New Releases by Brian W. Aldiss

A classic collection of twelve exciting science fiction stories from the Hugo Award–winning author of Non-Stop and Hothouse. “Brian Aldiss is a master of the form.” —The Guardian Prepare yourself for an out-of-this-world journey through time and space, in fantastic tales that skirt reality, with Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss at the helm . . . A one-armed mutant travels back in time on a deadly mission. A team of scientists fears what comes next when they land on a peaceful planet littered with alien corpses. Beings from the future need help from the past. A man is forced to relive one meaningless day over and over before a strange audience. A jaded sportsman gets more than he bargained for on his latest big game hunt. A governor is eager to rebuild a war-torn planet but may not be prepared for the cost . . . Originally published in 1959, No Time Like Tomorrow showcases the skills of a gifted author at the dawn of his career.

Twelve science fiction tales collected from the prolific career of the Hugo Award–winning author of the Helliconia trilogy. “Brian Aldiss is a master of the form.” —The Guardian Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Collection In this dynamic collection, Science Fiction Grandmaster Brian W. Aldiss bridges fantasy and reality as he offers up some remarkable tales sure to enthrall fans both old and new . . . A mobile cinema breaks down in Patagonia and transforms a local family’s life forever. An enormous head appears in the sky, forcing civilization to ponder its significance. A train passenger struggles to read his book while a fellow traveler interrupts him with a tale stranger than fiction. A boy discovers what happens when he doesn’t hibernate for winter like the rest of humanity. A man captures everything he says on a digital recorder as an exercise in personal humility. An English teashop awaits you at the end of civilization . . . Aldiss came to prominence during the New Wave period of science fiction, known for experiments with form and content. His refusal to confine himself to any one style and his interest in a wide variety of subjects earned him praise in the St. James Guide to Science Fiction as “the most significant English writer of science fiction since H. G. Wells.” First published in 2005, Cultural Breaks spans four decades of Aldiss’s long and distinguished career, and makes it clear that he never stopped exploring.

A retrospective of classic science fiction tales from the first decade in the long-running career of the Hugo Award–winning author of Non-Stop. “A writer of imagination and power.” —Frederick Pohl Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss had a career spanning sixty years. Although he is a well-known author of the 1960s and ’70s British New Wave style of science fiction, Aldiss’s career as a science fiction writer began in the 1950s. The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s offers the full catalog of Aldiss’s stories from his first decade as an author. This volume starts off with his first professional sale, “A Book in Time”—about a bookseller chasing a thief one hundred years into the future—and finishes off with a group of strangers forming a peculiar bond in “Three’s a Cloud.” By the end of the decade, Aldiss had established himself as a major new voice in science fiction. Together the fifty-eight stories in this retrospective collection offer a look at the burgeoning writer before he became a literary legend.

The entire catalog of the Hugo Award–winning author’s science fiction stories from the 1960s: all four volumes in one book. Featuring “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the basis of the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. “One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced.” —Iain M. Banks Hailed by the Guardian as “a master of the form,” Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss came into his own as an author in the early 1960s. He created enough short fiction over the course of one decade to fill four volumes. This edition of The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s combines all four into one complete collection. The stories herein, gathered from diverse and often rare sources, showcase how Aldiss became one of Great Britain’s most beloved authors, and how his work exemplifies the New Wave style. He was constantly experimenting with form and content and exploring new ideas. In this collection, you will meet astronauts approaching a star-swallowing vortex, a mother and son captured by aliens and taken to a world where time runs backward, a robot who commits suicide, and a unique little boy who is closer to his teddy bear than his own mother. The scope of Aldiss’s imagination and his gifted prose are sure to challenge and delight readers both old and new. This special short story collection is a must-have for Aldiss fans, as well as an exciting introduction to the work of a true master.

