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	Brian Aldiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction.
		Aldiss confessed to being a science fiction author, to the delight of the publishers, who had a number of science fiction fans in high places, and so his first science fiction book, Space, Time and Nathaniel was published.
		Aldiss had only had thirteen stories published at that time, and a fourteenth was hurriedly written to make up the numbers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Aldiss (1714 words)

	Brian Aldiss
		Brian Aldiss began his career as a bookseller in Oxford (wonderfully described in his sadly out-of-print biography, Bury My Heart At W.H. Smith's.
		This is Aldiss at his most subtle - fantasy readers would recognize it as such, but arty types are likely to label it serious literary fiction, and they'd both be right.
		We haven't seen a review copy, but all the indications are that this is Aldiss to savour, in terms of his wonderful ability to capture atmosphere and to multi-layer interest and intrigue.
	www.cul.co.uk /books/sfauth10.htm (1094 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Brian Aldiss is a master of the form.
		But his have all the strengths of a good novel." JG Ballard, who was, with Aldiss, one of the founders of the new wave of British science fiction in the 60s, says "Brian has always been a highly professional writer.
		Aldiss says, half joking, that the feat which really impressed Amis when they first met was that Aldiss had, as a young man in Sumatra, one night in the mess drunk a pint mug full of crème de menthe.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4204853,00.html (3586 words)

	Brian Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brian Aldiss is the recipient of numerous international awards for...
		Brian W. Aldiss was born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England.
		Brian Aldiss Official site dedicated to the life and work of Brian W. Aldiss, writer of science fiction and mainstream novels, critic, poet and dramatist.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Brian_Aldiss.html (2648 words)

	Review \| Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In other words, Brian Aldiss is a pillar of SF, renowned for the excellence of his prolific and diverse contributions.
		Aldiss recounts his side of the story's long, frustrating journey from print to screen (it was recently filmed by Steven Spielberg as AI, the name Kubrick had long ago given the adaptation) and also shares his own attempts at turning his short fable into a feature-length screen story.
		As "Attempting to Please" shows, Aldiss can still be a terrific writer, though perhaps his talents are now better turned towards memoirs and essays (his last few awards and nominations, not surprisingly, were for his landmark SF history Trillion Year Spree and for his autobiography Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's).
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/supertoys.html (649 words)

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		Aldiss is deliberately augmenting his characters' sense of place and traditions by incorporating into these disparate individuals his own at once grim and wondrous fascination with Norfolk and its ambivalent attractions.
		In this perfectly realized novella, Aldiss almost simultaneously deals with a number of themes as if he were a conjurer masterfully juggling head and heart, the inner and outer self, appearance and reality, the popular mind, the deleterious effects of mass culture, love and sex, and the nature of dreams to name only a few.
		Aldiss would be the first to insist, however, that he is not in the business of writing, whether it be science fiction or so-called mainstream literature, to provide answers.
	www.artapprentice.net /dune/willis18.txt (7197 words)

	Brian Aldiss
		Born in 1925, Brian Aldiss has had a lengthy writing career encompassing poet, film critic, anthologist, and newspaper literary editor, but he is best known for his contributions to the world of science fiction.
		Aldiss was one of the three main writers in the British science fiction "New Wave" along with Michael Moorcock and J.
		Now in his 80s, Aldiss continues to publish work that makes readers see things in a new light (his 2000 novel White Mars written in conjunction with physicist/mathematician Roger Penrose poses important questions about the colonization of other worlds), but he has not confined himself to science fiction.
	www.nndb.com /people/411/000026333 (340 words)

	SF Hub: Brian Aldiss archive
		Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925-) is one of the major figures of British science fiction.
		Yet, it is with science fiction that Aldiss remains most associated and through the quality of his fiction and non-fiction and his involvement with both science fiction organizations and the literary establishment, he has done much to promote the genre.
		The Brian Aldiss archival collection at Liverpool spans the period 1943-1995 but, at 15 boxes, is merely a supplement to the main Brian Aldiss Archive at The Bodleian Library.
	www.sfhub.ac.uk /Aldiss.htm (546 words)

