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Comfort Zone by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Fiction
A new novel from one of Britain's best-loved writer, Brian Aldiss OBE, set in and around his home-town of Oxford. Set in contemporary Oxford, this incisive novel charts the breakdown of a community. A new mosque is to be built - on the site of a derelict pub - and gradually, half-hidden prejudices begin ...Show more
Eighty-Minute Hour by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss's strangest novel, and that is saying something.
Enemies of the System by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
An electrifying journey one millions years into the future: meet the Utopian race of Homo Uniformis - men logical, unemotional, and totally alike...In the future, mankind's physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its m ...Show more
Finches of Mars by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Science Fiction
'My final Science Fiction novel' - Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious careers in the genres. Set on the Red Planet, it follows the stories of a group of colonists and the prob ...Show more
Finches of Mars by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Fiction
'My final Science Fiction novel' - Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious careers in the genre. Set on the Red Planet, it follows a group of colonists and the problems they have i ...Show more
Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.
Helliconia: "Hellonica Spring", "Helliconia Summer", "Helliconia Winter" by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the spring, flourish in the summer & then die in the brutal winters. The inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience ...Show more
Helliconia Spring by Brian W Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Helliconia Trilogy
Originally published: London: Cape, 1982.
Interpreter by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Fantasy
Earthman Gary Towler is a pariah. He must interpret the will of the Nuls who rule his planet, Earth, and he's running out of time to overthrow their plans...The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known universe is dominated by the Nuls, a huge, three-armed race, almost as old as time itsel ...Show more
Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, hermap ...Show more
Pale Shadow of Science by Brian W. Aldiss
Category: Science Fiction
Two of Aldiss' essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume. In this warm, chatty, opinionated collection of essays, Brian Aldiss tells the reader a bit about his youth, holds forth on the position of science fiction within the literary and scientific worlds and reveals some of the processes at wo ...Show more
Philosophy of Language: a contemporary introduction by Aldiss Brian W
Category: Science Fiction