Twenty-two classic science fiction stories spanning the first three decades of the Science Fiction Grand Master’s career. Features “Super-Toys Last All Summer,” the short story that inspired the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. “Britain’s most versatile and durable and consistently most interesting science-fiction writer presents his own personal ‘best of’: 22 splendid tales. . . . To Aldiss, the human dimension has always been more important than hardware or fireworks—which is why his best stories have a timeless quality weaving intelligence, emotion, and inventiveness.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Brian W. Aldiss was a science fiction author “in competition with no one but himself” (The New York TimesBook Review). In this collection he shows why, offering up twenty-two stories from the first three decades of his career, encompassing a stunning range of ideas, moods, and styles. In the title story we find a man, recently back from an expedition in space, who lives 3.3077 minutes in the future. A meteor shakes things up in a quiet English town in “The Saliva Tree,” an homage to H. G. Wells, and which earned Aldiss the Nebula Award in 1965. A giant lizard-like alien comes to Earth in “Heresies of the Huge God,” and while some believe it is a monster, others worship it. A mother tries to connect with her son through the help of a robot intermediary in “Super-Toys Last All Summer.” Unhappy with the state of his life, a man ventures back in time to hunt dinosaurs in “Poor Little Warrior!” Robots have an existential crisis in “Who Can Replace a Man?” and men travel to Mars to take a picture of the planet’s tallest volcano in “The Difficulties in Photographing Nix Olympica.” Although the stories in this collection were originally published in the 1950s,’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, they remain just as gripping today. Each conveys a fascinating idea for readers to ponder, and together, they make a perfect introduction to one of British science fiction’s greatest authors.

Travel through time and space withfourteen remarkable science fiction stories from the early career of an award-winning Grand Master of the genre. “The stories in this collection are some of Aldiss’ earliest stories and it’s amazing how little they have lost through the years. . . . Well worth picking up.” —Science Fiction Book Reviews A father communicates with his unborn son to warn him of impending dangers . . . On the fringes of a galaxy waits a machine inhabited by a terrifying being with one mission: to destroy a planet in our solar system . . . A man is condemned to live a routine from which he cannot deviate, all before a live audience who eerily find humor in the strangest of his actions . . . A time traveler is recruited to voyage many thousands of years into the future to rescue mutated beings known as “the Failed Men” by digging them up from their graves . . . These stories and more await readers in Space, Time, and Nathaniel. Originally published in 1957, this collection marked Brian W. Aldiss’s entry into science fiction. He would become a pioneer in the genre’s British New Wave style with experimental tales such as these, exploring the vastness of outer space and the unknown realms of human nature.

Twelve exciting science fiction stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Helliconia trilogy, Hothouse, and Non-Stop. “Aldiss offers up tales of humanity’s possible futures, in visions ranging from apocalyptic to comic. . . . Quite stunning. . . . Overall, the book demonstrates Aldiss had more range as a storyteller than many of the field’s popular practitioners at the time.” —Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews There is much to be learned through travel. In New Arrivals, Old Encounters,Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss takes readers on adventures to fantastical new worlds. Here are twelve tales that provide stunning vantage points from which to view the shadowy realms of human nature . . . An idyllic planet is visited by humans who play terrible music in the title story. A time traveler forges a friendship with an ancient Chinese poet in “The Small Stones of Tu Fu.” “Amen and Out” tells of a machine-dominated world where everyone prays to talking shrines, and an acid head’s immortal ancestor reveals some troubling truths. A tourist becomes involved with the Tahitian underworld when his family leaves him behind and the bureaucracy won’t allow him to leave in “A Spot of Konfrontation.” The crew of Earth’s first interstellar mission returns home after 120 years away to find a world radically different from when they left in “Three Ways.” With humor and imagination, Aldiss leads readers from Earth to the stars and back again on a riveting journey that shows what makes mankind tick. “The wit is often brilliant, the sense of humor is usually informed by a zest for living and a nice awareness of the distance between man’s intellectual reach and his emotional grasp.” —Robert Nye, The Guardian

