Brian Aldiss
Brian W. Aldiss (1925 - 2017) was a writer of considerable literary talent, famous for his SF, his poetry and for award-winning SF anthologies. Aldiss was heavily involved in the development of SF, especially in the UK, holding positions as vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society and (along with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. He received many awards in his writing career and was a key figure in the rise of the SF 'new wave' in the 1960's.
Major SF Awards Won
1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction - The Long Afternoon of Earth (variant of Hothouse)
1966 Nebula Award for Best Novella - The Saliva Tree
1969 Ditmar Award for Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction
1971 BSFA Award for Best Novel - The Moment of Eclipse
1973 BSFA Special Award - Billion Year Spree
1982 BSFA Award for Best Novel - Helliconia Spring
1983 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - Helliconia Spring
1985 BSFA Award for Best Novel - Helliconia Winter
1987 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book - Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
1990 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2000 Nebula SFWA Grand Master Award
2004 First Fandom Hall of Fame Award
2005 Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature
2007 BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958 - Non-Stop
2008 Honorary Doctorate - University of Liverpool
2013 World Fantasy Convention Award
Bibliography
SF Novels
Non-Stop (1958) - great novel set on a generational starship
The Interpreter (1960) - Alternative title: Bow Down to Nul
The Primal Urge (1961)
Hothouse (1962) - magnificent novel; part SF, part fantasy on a far-future Earth
Greybeard (1964) - terrific dystopian novel in which children cannot be born
The Dark Light Years (1964) - e
njoyable short novel about ugly aliens
Earthworks (1965)
An Age (1967)
Report on Probability A (1968)
Barefoot in the Head (1969)
Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
The Eighty Minute Hour (1974)
The Malacia Tapestry (1976)
Brothers of the Head (1977)
Enemies of the System (1978)
Moreau's Other Island (1980)
Helliconia Spring (1982) - first book in Aldiss' great SF trilogy
Helliconia Summer (1983) - continuing Helliconia trilogy
Helliconia Winter (1985) - Helliconia concludes
The Year Before Yesterday (1987)
Dracula Unbound (1990)
White Mars (1999) - with Roger Penrose
Super-State (2002)
Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004)
Sanity and the Lady (2005)
Jocasta (2006)
HARM (2007)
Walcot (2010)
Finches of Mars (2012) - Aldiss' last SF novel
Non-Genre Novels
The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
The Male Response (1961)
The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) - Horatio Stubbs saga
A Soldier Erect (1971) - Horatio Stubbs saga
A Rude Awakening (1978) - Horatio Stubbs saga
Life in the West (1980) - first in Squire Quartet series
Ruins (1987) - chapbook
Forgotten Life (1988) - second in Squire Quartet series
Remembrance Day (1993) - third in Squire Quartet series
Somewhere East of Life (1994) - fourth in Squire Quartet series
The Cretan Teat (2002)
Comfort Zone (2013)
Anthologies and Non-Fiction SF Books
Best SF: Series (Ed. with Harry Harrison) - ran from 1967 through to Best SF: 1975
Decade: The 1940's (Ed. with Harry Harrison) - also Decade: The 1950's and 1960's
Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) - great anthology
The Shape of Further Things (1970) - non-fiction
Billion Year Spree (1973) - non-fiction; history of SF
SF Horizons (1975) - non-fiction, with Harry Harrison
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986) - with David Wingrove