He has also edited numerous collections of science fiction stories. He has been a professional writer since his first book, The Brightfount Diaries, was published in 1955 and This employment allowed him to continue his education on his own, and gave him time to After being discharged, he married, had two children, and worked India, Burma, and Indonesia during World War II. He was drafted into the British Army to serve in

Aldiss was born in 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England. The title of Grand Master of Science Fiction. Helliconia Spring, and a James Blish Award for excellence in science fiction criticism, and in 1999 he was awarded Including a Hugo Award for Hothouse, a Nebula Award for The Saliva Tree, a John W. Since the appearance of hisįirst science fiction novel, Non-Stop, in 1958, Aldiss has garnered virtually every major award in the field, Aldiss is a prolific British author who has published criticism, essays, travelogues, short stories,Īnd traditional novels, but who remains best known for his science fiction writing.

Aldiss Brian W(ilson) Aldiss (1925 - ) British author of science fiction, short stories, and poems. Works by Brian Aldiss: Frankenstein unbound, Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter, Report on Probability A, Hothouse, Moment of Eclipse and The Malacia Tapestry.Brian W. Aldiss is an author who is concerned with the human condition and with the ambiguous, exuberant and disturbing nature of our times, a concern that he has conveyed to writings that border on the biographical, full of sensations and evocative images of youth and packed with issues referring to the perception of reality and the ambiguity of our world, in which the terrible and the attractive, the beautiful and the repulsive, exist side by side in a single element. Although his early work goes back to the fifties, he is considered to be one of the moving figures behind the new wave of science fiction, and was the first British author of the genre to be recognised by the country's critics. His vast body of work has brought him numerous prizes and recognition.

Since then, he has published over 40 novels and 300 short stories, as well as poetry and literary criticism. His first incursion into the field of science fiction dates back to 1958 with the appearance of Non-Stop. He published his first novel in 1955 while working as a bookseller in Oxford.

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