Collected from an evening of live performance, a selection of the Science Fiction Grand Master’s best stories, poetry, and speculations. In October 1987, Brian W. Aldiss—with the help of two other performers—took his science fiction to the masses, staging theatrical performances of his best stories and fantastic, mind-wrenching speculations before a live audience. Included in Science Fiction Blues are three short stories that were included in the show’s program, three scripted stories that didn’t make the final cut, and a selection of the author’s science fiction poetry. Among the scripted stories, readers will find “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” based on the original short story that inspired Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg’s film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, in which Aldiss portrayed the role of Teddy. When the show was taken on the road, Matrix hailed it as “possibly the best piece of SF theatre [they’ve] seen.” In this book’s introduction, Robert Holdstock recalls it as “an evening of splendidly visual effects” all done by words that “managed to indulge all the senses, all the moods. . . .The feeling was one of something very special.”

Explore the fate of humankind across the stars in this classic collection of stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Helliconia trilogy. “Aldiss’ stories are cleverly conceived and deeply felt.” —The A.V. Club In the far-distant future, refugees from Earth leave their dying planet behind for a wondrous galactic cluster known as “Starswarm.” Originally published in 1963, Starswarm takes readers on a grand tour of the civilizations inhabiting this galaxy’s vast sectors through a series of eight interconnected stories. Discover the strange new worlds and how humans have adapted to their new homes. A young man must make contact with an alien for the sake of his government. A new drug empowers soldiers at a great cost. A man and woman travel to a promised utopia only to be consumed with regret. A seasoned explorer crashes into what he believes is a primitive society. Something horrifying lies buried in the mud. A hero treks through a world full of a putrid stench. Witness the remnants of humanity as they struggle to survive and shape their destinies amidst harsh landscapes. Each world is different from the next, but all of them could only come from the mind of Science Fiction Grand Master. “Aldiss . . . has sufficient integrity never to put a piece of paper into his typewriter before he has hit on a really original idea. [Starswarm] is a perfect example of this.” —Oxford Mail “Given the brilliant success of [the Helliconia series], I would say Mr. Aldiss is now in competition with no one but himself.” —The New York Times Book Review

Five classic science fiction and fantasy tales from the author of “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the inspiration for the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss was a prolific author, as well as a winner of two Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. Originally published in 1969, Intangibles, Inc. collects five amazing short works from early in his career. In “Neanderthal Planet,” an author is caught attempting to escape a zoo where human beings are sequestered and must explain his behavior to the ruling artificial intelligence. Unborn children in “Randy’s Syndrome” grow frustrated with the state of the world and revolt. A psychiatrist believes he’s Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria in “Send Her Victorious.” A strange little man peddles an even stranger product that rules the lives and deaths of its customers in the title tale. And in “Since the Assassination,” a political assassination, evidence of a time distortion, and a drug granting immortality could all spell disaster for Earth. Each story in this anthology grapples with uniquely brilliant ideas, and together they vividly illustrate the powerful imagination of one of Britain’s greatest science fiction writers.

In this satirical science fiction classic, a new technology promises to help British subjects find love—and threatens to destroy the empire. In the years following World War II, a new day has risen in Great Britain. A mechanical marvel has arrived to free society from the shackles of prudish Victorian morality and neo-Freudianism. The Emotion Register, a coin-shaped device, attaches to the forehead and emits a soft pink glow when the wearer experiences sexual attraction. Now the British can no longer deny that sex exists—and the government is insisting everyone undergo the procedure to get the device. Much of the population, including young Jimmy Solent, embraces the Emotion Registers. The gadget gives them a new lease on life. Meanwhile others refuse, seeing the marvel as an invasion of privacy. And so, another conflict begins on British soil. Fortunately, the stakes are far lower and much more hilarious . . . A satire on sexual reserve set in an alternate world, The Primal Urge was first published in 1961. Although the novel was initially banned in Ireland, Brian W. Aldiss still went on to become a Grand Master of Science Fiction.

