Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017)
Autore di La primavera di Helliconia
Sull'Autore
Brian W. Aldiss was born in Dereham, United Kingdom on August 18, 1925. In 1943, he joined the Royal Signals regiment, and saw action in Burma. After World War II, he worked as a bookseller at Oxford University. His first book, The Brightfount Diaries, was published in 1955. His first science mostra altro fiction novel, Non-Stop (Starship in the United States), was published in 1958. He wrote more than 80 books including Hothouse, Greybeard, The Helliconia Trilogy, The Squire Quartet, Frankenstein Unbound, The Malacia Tapestry, Walcot, and Mortal Morning. His short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long was the basis for the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He has received numerous awards for his work including two Hugo Awards, the Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and an OBE for services to literature. He was also an anthologist and an artist. He was the editor of 40 anthologies including Introducing SF, The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus, Space Opera, Space Odysseys, Galactic Empires, Evil Earths, and Perilous Planets. He was an abstract artist and his first solo exhibition, The Other Hemisphere, was held in Oxford in August-September 2010. He died on August 19, 2017 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Brian W. Aldiss
Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers (1975) — A cura di — 130 copie
Man in His Time [short story] 17 copie
Chroniken der Zukunft III. Die Zeitsonde. Feinde aus dem Kosmos / Kinder der Retorte. (1984) 14 copie
Four for Fantasy: A Quartet of Fantastical Stories Collected for World FantasyCon 2013 (2013) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Total Environment 11 copie
Science Fiction Blues: The Show That Brian Aldiss Took on the Road: A Selection of His Best Stories, Poetry, and… (1988) 10 copie
A Tupolev Too Far 7 copie
Three Degrees Over 7 copie
Afterward- This Year in SF 1966 7 copie
Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope 7 copie
Amen and Out [short fiction] 6 copie
A Tupolev Too Far 6 copie
Introduction to Nebula Award Stories 2 edt by Brian Aldiss — A cura di — 6 copie
Il lungo meriggio della terra 5 copie
The Man and a Man with His Mule 5 copie
Sunlight 5 copie
Better Morphosis 5 copie
The Servant Problem 5 copie
Os Últimos Dias da Terra 5 copie
Tomorrow's Yesterdays 4 copie
Let's Be Frank [short fiction] 4 copie
The eye-opener [short fiction] 4 copie
In the Arena {short story} 4 copie
North Of The Abyss [short story] 4 copie
The New Father Christmas 3 copie
Summertime Was Nearly Over 3 copie
Inteligência artificial 3 copie
The Skeleton 3 copie
Os últimos dias da Terra - 2 3 copie
Tarzan of the Alps 3 copie
Door Slams in Fourth World 3 copie
Judas Danced 3 copie
An Apollo Asteroid {short story} 2 copie
Comic Inferno {short story} 2 copie
Pipeline {short story} 2 copie
Safe! {short story} 2 copie
Cardiac Arrest [short story] 2 copie
A Taste For Dostoyevsky 2 copie
Blighted Profile [short story] 2 copie
An Age 2 copie
Gesture of farewell 2 copie
Fontein science fiction. [Dl.] 1 2 copie
Infestation 2 copie
Imperi Galattici 2 copie
Terre Pericolose 2 copie
The Small Stones Of Tu Fu 2 copie
Nataniel 2 copie
Trama estelar 2 copie
La lampada del sesso 2 copie
Sciame Stellare 2 copie
Aboard The Beatitude 2 copie
L' albero della vita: racconti 2 copie
Wrede werelden 2 copie
FRANKESTEIN INSOLITO 2 copie
Still Trajectories {short story} 2 copie
Ten-story Jigsaw 2 copie
Listen With Big Brother 2 copie
Common Clay 2 copie
עידן הסוד 2 copie
Årets bedste science fiction, 1968 — A cura di — 2 copie
The Expensive Delicate Ship 2 copie
O Verão de Helliconia - 2 2 copie
Best of Aldiss 2 copie
They Shall Inherit 2 copie
Cittadino del tramonto 2 copie
The Lieutenant 2 copie
The Heirs of Earth 2 copie
The Source [short story] 2 copie
Sonrisas de metal 2 copie
Az idő kisiklásának éjszakája 1 copia
A géngólem 1 copia
Az arénában 1 copia
A Pleasure Shared [short story] 1 copia
נחיל כוכבים 1 copia
The Lonely Habit [short story] 1 copia
A lét és a halál 1 copia
Ez is művészet 1 copia
A mi tudásunk 1 copia
A tó túlpartja 1 copia
