Brian W. Aldiss

Der englische Autor Brian W. Aldiss galt als hoch angesehener Schriftsteller, der vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Romane und -Kurzgeschichten bekannt ist. Geboren am 18. August 1925 entwickelte Aldiss bereits in seiner Kindheit eine Leidenschaft fürs Lesen, wobei er besonders die Werke von H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein und Philip K. Dick schätzte. Seine Militärzeit bei den Royal Signals während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, in der er aktiven Dienst leistete, bereicherte ihn um eine Fülle von Erfahrungen, die sein späteres Schreiben prägen sollten. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er als Buchhändler, was ihm nicht nur ermöglichte, seiner Leselust weiter nachzugehen, sondern auch Gelegenheit bot, Kurzgeschichten für eine Fachzeitschrift zu verfassen. Dieses Schreiben erregte die Aufmerksamkeit eines Lektors bei Faber und Faber, was den Beginn seiner Karriere als Berufsschriftsteller einläutete.

Im Laufe seiner Karriere erhielt Aldiss zahlreiche Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen für sein Werk. 1982 ernannte ihn die Science Fiction Writers of America zum Grand Master, und 1999 wurde er in die Science Fiction Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Seine Schriften brachten ihm zwei Hugo Awards, einen Nebula Award und einen John W. Campbell Memorial Award ein. Diese prestigeträchtigen Anerkennungen unterstreichen Aldiss' innovative literarische Techniken, evokative Handlungen und unwiderstehliche Charaktere.