A grieving songwriter reflects on his life and contemplates his future in this classic novella of heartbreak and healing from a Grand Master of Science Fiction. It’s been a long time since Hugh Billing visited his home in England. Decades earlier, he made his fortune as a hit songwriter in America, but years of shuffling between cities and countries has changed him. His clothes are American, his speech is American—even his thoughts are American. He doesn’t have much English left inside him and he hasn’t had a hit in years. What he does have, however, is sadness . . . Then his mother’s death returns him to London to embark on a new journey. Forced to examine the state of his life, Hugh begins moving from loneliness and aimlessness to somewhere around survival and hope.

Survivors of nuclear war endure strange adventures across time and space in this humorous classic by a Grand Master of Science Fiction. World War III is coming to an end, but the real chaos is just beginning. Nuclear warfare during the conflict has given rise to a disturbance in the fabric of space and time. Time-turbulences run rampant, sending whatever is caught in their trap to different times and locations. Survivors find themselves in the past, present, or future—or on other planets. Leaders across the globe, as well as an advanced AI system, are all vying to learn as much as possible about these time anomalies—and exploit them as best they can. But the disappearance of a mega-industrialist could have some answers . . . Meanwhile, a band of heroes embarks on a perilous quest in an alternate world of swords and sorcery. A mad scientist is wreaking havoc on Mars. And just about everyone is bursting whimsically into song. Who knows if the mayhem will ever subside . . . “Offers some wild entertainment . . . the whizzing energy behind all these time-warps and dirty deterministic work at the cosmic crossroads is something to wonder at.” —The Guardian

NUEVA EDICIÓN REVISADA Todo es caos. El planeta Tierra parece a punto de fenecer: es un mundo arrasado por la superpoblación y la degradación medioambiental. La necesidad de alimentar a la gente ha conllevado a una explotación agrícola destructiva basada en productos químicos que agotan el suelo y convierten las labores del campo en trabajos realizados mayormente por robots. De hecho, la máquinas han pasado a ser más valiosas que los seres humanos. Y, con el colapso del sistema, las gentes se han echado en brazos de extraños y retorcidos cultos, ocupados solo en sobrevivir. El pronóstico de futuro no podría ser peor, el desastre es total... Pero siempre hay un lugar para la esperanza, y, en esta ocasión, toma la forma del carguero nuclear Estrella Trieste, capitaneado por un viajero exconvicto: Knowle Noman. Nadie como Brian Aldiss es capaz de combinar la profundidad de las ideas con la fuerza arrolladora y el trepidante ritmo narrativo de una gran novela de aventuras. Y nadie tampoco ha sabido, hasta ahora, enfrentar al lector a una situación desesperada que, quizás, en realidad, no esté tan lejos en un futuro como podría parecer, cuando Aldiss escribió la novela.

In ferner Zukunft hat die Erde aufgehört, sich zu drehen Millionen Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Sonne ist auf das Hundertfache ihrer Größe angewachsen. Erde und Mond drehen sich nicht mehr und haben sich einander bis auf wenige Tausend Kilometer angenähert. Im immerwährenden Sonnenlicht der Tagseite hat sich ein gewaltiger Dschungel aus fleischfressenden Pflanzen entwickelt. Was auf der in ewige Dunkelheit getauchten Nachtseite ist, weiß niemand. Dies ist die Geschichte von Gren, der sich mit seiner Gefährtin aufmacht, dieses Rätsel zu lösen – und sich auf seiner Reise unzähligen Gefahren stellen muss ...

A “brilliant . . . classic of the field” generation ship adventure from the Golden Age of Science Fiction by the author of the Helliconia Trilogy (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Non-Stop is Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss’s debut novel. Written in response to Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky and published in the late 1950s, it is set in a primitive world, home to tribes of inhabitants who endure their harsh and stunted lives in a maze of corridors. Though legends exist that they’re actually on a ship traveling through the universe, no one really believes it. But that conviction doesn’t stop a group of people from embarking on a mission to find the rumored “Forwards” section and its control room. Through a tangled, hydroponic jungle, they’ll encounter telepathic animals, giants, outcasts, and mutants in an epic race to uncover the truth—and survive . . . “A breakneck ride filled with some truly disturbing and chaotic imagery . . . Aldiss’ world is visceral and powerful.” —Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations “Worth reading, and quite a significant contribution to the long SF history of generation ship novels.” —SF Site Praise for Brian W. Aldiss “A major figure in world SF . . . Whatever else Aldiss may be, predictable he is not.” —The Guardian “One of the most influential—and one of the best—SF writers Britain has ever produced.” —Iain M. Banks, award-winning author of the Culture series “One of the most important SF writers of the 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly

Viele Wissenschaftler hatten eindringlich davor gewarnt, doch die Militärs glaubten, nicht auf sie verzichten zu können, also wurden Atombombentests im Orbit, außerhalb der Atmosphäre, durchgeführt. Zunächst schienen die Befürchtungen grundlos gewesen zu sein. Doch dann stellte sich heraus, dass keine Kinder mehr geboren wurden. Die Menschheit hatte es fertiggebracht, sich selbst zu sterilisieren. Die Menschen wurden immer älter, die sozialen Strukturen wandelten sich den Erfordernissen entsprechend, die Zivilisation begann zu erlöschen. Nur eines blieb: Das zählebige Gerücht, es würden dann und wann doch noch Kinder geboren. Nur blieben sie unsichtbar ...

Helliconia ist eine Welt in einem Doppelsternsystem, auf dem ein Jahr über zweitausend irdische Jahre dauert. Nun, nach einem langen Frühling und einem zweihundert Jahre währenden Sommer, verblasst das Licht der lebensspendenden Sonne Freyr wieder. Die stierköpfigen Phagoren, die im Winter über Helliconia herrschen, werden immer aggressiver und greifen die Städte der Menschen an. Zudem grassiert unter den Nachfahren jener Forscher von der Erde, die Helliconia einst entdeckt haben, eine Seuche – eine Folge der sinnlosen Kriege des Sommers. Der Winter hält Einzug. Er dauert 16 Jahrhunderte ...

Die nahe Zukunft: Durch einen Anschlag wird das Spaceshuttle Leda bei seiner Rückkehr vom Mond zum Absturz gebracht. Nur eines der vier Besatzungsmitglieder überlebt: Unterstaatssekretär Calvert Madie Roberts. Nachdem er tagelang auf dem Pazifischen Ozean dahingetrieben ist, strandet er an einer Insel. Doch ihre Bewohner schockieren Roberts: Sie sind zwar von menschlicher Gestalt, zeigen aber tierhafte Züge. Nach und nach findet Roberts heraus, dass diese Kreaturen künstlich geschaffen wurden. Doch ihr Schöpfer ist nicht bereit, seine Kreationen kampflos aufzugeben ...

Helliconia ist ein Planet in einem Doppelsternsystem, auf dem ein Jahr zweieinhalb Tausend irdische Jahre dauert. Nach mehr als tausend Jahren erbarmungslosem Winter beginnen die Gletscher auf Helliconia zurückzuweichen. Das erste Grün zeigt sich, die Tierwelt erwacht. Nun kehren auch die Menschen, Nachfahren der Forscher, die diese Welt einst entdeckten, an die Oberfläche ihres Planeten zurück – doch zuerst müssen sie die Fesseln der Barbarei abschütteln und sich von der Unterdrückung der einheimischen Phagoren befreien ...

Der Planet Helliconia umkreist ein Doppelsternsystem, so langsam, dass die Jahreszeiten Tausende Jahre dauern. Nach einem langen, harten Winter ist die Welt nun wieder erwacht. Die Menschen sind an die Oberfläche zurückgekehrt und entdecken alte Fertigkeiten und Künste wieder, die lange vergessen waren. Mit überlegener Waffengewalt werden die einheimischen Pahgoren zurückgedrängt, die Meere und Kontinente erkundet – und schon bald brechen die erste Kämpfe zwischen den Menschen aus. Der kurze, heiße Sommer auf Helliconia hat begonnen. Er dauert 238 Jahre ...