	Brian Aldiss
		Brian Aldiss is the recipient of numerous international awards for science-fiction writing including a Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and a Prix Jules Verne (Sweden).
		Brian Aldiss is an internationally famous science fiction writer, particularly honoured in Europe and the U.S.A. where he regularly attends SF conventions.
		Aldiss' futuristic fables have had a 'poetic' approach to the genre (his equivalent in American SF is Ray Bradbury), and helped move it more into the literary mainstream.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth01J29L511112620228 (2042 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Brian W. Aldiss
		Certainly, much of Aldiss' work was more literary than was the norm for the genre, and thus can be seen as a precursor to the New Wave movement of the mid-to-late '60s.
		Aldiss garnered another Hugo award in 1962 - and yet more criticism for scientific implausibity - for a series of novelletes, later collected in book form as Hothouse (variant US title - The Long Afternoon of Earth).
		Aldiss has continued to produce a substatial body of short stories, essays, and poems, and although he has yet to create another such wonderfully realized SF novel, his literary contributions to the genre throughout his long career resulted in his being honored in 1999 by the SFWA with a much deserved Nebula Grand Master award.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/aldiss.htm (1135 words)

	Brian Aldiss: Super-State - an infinity plus review
		It is splendid to read an SF novel that deals with the problems of humankind seriously and Aldiss relishes in his stature as a writer to write whatever he likes.
		I don't think Aldiss cares about these issues much here, for the novel's main concern is human nature, which he believes is enduring, particularly in its worst and weakest characteristics.
		Aldiss doesn't know why we are as we are any more than does anyone else.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/superstate.htm (505 words)

	Brian Aldiss: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brian Wilson Aldiss (born August 18, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Aldiss had only had thirteen stories published at that time, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian novel by prolific british science fiction author brian aldiss....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brian_aldiss.htm (2975 words)

	Jocasta by Brian Aldiss (Hardcover)
		In Jocasta, Brian Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, hermaphroditic philosophers, ghostly apparitions and ambivalent gods.
		Jocasta is also a strikingly effective contemplation of an older world order where the human mind is still struggling to understand itself and the nature of the world around it; for in Jocasta’s world the human mind is on the cusp of completing its emergence from the slumber of precivilisation to that of modernity.
		Aldiss sheds a fresh, occasionally humorous, light on this dark story of rare vintage.
	www.clarkesworldbooks.com /book_0954827708.html (231 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: New Arrivals, Old Encounters / Brian Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aldiss sticks it to The Man. A polemic masquerading as a story, about an alien world whose humanoid natives enjoy a peaceful, perfect, idyllic communal life (they're basically hippies) until big ol' mean violent greedy Earth people show up in a spaceship and fuck everything up.
		Some of the scenarios don't seem entirely realistic, and one gets the impression Aldiss is exaggerating to make his points, but what is convincing is the depiction of how human nature is changed by adversity, for better and for worse.
		Often, Aldiss writes his philosophical tales in very broad strokes, and this one is no exception.
	www.sfreviews.net /newarrivals.html (713 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Moment of Eclipse
		Brian W. Aldiss was born in 1925 in the UK.
		Brian Aldiss is one of the authors I think of as my Shapers.
		Here is a fine display of Aldiss' poetic stylings, his use of grimy doomed imagery to set the hairs at the back of your neck tingling.
	www.sfsite.com /08a/me109.htm (1105 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Brian W. Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brian W. Aldiss is one of science fiction's most prolific authors of substance, and perhaps its most exploratory.
		Aldiss began publishing short stories in 1954, and in 1958 published his first novel, Non-Stop.
		A brilliant treatment of the generation starship theme, it is now regarded as a classic of the field, and helped earn Aldiss the award for most promising new author at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=84 (408 words)

	Brian aldiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Brian W. Aldiss
		Vous, qui découvrez ces lignes et qui n'êtes peut être pas un immense spécialiste de la science-fiction, seriez vous prêt à jurer honnêtement que, sans Spielberg et A.I., vous saviez que Brian Aldiss est un auteur de SF et que c'est l'un de ces textes qui a inspiré le scénario du film précité.
		Avec ces trois livres, Brian Aldiss se hisse définitivement au niveau des plus grands, de ces créateurs de monde où chaque détail sonne vrai et où le souffle épique de l'auteur vous emmène sans heurt aux confins de la galaxie et de nos rêves.
		Brian Aldiss nous a donné et continue à nous donner le moyen de vivre dans des utopies que notre mémoire n'est pas en mesure de créer.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /listes.sf/aldiss/bio.htm (1349 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Brian Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An Age (published in the US as Cryptozoic!) is a 1967 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss.
		Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 horror movie based on Brian Aldiss novel of the same name.
		He was told that the orbital (additional info and facts about orbital) dynamics involved meant that it was nonsense, but the image of the earth and moon side by side in orbit, shrouded with cobwebs woven by giant vegetable spiders, was so outrageous and appealing that he published it anyway.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brian-Aldiss (3270 words)

