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Books by Brian Aldiss
  | | Blood Read(1st Edition) The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture by Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Brian Aldiss, Vernoica Hollinger, Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1628-8, ISBN: 0-8122-1628-8 "The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect an ..." |
 | | "Radio Times" Guide to Science Fiction(1st Edition) by Kilmeny Fane-Saunders, Brian Aldiss, Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2001 by Bbc Books ISBN-13: 978-0-563-53460-0, ISBN: 0-563-53460-5 "Science Fiction has proved to big, big office through the years with movies such as Star Wars and TV shows such as Dr Who bringing the genre to mainstream audiences. The Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction is as comprehensive a tour as you could want into the realms of the fantastic. Covering movies, TV and radio just about every futuristic adventure to ever hit the screens is covered her with entries on over 1,500 movies, 300 TV shows ..." |
 | | In The Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman Stories of Science and Fantasy by Josef Nesvadba, Brian Aldiss Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1979 by New English Library ISBN-13: 978-0-450-03389-6, ISBN: 0-450-03389-9 "1st edition paperback, vg+" |
 | | Finches of Mars by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0213-4, ISBN: 1-5040-0213-X "Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in “a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery” (Booklist, starred review). Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars represents humankind’s last hope. In six tightly clustered towers on the red planet’s surface, the colonists who have escaped their dying home world ..." |
 | | Earthworks by Brian W. Aldiss Hardcover, 126 Pages, Published 1972 by New English Library Import ISBN-13: 978-0-450-01141-2, ISBN: 0-450-01141-0 "Essef - Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which J. Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong. Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending the bare, poisond renched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle's world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people stil ..." |
 | | The Invention of Happiness(1st Edition) [hc] by Brian W. Aldiss Hardcover, 105 Pages, Published 2013 by Ps Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84863-672-9, ISBN: 1-84863-672-5 "A new year dawned and I suddenly determined to challenge myself with shortage of time. In brief, I would write a short short story every day in succession. This little book contains some of the results. To be honest (generally a foolish thing for a writer to be) a short written on a Monday requires a Tuesday as well. On Tuesday, you edit, you correct, you knock out ungainly sentences, you amplify . . . for you may suddenly discover a ne ..." |
 | | Helliconia Winter(Updated) 3rd in the 'Helliconia' series of books by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1985 by Triad Grafton ISBN-13: 978-0-586-05367-6, ISBN: 0-586-05367-0 |
 | | Eighty Minute Hour, The by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 1975 by New York: Leisure Books # 237Zk 1St Printing Import ISBN-13: 978-0-330-24547-0, ISBN: 0-330-24547-3 "An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera!A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera.Quite possibly Aldiss's Brian Aldiss' highly inventive space opera is a mind-expanding range of songs and science that takes us, twisting and turning, through a cornucopia of intergalactic merriment and melodrama. Eccentric characters burst into full-throated song with each meandering plot.strangest novel, and t ..." |
 | | Walcot by Brian W. Aldiss, Howard Hughes Paperback, 534 Pages, Published 2015 by Harpercollins Publishers, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748226-9, ISBN: 0-00-748226-4 "On the glorious sands of the North Norfolk coast, Steve, the youngest member of the Fielding family, plays alone. But are these halcyon days? War is looming, and things will never be the same again." |
 | | The Complete Short Stories(1st Edition) The 1960s (Part 1) (The Brian Aldiss Collection) by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Harpervoyager ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748228-3, ISBN: 0-00-748228-0 "The first collection of Brian Aldiss' short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part one of four. 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. This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss' complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts. Taken from diverse and often rare sources, ..." |
 | | Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss 190 Pages, Published 2020 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-6404-0, ISBN: 1-5040-6404-6 "Aldiss’ world is visceral and powerful.” —Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations “Worth reading, and quite a significant contribution to the long SF history of generation ship novels.” —SF Site Praise for Brian W. Aldiss ..." |
 | | Finches of Mars by Brian W. Aldiss 202 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0589-0, ISBN: 1-5040-0589-9 "'Very strong on Matisse,' Vladimir commented. 'Yes. But I don't see any ... 'Frankly, I am homesick for such beauty,' said Vladimir. 'Can such glory ever occur ... But we had to come to Mars to meet that something.' This suggested a greater kind ..." |
 | | Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss 291 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1035-1, ISBN: 1-5040-1035-3 "The others, all but Driff, were standing now, open-mouthed and anxious. “It's lies, lies!” “No, it is true.” Then she weakened and turned to the five faces anxiously regarding her. “Isn't it true?” Driff, clutching her hurt leg, agreed heartily that it was ." |
 | | The Complete Short Stories The 1950s by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 864 Pages, Published 2014 by The Friday Project ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748208-5, ISBN: 0-00-748208-6 "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 one takes us from his very first story - A Book in Time, published in The Bookseller in 1954 and never seen again until now - right up to his establishment as a major new voice in science ficti ..." |
 | | The Malacia Tapestry(1st Edition) by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 309 Pages, Published 2014 by Drugstore Indian Press Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-84863-792-4, ISBN: 1-84863-792-6 "SYNOPSIS Jostling through the light and shadow of Malacia s streets goes a crowd of people; dukes, wealthy merchants, bankrupt families, actresses, priests, courtesans, spongers, soldiers, and down-at-heel showmen. They are seen through the eyes of Perian de Chirolo, actor and man-about-town, whose adventures take him through all strata of Malacian society and into the heart of its darkest secrets, both lay and spiritual. Episodes idyl ..." |
 | | Time Travelers(1st Edition) Fiction in the Fourth Dimension by William Gibson, J.G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Brian W. Aldiss, Ray Bradbury, Peter Haining Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Barnes & Noble Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-0914-6, ISBN: 0-7607-0914-9 "Time Travelers gathers twenty-four tales by the most recognizable names in the genre. Included is the first time-travel story ever written -- penned by American journalist Edward Page Mitchell fourteen years prior to Well's landmark novel. Here, too, is a selection by master of future history Robert A. Heinlein, who's "All You Zombies --" involes a character traveling back and forth through time on a bizarre genetic mission. Also includ ..." |
 | | Dracula Unbound(1st Edition) by Brian Wilson Aldiss Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1991 by Grafton Books. ISBN-13: 978-0-246-13773-9, ISBN: 0-246-13773-8 |
 | | Greybeard(Updated) (Roc) by Brian W. Aldiss Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by Roc ISBN-13: 978-0-14-017354-3, ISBN: 0-14-017354-4 "After the "Accident," all males on earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their 50's. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man-eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coas ..." |
 | | Science fiction art / compiled & introduced by Brian Aldiss(1st Edition) by Brian W. Aldiss, Brian Wilson Aldiss Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1975 by New English Library Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-450-02772-7, ISBN: 0-450-02772-4 "Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 128 pages; Description: 128 p. : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm. Subjects: Science fiction in art. Science fiction--Illustrations. Magazine illustration--Great Britain." |
 | | Isaac Asimov Presents The Great Science Fiction Stories #20(1st Edition) (1958) by Martin H., Poul Anderson, Brian W. Aldiss, Robert Silverberg, Robert Sheckley, Avram Davidson, C. M. Kornbluth, Cordwainer Smith, Rog Phillips, Isaac Asimov, James E. Gunn, Clifford D. Simak, Martin Harry Greenberg, Robin Hidden, Fredric Brown, Lester Del Rey, John R. Pierce, Cleve Cartmill, Leigh Brackett, Theodore Sturgeon Paperback, 351 Pages, Published 1990 by Daw Books Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-88677-405-9, ISBN: 0-88677-405-5 "A collection of some of the greatest science fiction tales features Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" series, John Brunner's "The Totally Rich," and other tales. Reprint." |
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