Eine Menschheitschronik aus der fernen Zukunft Vor Äonen verließen die Menschen ihren Heimatplaneten, eine kleine Welt in den Randbezirken unserer Galaxis, und brachen ins All auf. Ihre Nachfahren leben im Sternenschwarm, einem kosmischen Cluster mit zehntausenden Welten. Die Erde haben sie schon lange vergessen, doch das Erbe der Menschheit bewahren sie bis in die ferne Zukunft ...

Die Erde in der nahen Zukunft ist zu einer Albtraumwelt geworden: Ausgelaugt und abgewirtschaftet, von Insektiziden und Pestiziden vergiftet, bietet sie der sich explosionsartig vermehrenden Weltbevölkerung keinen Lebensraum mehr. Die meisten ihrer über zwanzig Milliarden Bewohner sind unterernährt und von Krankheiten gezeichnet. Allmächtige Farmer geben den Ton an. Die afrikanischen Länder – einst Spielball fremder Wirtschafts- und Konzerninteressen – treiben nun selbst Großmachtpolitik reinsten Wassers, während die früheren Industrienationen auf den Status von Entwicklungsländern herabgesunken und ihren Rohstofflieferanten auf Gedeih und Verderb ausgeliefert sind. Kurzum: Die Erde ist eine Welt geworden, deren Bewohner sich fragen müssen, ob ein Ende mit Schrecken nicht besser ist als ein Schrecken ohne Ende ...

Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts beschließen die Staaten der Erde, dass der Mars nicht zu einem zweiten »blauen Planeten« umgeformt werden soll, sondern – wie die Antarktis – der Wissenschaft vorbehalten bleibt. Auf diesem »weißen« Mars errichtet eine kleine Gruppe von Männern und Frauen eine Forschungseinrichtung. Sie hoffen, dort jenes Elementarteilchen zu finden, das die letzten Rätsel unseres Universums und unserer Existenz löst. Doch als sie durch eine Katastrophe von der Erde abgeschnitten werden, sind sie gezwungen, eine völlig neue Form menschlicher Gemeinschaft zu entwickeln, um ihr Überleben auf dem Planeten langfristig zu sichern.

Wie werden intelligente Lebewesen von einem anderen Planeten wohl aussehen? Gehen sie, so wie wir Menschen, aufrecht auf zwei Beinen? Oder tragen sie Kleidung? Als die Menschen zum ersten Mal auf die Utod stoßen – rhinozerosähnliche Kolosse mit sechs Beinen und grauer Haut, die sich am liebsten in ihren eigenen Exkrementen wälzen –, halten die Forscher sie für Tiere. Sie machen Jagd auf die großen Pazifisten, die obendrein keine Schmerzen empfinden können. Doch dann stellt ein Mitglied des Forscherteams die Intelligenz der Utod fest – und muss sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, was »intelligentes Leben« eigentlich bedeutet ...

Der Sammelband SCIENCE-FICTION-SOMMER 2018 beinhaltet auf über 1000 Seiten vier Romane und acht Erzählungen internationaler Spitzen-Autoren wie Douglas R. Mason, James E. Gunn, A. E. Van Vogt, James White, Roger Dee, Gordon R. Dickson, Brian W. Aldiss, John Rackham, Colin Kapp, Michael Moorcock und Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Dabei reicht das Spektrum von Space Opera über New-Wave-SF bis hin zur düsteren Dystopie.