A valószínűtlen csillag 1 copia
A vér szava 1 copia
H.A.B 1 copia
Jaj a tigrisnek 1 copia
Kék félláb 1 copia
Minden időké ő... 1 copia
Mondjátok el nekik 1 copia
Neanderbolygó 1 copia
Urbanisztika 1 copia
Vetélkedő 1 copia
Világ minden könnye 1 copia
Sera 1 copia
Galactic empress volume one 1 copia
The dead immortal 1 copia
Carrion Country [short story] 1 copia
Strange in a familiar way 1 copia
Multi-value motorway 1 copia
A difficult age 1 copia
Song of the Silencer 1 copia
The flowers of the forest 1 copia
With Esmond in mind 1 copia
Tradesmen's exit 1 copia
Breathing space 1 copia
A book in tme 1 copia
Shape of Things to come, The 1 copia
Yet More Penguin Science Fiction 1 copia
More Penguin Science Fiction 1 copia
Ahead [short story] 1 copia
Pale Shadow of Science 1 copia
O Verão de Helliconta - 2 1 copia
Gråskägg 1 copia
Into the Tunnel! {short story} 1 copia
Last Orders {short story} 1 copia
Non Stop - Daisy CD Audiobook 1 copia
Fourth Factor 1 copia
אל האינסוף 1 copia
Kaland a végeken 1 copia
Indifference 1 copia
Cuando la Tierra esté muerta 1 copia
Equator [novella] 1 copia
the First-Borne 1 copia
Journey To The Heartland 1 copia
Marte, pianeta libero 1 copia
Confluence Revisited 1 copia
Supertoys Trilogy 1 copia
שנים באפלה 1 copia
The Alteration 1 copia
En la arena 1 copia
Un miliardo di anni 1 copia
1979 1 copia
נחיל כוכבים 1 copia
Avventure tra i mondi 1 copia
Gigamesh 39 1 copia
Confluence [anthology] 1 copia
Il mio mondo bruciato 1 copia
End Game 1 copia
The God Who Slept With Women 1 copia
Scarfe's World 1 copia
Ten Billion Of Them 1 copia
The Firmament Theorem 1 copia
The Hibernators 1 copia
SET OF 3 "BRIAN W. ALDISS" BOOKS: Cryptozoic! / Starship (aka Non-Stop) / Neanderthal Planet (1970) 1 copia
Best SF stories 1 copia
A Private Whale 1 copia
Nonstop 1 copia
Verano 1 copia
Invierno 1 copia
Imperios galácticos IV 1 copia
Imperios galácticos 1 copia
Imperios galácticos II 1 copia
Nr. 315. Feind aus dem Kosmos 1 copia
Swarm 1 copia
Hand Reared Boy, The 1 copia
Three's A Cloud 1 copia
Tiger in the Night 1 copia
Hellicona Summer 1 copia
Brian Aldiss's Evil Earth 1 copia
The Canopy Of Time 1 copia
Oh, for a Closer Brush with God 1 copia
Bury My Heart At W. H. Smith’s 1 copia
The Detached Retina 1 copia
Barbagrís 1 copia
(Nebulae 84) Espacio y tiempo 1 copia
The Ergot Show [short fiction] 1 copia
Dark Light-Years, The 1 copia
A Longa Tarde da Terra Livro 1 1 copia
Frankenstein Libertado Livro 1 1 copia
Os Negros Anos Luz Livro 1 1 copia
De verrijzenis van Frankenstein 1 copia
The O in José 1 copia
Einleitung (Titan 20) 1 copia
אל האינסוף 1 copia
Opere correlate
Dangerous Visions — Collaboratore — 1,919 copie
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1982) — Collaboratore — 242 copie
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
Creatures from Beyond: Nine Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1975) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume (1958) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 3rd Annual Volume (1958) — Collaboratore — 61 copie
The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
Twenty Houses of the Zodiac: Anthology of International Science Fiction (1979) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World (2015) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1982) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. I (1989) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1991, Vol. 80, No. 6 (1991) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXVIII, No. 4 (December 1966) (1966) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 2, No. 2 [March-April 1978] (1978) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 13 copie
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 5 [May 1986] (1986) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 4 [April 1983] (1983) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1965, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1965) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Das Science Fiction Jahr 1994. Ein Jahrbuch für den Science Fiction Leser (1994) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Autore — 10 copie
