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Publication Order of Horatio Stubbs Books

The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Soldier Erect (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Rude Awakening (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of The Squire Quartet Books

Life in the West (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon
Forgotten Life (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Remembrance Day (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Somewhere East of Life (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Helliconia Books

with Maxim Jakubowski
Helliconia Spring (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon
Helliconia Summer (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon
Helliconia Winter (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Starswarm (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Brightfount Diaries (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon
Non-Stop / Starship (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon
Vanguard From Alpha (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Male Response (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Primal Urge (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dark Light Years (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon
Greybeard (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon
Earthworks (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cryptozoic! / An Age (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon
Report on Probability A (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon
Barefoot in the Head (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Neanderthal Planet (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Frankenstein Unbound (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Eighty-Minute Hour (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon
Enemies of the System (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon
Moreau's Other Island (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon
An Island Called Moreau (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tales from the Planet Earth (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ruins (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sex and the Black Machine (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dracula Unbound (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon
White Mars (With: Roger Penrose) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cretan Teat (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
Super State (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Affairs At Hampden Ferrers (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
Jocasta (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sanity and the Lady (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Harm (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Walcot (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Finches of Mars (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Comfort Zone (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Malacia Tapestry (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon
No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Airs of Earth (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Saliva Tree (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon
Who Can Replace a Man? (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon
Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Moment of Eclipse (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
Equator (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brothers of the Head (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon
Last Orders (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pile (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon
Foreign Bodies (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon
Farewell to a Child (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon
Seasons in Flight (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Magic of the Past (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon
Science Fiction Blues (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Man in His Time (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
At the Caligula Hotel (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Secret of This Book / Common Clay (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The God Who Slept With Women (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Dark Sun Rises (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cultural Breaks (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Prehistory of Mind (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mortal Morning (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Invention of Happiness (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Songs from the Steppes (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Best SF Anthologies

Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Robert Sheckley,Harry Harrison) (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Harry Harrison) (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (With: Harry Harrison) (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (With: Harry Harrison) (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (With: Harry Harrison) (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Shape of Further Things (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
Billion Year Spree (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon
Science Fiction Art (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
This World and Nearer Ones (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pale Shadow of Science (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trillion Year Spree (With: David Wingrove) (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Detached Retina (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon
Home Life With Cats (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
When The Feast Is Finished (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Art After Apogee (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Plutonian Monologue (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Starry Messenger (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
An Exile on Planet Earth (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Twinkling of an Eye (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

A Chinese Perspective (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
A New (Governmental) Father Christmas (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Andromeda Books

with George R.R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Holdstock, Michael G. Coney, Naomi Mitchison, Peter Weston
Andromeda 2 (By: Peter Weston) (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon
Andromeda 3 (By: Gino d'Achille,Peter Weston) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books

with Howard Waldrop, Felix C. Gotschalk, Lisa Tuttle, Lucius Shepard, Dan Simmons, Jonathan Carroll, Paul Di Filippo, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Kadrey, Marta Randall, John Clute, David S. Garnett
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (By: David S. Garnett) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three (By: David S. Garnett) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books

Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth) (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz) (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn) (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By: Shawna McCarthy) (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Aliens (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Robots (By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's War (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Christmas (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Camelot (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Detectives (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Solar System (By: Gardner Dozois) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Father Day (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
Isaac Asimov's Halloween (By: Isaac Asimov) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Anthologies

Penguin Science Fiction(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best Fantasy Stories(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon
More Penguin Science Fiction(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Eighth Galaxy Reader(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tales of Unease(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nebula Award Stories #2(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon
Introducing Science Fiction(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon
Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon
Backdrop of Stars(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Inner Landscape(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dangerous Visions 1(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
On Our Way to the Future(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nova 1(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
SF Authors' Choice 2(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
Science Against Man(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Astounding Analog Reader(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
This Side of Infinity(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
Alpha 3(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
The 6th Annual Best SF 72(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon
Factions(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon
Space Odysseys(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon
Decade: The 1940's(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Worlds Nine(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Writings in SF 27(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Evil Earths(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hell's Cartographers(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Worlds 6(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Antigrav(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon
Andromeda 1(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon
Decade: The 1950s(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon
Galactic Empires 2(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beyond Tomorrow(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon
Decade: The 1960s(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon
Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon
Perilous Planets(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon
Winter's Tales 26(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Book of Mini-Sagas(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tales From the Forbidden Planet(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Gaslight & Ghosts(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Book of Mini-Sagas 2(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Drabble Project(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dark Fantasies(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Ultimate Frankenstein(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Now We Are Sick(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dante's Disciples(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Amis Story Anthology(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Invaders!(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Worlds 1(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Worlds No. 221(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mini Sagas 1999(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Year's Best SF 5(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nebula Awards 35 (2001)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mini-Sagas(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Catastrophia(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
xo Orpheus(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Four For Fantasy(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon

Brian Wilson Aldiss is basically an English writer who was born on the 18th of august 1925. He is an anthology editor and an English writer who is best known for his short stories and science fiction novels. He was married to Margaret Manson from 1965 to 1997 and Olive Fortesque from 1948 to 1965

His Early Life and Career

Brian Aldiss father ran a store department that had been established by his grandfather; his whole family lived above that store. He commenced writing stories at the tender age of 3 years. His own mother used to bind the rolls on where he had written the stories before putting them on a shelf.

