry's shoulder. They are plucked from their deprived home by showbiz entrepren...
Complete Short Stories: The 1950s
In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. Volume ...
Pale Shadow of Science
Two of Aldiss' essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume. In this warm, chatty, opinionated collection of essays, Brian Aldiss tells the reader a bit about his youth, holds forth on the position of science fiction within the literary and ...
Malacia Tapestry
In Malacia, a city where change is forbidden and radical ideas are crushed, a war like no other is about to commence? The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author's entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recen...
Male Response
Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author's entire career, from his debut in...
Report on Probability A
Controversial and brilliant, Report on Probability A is a claustrophobic and terrifying novel that examines the politics of surveillance and ownership. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author's entire career, from h...
Interpreter
Earthman Gary Towler is a pariah. He must interpret the will of the Nuls who rule his planet, Earth, and he's running out of time to overthrow their plans? The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known universe is dominated by the Nul...
Eighty Minute Hour
An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss's strangest novel, and that is saying something.
Enemies of the System
An electrifying journey one millions years into the future: meet the Utopian race of Homo Uniformis - men logical, unemotional, and totally alike? In the future, mankind's physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, ...
Super-State
A masterful evocation of the future of nationhood and technology from the master of British science fiction. A stunning new edition of a modern classic. 'The titan of science fiction.'- Telegraph Forty years has passed and 'Europe' now refers to v...
Cryptozoic!
In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy 'trip' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an...
Non-Stop
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. When Roy Complain loses his wife, he decides to find out. Wit...
Cretan Teat
A ribald tale from Britain's best-love Science Fiction writer. The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus. This false icon gets adopted by the people - an...
Primal Urge
How would you like to have a disc set in the middle of your forehead which glowed pink whenever you felt sexually aroused? This is the basis of Brian Aldiss' amazingly funny and original novel, first published in 1961 and set in a near-future Brit...