Flotsam Fantasique The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 (2013) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Robotics Through Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short Stories (2018) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia: The Collected Poems of Makhtumkuli: Eighteenth Century Poet-Hero of… (1995) — Versifier, alcune edizioni — 3 copie
New Worlds Science Fiction 75, September 1958 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
New Worlds Science Fiction 51, September 1956 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
S-Fマガジン 1987年 07月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1983年 06月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
SF宝石 1979年 08月号(創刊号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1986年 03月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1982年 10月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
SFマガジン 2017年 12 月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1982年 12月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
SFファンタジイ大全集 (別冊奇想天外 10) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Science Fantasy 62, December 1963 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 2000年 02月号 [雑誌] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1981年 07月 第17号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1992年 06月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1978年 10月臨時増刊号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1968年 01月号(通巻103号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1984年 10月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
SFの評論大全集 (別冊奇想天外 4) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1978年 12月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1973年 11月 第8号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Aldiss, Brian Wilson
- Altri nomi
- Aldiss, Brian
Shackleton, C.C.
Cracken, Jael
Runciman, John
אולדיס, בריאן ווילסון - Data di nascita
- 1925-08-18
- Data di morte
- 2017-08-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- East Dereham, Norfolk, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Luogo di morte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- West Buckland School
Framlingham College, Suffolk, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Relazioni
- Aldiss, Margaret (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- Birmingham Science Fiction Group (Co-President)
H. G. Wells Society (Vice President)
British Science Fiction Association
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
British Army (Royal Signals regiment) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Officer, Order of the British Empire (2005)
Permanent Special Guest, International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts [ICFA]
Honorary Doctorate (University of Liverpool | 2008)
Ditmar Award (1969)
SFRA Pilgrim Award (1978)
IAFA Distinguished Scholarship (1986) (mostra tutto 13)
Prix Utopia (1999)
SFWA Grand Master (2000)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall Of Fame (2004)
First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (2004)
Hugo Awards (1962, 1987)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1990)
Nebula Award (1965) - Breve biografia
- Brian Aldiss is an English author of general fiction and science fiction, greatly influenced by H G Wells. He saw action in Burma during WWII, which influenced several of his books. After the war he became a bookseller in Oxford and wrote short pieces for science fiction magazines and a bookseller trade journal. His first book, about a sales assistant in a bookshop, was published in 1955. He has also edited a number of anthologies.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do NOT combine this author page with any author page that includes Aldiss and another person. ONE author or combination of authors per page, please!
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Discussioni
Brian Aldiss, 1925-2017 in Science Fiction Fans (Settembre 2017)
Trilogy? Parasite/global weather changes cause humans to revert to caveman status every few 1000 yrs in Name that Book (Dicembre 2013)
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
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- Lingue
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