When Aldiss got to the age of 6 years, he was sent to a boarding school in Devon (West Buck-land School). He later on studied at the famous Framingham College. He enrolled in the Royal Signals in 1943 during the 2nd world war. His experience in the army greatly inspired him to write his 2nd and 3rd books’ Soldier Erect’ and A Rude Awakening’ respectively

The Post -War Era

When the war subsided, he worked at Oxford as a bookseller. He wrote numerous short-pieces for booksellers; this attracted Charles Monteith’s attention who was an editor at Faber and Faber’ who were renowned British Publishers. As a result Aldiss’ first book that was known as The Bright Font Diaries was published- It was a 200-page novel that was in a diary form that talked about the life’s and times of a sales assistant who used to work inside a bookshop. At this period he also began writing science fictions for several magazines. Several of Brian Aldiss’ books appeared in three monthly- issues of The New Worlds’-This was an important magazine that was edited by Carnell

In the year 1954, The Observer Newspaper’ ran several competitions for short stories. Aldiss’ story Not for an Age’ was voted as the third best story by readers in its category.

His accolades

Although The Bright Fount Diaries’ experienced some success, Aldiss made a confession that he always enjoyed writing science fiction stories. This delighted publishers who had wide market bases of millions of science-fiction fans in respectable places. Brian Aldiss made his way into writers’ hall of fame when his fiction books got published. His novel was a collection of stories entitled Time and Nathaniel’ as well as Space; these books were published by Faber in 1957. At this time, the income that he got from writing had matched the wages that he used to get paid in the bookshop. He therefore made a decision of becoming a full-time writer

Aldiss led the park when the vote for the most- promising author commenced in 1958 at the World-Science-Fiction-Convention. He was elected as President of the British- Science and Fiction- Association in the year 1960. He served as the Literary Editor of the famous Oxford Mail Newspaper between 1958 and 1969. In 1964, his longtime collaborator Harry Harrison began the 1st ever science journal criticism by the name Science Fiction Horizons’. During its time the Science Fiction Horizons’ published reviews and articles by authors like James Blish.

Brian Aldiss was also a Great Anthologist

Besides doing his own writings, Brian Aldiss was also a great anthologist. He wrote several stories that typified several science fiction themes. He also wrote the Best Fantasy Stories’. In 1961, he wrote anthologies concerning reprinted short science fictions for British publishers Penguin Books’. His stint here was remarkably successful because his works underwent several reprints. He followed up with two other anthology stories i.e. More Penguin Science Fiction in 1963 and Yet More penguin Science Fiction’ in 1964. These anthologies were hugely successful as compared to the first ones. All the three were published together in The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus’ of 1973. In mid 1970’s , he produced numerous large collections of classic-grand scale fictions under titles’ Space Opera’ in 1974, Space Odysseys in 1975, Galactic Empires and Evil Earths in 1976, as well as Perilous Planets in 1978- they were all quite successful. At round this time also, he edited a voluminous Science Fiction Art in 1975; it had a wide selection of artworks that included Pulps and Magazines

The planetary probes

In the 1960’s and 1970’s, several researches indicated that the Venus wasn’t completely a hot and tropical jungle as mostly depicted in science fictions. He together with Harry Harrison edited an anthology referred to as Farewell Fantastic Venus’ these were reprinted stories that were based on the pre-probe ideas of the Venus. Together with Harrison, he also wrote a series of numerous anthologies that included The Year’s best Science Fiction’ from 1968 to 1976

He also invented a short story known as the Minisaga’. The daily telegraph ran competitions for the best Minisaga then. Aldiss was privileged to be the judge during those years. He edited several anthologies about several Minisagas in later years

His life in the former Soviet Union

He traveled to the Yugoslavia where he encountered Yugoslav fans in Slovenia and Ljubljana. He published a travel-book about Yugoslavia that was entitled Cities and Stones’. That was his only assignment in that whole genre. He also published alternative fantasy stories that included The Story of The Doomed King’ in 1968. This book talked about Serbian kings who were in their middle ages. He also wrote a novel known as The Malacia Tapestry that was about alternative Dalmatia

Brian Aldiss was a Great Artist as well

Apart from enjoying success as a prolific writer, Brian Aldiss was an accomplished artist. His solo exhibition by the name The Other Hemisphere’ was showcased in oxford between August to September 2010. The Metropolis’ was later released as an Art Fine Print that had a limited edition

Honors and awards

In 1990, he was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Society that deals with Literature. He was also a Permanent Special Guest of the ICFA i.e. the International Conference of the Fantastic in Arts from 1989 to 2008. He was also privileged to be The Chief Guest at the Conventions that were held from 1986 to 1999. His name was inducted in Fantasy and Science Fictions Hall of Fame in 2004. Hew also got a title of the OBE i.e. Order of British Empire for his services in the field of literature. He featured on Desert Island Discs in 2007. His seat is also reserved at The Council of Societies that Deal with Writers

His Role in Movies

He has also played important roles in movies like The Brother of the Head’, The Frankenstein Unbound’ and The Artificial Intelligence

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