Brian Aldiss

This brief, late trilogy contains much of his lively humour, one improbable invention, and a pervasive sense of loneliness and longing.

Three Types of Solitude

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 their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.

Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter

Helliconia

Brian Wilson Aldiss

In a strange future, the few remaining humans are regularly consumed by savage greenery, and their only allies are the giant Termights. Spiders over a mile in length travel to the Moon on interplanetary cobwebs, and the stationary world is now split between perpetual day and unending night. But the elders are facing the end of their time, so leadership is given to a youn girl, Toy. The groups manchild Gren wants to be his own leader, however, and with his maring partner will tear apart the group in his search of a new eden. Summoning up a world of carnivorous trees and giant insects, Hothouse is a landmark novel of the environment in crisis.

Hothouse

'No way of solving these problems exists any more. The conventions collapsed like old bridges. On the one side of the gulf is the mind, eternal and untouched - on the other, the body, running, jumping, bleeding ... The mind can take care of itself, as it has had to from the very beginning; it's not as smart as the body, but it can survive.' The future Earth of Brian Aldiss's Earthworks is a moribund ecological disaster, ruined by poisons, greed, unsustainable development and overpopulation. Mankind is broken, starving, wracked with disease and divided by bitter social injustice. Our window into this terrible world is the dangerous, crazed Knowle Noland, whose destructive impulses threaten to upturn the wreckage of civilization, either to redemption or final catastrophe. Rarely do Science Fiction works stand well the test of time as their suppositions are out-dated and superseded; Brian Aldiss's vision is remarkable for having come closer to reality decades after he conceived of this terrible future.

Earthworks

An Anthology

The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction

Harry Harrison

Six bestselling authors provide lively personal histories that provide fascinating insights into the creative process — and offer inspiration for aspiring wordsmiths. Includes essays by Robert Silverberg, Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, and Brian W. Aldiss.

Hell's Cartographers

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.

Non-Stop

Ruins

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.

Super-State

VERLOREN IM WELTRAUM Ein gigantisches Raumschiff driftet seit Jahrhunderten scheinbar ziellos durch Raum und Zeit. Allmählich haben Schlingpflanzen das Innere des Schiffs überwuchert und die Nachkommen der ursprünglichen Besatzung sind in primitive Strukturen zurückgefallen. Das Wissen um Technik, den Weltraum – ja sogar wer sie sind und woher sie kommen – ist in Vergessenheit geraten. Roy Complain ist einer der Bewohner des Schiffs. Als Roys Frau von einer verfeindeten Gruppe entführt wird, verlässt er das ihm bekannte Territorium. Auf seiner Suche trifft er nicht nur auf bizarre Lebensformen, sondern entdeckt Hinweise auf den Ursprung ihrer Mission... Brian Aldiss Roman STARSHIP wurde erstmals 1958 veröffentlicht, und bezeichnet den Anfang der großen Karriere des berühmten Science Fiction Autor

Starship - Verloren im Weltraum

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Adam Roberts

Wojciech Orlinski

Sarah Schofield

Jacek Dukaj

Toby Litt

Ian Watson

Sean O'Brien

Trevor Hoyle

Adam Marek

Annie Clarkson

Piotr Szulkin

We know Stanislaw Lem, whether or not we consciously know that we do. He may only be recognised in the West as the author of the twice-filmed novel, Solaris, but the influence of his other work is legion. From computer games (The Sims was inspired by one of his short stories), to films (the red and blue pills of The Matrix owe much to his Futurological Congress); from the space comedies of Red Dwarf to the metaphysical satires of Douglas Adams... the presence of this masterly Polish writer can be traced far and wide. Nor was his genius confined to fiction. Lem's essays and pseudo-essays borne out of the military industrial tensions of the Cold War have outlived their original context and speak to the most current developments in virtual reality, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. To celebrate his name, as well as his vision, this anthology brings together writers, critics and scientists who continue to grapple with his concerns. British and Polish novelists join screenwriters, poets, computer engineers, and artists, to celebrate and explore Lem's legacy through short stories and essays - two literary forms that, as Lem knew well, can blend together to create something altogether new. As one of the barriers to Lem's fame was language, this book also features specially commissioned translations: three stories never to have appeared in English before. Lem was always ahead of us. It's time we caught up.

Lemistry

In the future, mankind’s physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show.

Enemies of the System

A new novel from one of Britain’s best-loved writer, Brian Aldiss OBE, set in and around his home-town of Oxford.

Comfort Zone

Den levende Frankenstein

Aldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.

This World and Nearer Ones

The groundbreaking novel about sex and growing up, available as an ebook for the first time.

The Hand-Reared Boy (Horatio Stubbs, Book 1)

A dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can... Available for the first time in eBook.

Dracula Unbound (The Monster Trilogy)

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 recent work.

The Malacia Tapestry (The Brian Aldiss Collection)

The final volume of the critically acclaimed Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.

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