Neben seiner Science-Fiction-Produktion veröffentlichte Aldiss auch unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen, wie Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant und "Doc" Peristyle. Er war zweimal verheiratet, erst mit Olive Fortesque von 1948 bis 1965, dann mit Margaret Manson von 1965 bis 1997. Aldiss verstarb am 19. August 2017, nur einen Tag nachdem er mit seiner Familie und engen Freunden seinen 92. Geburtstag gefeiert hatte. Sein Vermächtnis als Science-Fiction-Autor lebt weiter und inspiriert nach wie vor neue Generationen von Autoren und Lesern.
Horatio Stubbs Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Hand-Reared Boy 1970
2 A Soldier Erect 1971
3 A Rude Awakening 1978
The Squire Quartet Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Life in the West 1980
2 Forgotten Life 1988
3 Remembrance Day 1993
4 Somewhere East of Life 1994
Helliconia Books (with Maxim Jakubowski)
# Titel Jahr
1 Helliconia Spring 1982
2 Helliconia Summer 1983
3 Helliconia Winter 1985
Einzelromane
# Titel Jahr
1 Starswarm 1954
2 The Brightfount Diaries 1955
3 Non-Stop / Starship 1958
4 Vanguard From Alpha 1959
5 Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter 1960
6 Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth 1961
7 The Male Response 1961
8 The Primal Urge 1961
9 Dark Light Years 1964
10 Greybeard 1964
11 Earthworks 1965
12 Cryptozoic! / An Age 1967
13 Report on Probability A 1968
14 Barefoot in the Head 1969
15 Neanderthal Planet 1969
16 Frankenstein Unbound 1973
17 The Eighty-Minute Hour 1974
18 Enemies of the System 1978
19 Moreau's Other Island 1980
20 An Island Called Moreau 1980
21 Tales from the Planet Earth 1986
22 The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical 1987
23 Ruins 1988
24 Sex and the Black Machine 1988
25 Dracula Unbound 1990
26 White Mars 1999
27 The Cretan Teat 2001
28 Super State 2002
29 Affairs At Hampden Ferrers 2004
30 Jocasta 2005
31 Sanity and the Lady 2005
32 Harm 2007
33 Walcot 2009
34 Finches of Mars 2012
35 Comfort Zone 2013
36 The Malacia Tapestry 2014
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen
# Titel Jahr
1 Space, Time and Nathaniel 1957
2 No Time Like Tomorrow 1959
3 Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time 1959
4 The Airs of Earth 1963
5 The Saliva Tree 1966
6 Who Can Replace a Man? 1966
7 Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories 1969
8 The Moment of Eclipse 1970
9 Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss 1972
10 Equator 1973
11 Brothers of the Head 1977
12 Last Orders 1977
13 Pile 1979
14 New Arrivals, Old Encounters 1979
15 Foreign Bodies 1981
16 Farewell to a Child 1982
17 Seasons in Flight 1984
18 A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories 1986
19 The Magic of the Past 1987
20 Science Fiction Blues 1988
21 Man in His Time 1989
22 At the Caligula Hotel 1995
23 The Secret of This Book / Common Clay 1995
24 The God Who Slept With Women 1995
25 Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001
26 The Dark Sun Rises 2002
27 Cultural Breaks 2005
28 A Prehistory of Mind 2008
29 Mortal Morning 2011
30 The Invention of Happiness 2013
31 Songs from the Steppes 2014
32 The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s 2015
33 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) 2015
34 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) 2015
Best SF Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 1969
2 Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 1970
3 Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 1971
4 Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 1972
5 Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 1976
Sachbücher
# Titel Jahr
1 The Shape of Further Things 1970
2 Billion Year Spree 1973
3 Science Fiction Art 1975
4 This World and Nearer Ones 1979
5 Pale Shadow of Science 1986
6 Trillion Year Spree 1986
7 And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography 1986
8 The Detached Retina 1988
9 Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's 1990
10 Home Life With Cats 1992
11 When The Feast Is Finished 1994
12 The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman 1998
13 Art After Apogee 2000
14 Plutonian Monologue 2000
15 The Starry Messenger 2006
16 An Exile on Planet Earth 2012
17 The Twinkling of an Eye 2015
18 And the Lurid Glare of the Comet 2021
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
# Titel Jahr
1 A Chinese Perspective 2000
2 A New (Governmental) Father Christmas 2002
Andromeda Books (with George R.R. Martin, with Harlan Ellison, with Robert Holdstock, with Michael G. Coney, with Christopher Priest, with Naomi Mitchison, with Peter Weston, with Terry Greenhough, with Andrew M. Stephenson)
# Titel Jahr
1 Andromeda 2 1977
2 Andromeda 3 1978
Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books (with Howard Waldrop, with Felix C. Gotschalk, with Lisa Tuttle, with Lucius Shepard, with Dan Simmons, with Garry Douglas Kilworth, with Jonathan Carroll, with Paul Di Filippo, with Kate Wilhelm, with Richard Kadrey, with Pat Murphy, with Marta Randall, with John Clute, with David S. Garnett)
# Titel Jahr
1 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988
2 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two 1989
3 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three 1990
Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction 1980
2 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
3 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
4 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
5 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
6 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
7 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite 1993
8 Isaac Asimov's War 1993
9 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams 1994
10 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep 1995
11 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts 1995
12 Isaac Asimov's Christmas 1997
13 Isaac Asimov's Camelot 1998
14 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
15 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
16 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
17 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
18 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
19 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001
Brian W. Aldiss Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 Penguin Science Fiction 1961
2 Best Fantasy Stories 1962
3 More Penguin Science Fiction 1963
4 The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965
5 Tales of Unease 1966
6 Nebula Award Stories #2 1966
7 Introducing Science Fiction 1967
8 Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus 1968
9 Backdrop of Stars 1968
10 The Inner Landscape 1969
11 Dangerous Visions 1 1969
12 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970
13 On Our Way to the Future 1970
14 Nova 1 1970
15 SF Authors' Choice 2 1970
16 Science Against Man 1970
17 The Astounding Analog Reader 1972
18 Alpha 3 1972
19 The 6th Annual Best SF 72 1973
20 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973
21 Factions 1974
22 Space Odysseys 1974
23 Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974
24 Decade: The 1940's 1975
25 New Worlds 6 1975
26 Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction 1975
27 New Worlds Nine 1975
28 New Writings in SF 27 1975
29 Evil Earths 1975
30 Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories 1975
31 Hell's Cartographers 1975
32 Antigrav 1975
33 Andromeda 1 1976
34 Decade: The 1950s 1976
35 Galactic Empires 2 1976
36 Beyond Tomorrow 1976
37 Decade: The 1960s 1977
38 Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978 1977
39 Perilous Planets 1978
40 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980
41 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction 1980
42 Winter's Tales 26 1981
43 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
44 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
45 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
46 The Book of Mini-Sagas 1985
47 Tales From the Forbidden Planet 1987
48 The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988
49 Gaslight & Ghosts 1988
50 The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1988
51 The Book of Mini-Sagas 2 1988
52 The Drabble Project 1988
53 Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold 1988
54 Dark Fantasies 1989
55 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 1989
56 The Ultimate Frankenstein 1991
57 Now We Are Sick 1991
58 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
59 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
60 Dante's Disciples 1991
61 The Amis Story Anthology 1992
62 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection 1993
63 Invaders! 1993
64 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite 1993
65 Isaac Asimov's War 1993
66 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams 1994
67 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep 1995
68 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts 1995
69 New Worlds 1 1996
70 New Worlds No. 221 1996
71 Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 1997
72 Isaac Asimov's Christmas 1997
73 Isaac Asimov's Camelot 1998
74 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
75 Mini Sagas 1999 1999
76 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
77 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
78 Year's Best SF 5 2000
79 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
80 Nebula Awards 35 (2001) 2001
81 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
82 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001
83 DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction 2002
84 The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002
85 Mini-Sagas 2002
86 DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002
87 Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006
88 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
89 The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011 2010
90 Catastrophia 2010
91 xo Orpheus 2013
92 Four For Fantasy 2013
93 Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013