Four loosely linked realistic novels from “one of Britain’s most accomplished and versatile writers” (The Guardian). A Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction writer, British novelist Brian W. Aldiss also regularly “returned to earth with distinction,” penning realistic works, including the Squire Quartet (The New York Times). Comprised of “loosely interconnected novels following many characters through a twenty-first century landscape of insidious new technology and international political turmoil” (Booklist), here is the complete series from this “ambitious and gifted writer” (The Guardian). Life in the West: Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent, and founder of the Society for Popular Aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with the lovely but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire’s private life—the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father’s death, and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England. “[A] novel of ideas that is also eminently readable . . . a virtuoso performance.” —Publishers Weekly Forgotten Life: Analyst Clement Winters is trying to write a biography of his recently deceased older brother, Joseph. Through the writings Joseph left behind—letters, diaries, notes, and confessions—Clement realizes how vastly his perception of his sibling differs from reality. As Clement tries to make sense of Joseph’s life, he uncovers dark corners of his family history and even his own existence. “A realistic novel . . . imaginative richness . . . [a] many-layered venture into the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.” —The New York Times Remembrance Day: When four people are killed by a terrorist bombing in a small British seaside hotel, an American academic examines the details of the victims’ lives and histories to find the relationship between them and their fate. “Aldiss discovers fresh and arresting nuances in the dichotomy between blind chance and predestination in human affairs . . . original, disturbing, and memorable.” —Kirkus Reviews Somewhere East of Life: Architectural historian Roy Burnell has been tasked with traveling the globe and listing architectural gems in danger of being destroyed. But when Burnell is in Budapest, ten years of his memory, including his sexual experiences, are stolen. In this near future, where thieves sell memories on the black market, Burnell tries to resume his life, while also searching for the “bullet” that will restore his memory. “Intelligent, funny, and hopeful in spite of itself.” —Kirkus Reviews

Angst und Entsetzen sind allgegenwärtig. Überall und zu jeder Stunde greifen sie in mannigfaltiger Gestalt und mit eiskalten Klauen nach ihren Opfern... ...wie in der Geschichte von einem ganz speziellen Totentanz... ...oder in der Geschichte von dem Schloss, welches am Rand der Welt und somit an der Grenze zum entfesselten Chaos liegt... ...oder in der Geschichte von der Frau mit Namen Mittwoch... ...oder in der Geschichte von der harmlosen Telefonzelle, die sich in eine Schreckenskammer verwandelt, aus der es kein Entrinnen gibt... ...oder in der Geschichte von der ermordeten Hexe, deren Geist grausame Rache an ihrem Mörder nimmt... ...oder in der Geschichte von einem Vampir, der sich in einer post-apokalyptischen Welt ernste Probleme mit einem Ghul, einem Werwolf und einem anderen Vampir einhandelt... ...oder in der Geschichte von einer ganz besonders perfiden fleischfressenden Pflanze... ...oder in der Geschichte von dem Mann, der das Grab seiner verstorbenen Frau zu lesen lernen will... ...oder in der Geschichte von der jungen Frau und ihrem Zwiegespräch mit einer Epidemie, die bereits die gesamte Menschheit ausgelöscht hat. DREIZEHN SCHATTEN, der fünfte Band der Horror-Reihe 13 SHADOWS aus dem Apex-Verlag, die ganz in der Tradition legendärer Heftroman-Reihen wie GESPENSTERKRIMI und VAMPIR-HORROR-ROMAN steht, versammelt neun ausgewählte Horror-Erzählungen von Mervyn Peake, Michael Moorcock, William Tenn, Robert Presslie, Brian W. Aldiss, E.C. Tubb, Eric Williams, Theodore Sturgeon und Christian Dörge.

From a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it. Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system—and the satellite from Earth secretly monitoring it. Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss then explores the social and religious divisions keeping the planet’s population in conflict even as they’re devastated by plague in Helliconia Summer, and concludes the trilogy with Helliconia Winter, which recounts both the threat of a looming, frigid age of decay and the hope of a new future. The Helliconia Trilogy is both a riveting story and a thought-provoking examination of how our destinies are shaped by the environment around us. Aldiss’s study of fields from astronomy to climatology to geobiology endow all three novels with rich details of the planet Helliconia. This riveting, century-spanning saga is a timely exploration of what climate change can mean for our own planet. “Brian Aldiss’s towering imagination places his Helliconia Trilogy far above standard science fiction” (Daily Mail).

The Complete Aldiss Short Stories from the 1970s. A must-have for collectors, reissued as part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. The complete short stories of the 1970s, drawn from sources such as previous anthologies and rare magazines.Capturing the imagination and skill of one of Sci-Fi''s Grand Masters.