	STANLEY KUBRICK, BRIAN ALDISS AND A.I. (PART ONE)
		Aldiss couldn’t imagine what Kubrick saw in the story or why he wanted to adapt it, though he surmises it was the theme of the failure of mother and child to communicate.
		This left his project with Brian Aldiss up in the air, but he found a characteristically cavalier method to escape from this.
		Aldiss was impressed by Kubrick’s willingness to use his prestige and his worldwide connections.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /art_kub_1.html (1476 words)

	Brian Aldiss: Report On Probability A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brian Aldiss is something of the Olde Man of this British New Wave, an established and wide-ranging writer who was by no means a Young Turk.
		Aldiss' New Wave masterpiece is Report On Probability A.
		Truth is what Report On Probability A is all about, and Aldiss points out that it is a plastic thing that depends on who is trying to figure it out, and an ambiguous thing that may, at it's root, be unknowable.
	www.strangewords.com /aldiss1.html (653 words)

	Brian Aldiss on Philip K Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The room was very crowded, and I was sitting in the second row immediately behind Aldiss (before and after he took his place on stage).
		Like a character from one of his novels, the central PKD figure is wont to interpret aspects of his environment (such as the advertisements carried by passing London buses) as personal messages to him from some higher intelligence.
		Aldiss’ intention in the play, as stated in his introduction, is to explore the motivations behind Dick’s preoccupations, his personality, and above all, his writing.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /articles/aldiss.htm (562 words)

	Amazon.com: Remembrance Day: Books: Brian Wilson Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aldiss scrutinizes several disparate lives in detail, in what is in effect a series of novellas.
		Brian Aldiss, better known for his works of science fiction, steps out of his traditional category and presents a series of interrelated stories about the lives of those touched, both directly and indirectly, by a terrorist explosion in a quiet seaside village in the UK.
		Aldiss then explores the lives of his characters with a richness that is compelling, in that the stories are interesting, and gives the reader a foundation upon which to draw their own conclusions regarding the professor's hypothesis.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312093705?v=glance (839 words)

	Brian Aldiss - REVIEWS
		THE MALACIA TAPESTRY by Brian Aldiss (Methuen £3.50 pp 292)
		Part of the interest of this book is to see how Aldiss brings things in and then lets them fade from view, when they would be climaxes in other people's work - it actually takes some close reading to decide which animal is being referred to by so homely names.
		What Aldiss does do in those stories as in many others is to cast himself into another nationality (Danish in the former case, Indian in the other), for reasons I cannot exactly fathom.
	ds.dial.pipex.com /l.j.hurst/baldiss.htm (1506 words)

	Brian Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brian Aldiss’s wonderful novel takes us into a land bedevilled by the dual threats of war and global warming, where androids are a nuisance and kept locked in the cupboard, and where a subversive group called the ‘Insanatics’ is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population.
		And it is on this ‘Ayers Rock in the sky’ that Tom Jeffries slowly creates his goal: the humanising of science, the improvement of human existence, the freeing of the mind from its dangerous past...
		By now, Aldiss' stylistic concerns and unconventional themes had much in common with the New Wave movement, and he was instrumental in helping obtain an Arts Council grant for New Worlds, the flagship magazine of the New Wave.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/brianaldiss.html (1254 words)

	Brian Aldiss on Queen's Honours List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Following the publication of the Honours List, investitures are held at which recipients of honours receive, usually from the Queen, the insignia of the honour.
		Aldiss has written over forty novels and over 300 short stories.
		Aldiss has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, British Science Fiction Award, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
	www.sfwa.org /news/aldissobe.htm (191 words)

	Locus Online: Brian Aldiss interview (excerpts)
		Aldiss has also been active in SF leadership roles for many years, as president of British SF Association (1960-1965) and World SF (1975-1979), co-founder of the Campbell Memorial Award, and other significant roles.
		He has been Guest of Honor at a number of SF cons including two Worldcons, is a yearly guest at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Florida, and has just been named an SFWA Grand Master.
		He said, ‘Come on, Brian, we must have a story of yours in there.’ So I wrote ‘Super-Toys....’ It’s about another populated world where you have to get permission to have children, so there’s a thriving industry of small android kids -- child substitutes.
	www.locusmag.com /2000/Issues/08/Aldiss.html (2322 words)

	Starship by Brian Aldiss - Book
		Aldiss is brilliant with language, characters, ideas, if cynical.
		Written in 1951, Starship is an early science fiction work by Aldiss, featuring the story of a generation ship which loses its roots, degenerating in to a primitive society in space.
		The tale is told through the perspective of a young hunter, who embarks on a journey that gradually exposes the greater mystery and hidden secrets of the ship.
	www.sffworld.com /book/3605.html (436 words)

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