New Releases by Brian Wilson Aldiss

Úvodní díl sci-fi trilogie o planetě Helikonii, která se po dlouhém období doby ledové opět probouzí k životu. Strhující epos o planetě trpící střídáním smrtelně nebezpečných extrémů. Staletí trvající zima odsoudí celé civilizace k záhubě. Do jara se probouzí svět nezatížený minulostí, a přesto jej čeká stejný osud. Nakladatelská anotace.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

Set on the Red Planet, this book follows the stories of a group of colonists and the problems they have in setting up a new society. Life can be sustained by technology but new life will not prosper - the woman on the planet only ever give birth to stillborn children.

Welcome to Dr Moreau''s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men... Available for the first time in eBook. He stands very tall, long prosthetic limbs glistening in the harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip clasped in artificial hands. Man-beasts cower on the sand as he brandishes his gun in the air. He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the fabulous, grotesque island, where humans are as brutes and brutes as humans, where the future of the entire human race is being reprogrammed. The place of untold horrors. The place of the New Man.

After the "Accident," all males on earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now earth''s population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their 50''s. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man-eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coast with the hope of finding something better. With a New Introduction from the Author! "When is science fiction not science fiction? The answer must be: When it becomes too frighteningly believable. This is." - Sacramento Bee

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 of this harsh cycle.

Après le printemps et l''été d''Helliconia, voici venir son hiver, dernier volet de la prodigieuse trilogie épique de Brian Aldiss. Un hiver de mille ans qui sera pour les humains le temps de la décadence et du repli dans les cavernes profondes, et peut-être celui de l''oubli de la civilisation qu''ils ont su créer durant l''été. Luterin Shoderankit veut se montrer digne de son père, le gardien redouté de la Grande Roue de Karnabhar. Il devient un héros au combat contre les phagors et s''éprend de la femme dont il a fait son esclave en tuant son époux. Il se dirige vers le nord au moment où la nuit descend sur Helliconia, et va rencontrer son destin. Un destin entre cent de ce livre-univers qui nous entraîne à plus de mille années-lumière de la Terre.

It is the very near future. Paul Ali, a young science fiction writer, who has the perceived misfortune of a Muslim heritage, has been arrested and is held as prisoner B. Whenever his jailers feel like it, they beat him up. To escape from this, prisoner B writes a science fiction novel set on a planet 1000 light years away.

Helliconia : planète de type terrestre, surveillée depuis des siècles par un satellite terrien ; climat glaciaire. A la surface, une poignée de chasseurs humains et un peuple d''autochtones, les Phagors. Dans les profondeurs des cavernes, une civilisation humaine statique et souffreteuse, confinée par les prêtres dans le culte de Watra, le dieu des Glaces. Mais sous le regard du satellite, les choses changent. L''un des deux soleils, Freyr, semble grossir. La neige fond. C''est le printemps. Et la promesse d''un autre ordre social. Car Helliconia tourne autour de deux soleils, Batalix et Freyr. Son orbite autour de Batalix définit la petite année de quatre cent quatre-vingts jours. Mais elle accompagne Batalix autour de Freyr en mille huit cent vingt-cinq petites années. Et parce que Freyr est une étoile géante et que cette grande orbite est très elliptique, Helliconia connaît un hiver de près de mille ans et un été torride de la même durée. Entre les deux, un bref printemps. De saisons si longues, nul ne conserve le souvenir, sinon les légendes. Pour Yuli le chasseur, le printemps d''Helliconia c''est le monde à l''envers, la révolution, le dégel de l''Histoire.

This special collection of short stories from Grand Master Brian Aldiss is being issued to coincide with his 80th birthday. Set to include such notable works as "Aboard the Beatitude," "A Man with His Mule," and "Head," the anthology will also feature commentaries from a group of his peers sharing their perspectives on this amazingly talented individual.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Modern Art Oxford, 8 May - 4 July 2004.

A down-at-heel actor, Perian de Chirolo, sees everything in the embalmed city state of Malacia as art or artifice, until reality catches up with him.

SUPER-STATE is Europe in a mere 40 years'' time, where men and women are much like us, but despite technological advancement the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists. The comedy emerges from human behaviour - as does the tragedy. While many go their own moderately sweet way, Britain and Europe are bedevilled by global warming and war with an external enemy. With cool wit, Aldiss shows us what might happen as Europe expands and Britain and Ireland shrink. Better times seem, as always, to be on the way, but a subversive group calling themselves the ''Insanatics'' is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population. Androids, too, prove nothing but a nuisance, and are generally kept locked in the cupboard. However, life goes on as usual - except for the crew of an expedition to another planet. But the least said about that the better.

The title story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long, soon to be a major film directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android, a cunning construct of artificial intelligence - as is his one ally, his teddy bear. It was a story that hugely affected Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) and Steven Spielberg (who perhaps saw in his forthcoming movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) a complement to his ET!). The other stories in the collection, whether SF, utopian fantasy or dark fable show a master writer at the peak of his considerable powers.

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down ... Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.

WHITE MARS is Brian Aldiss'' Utopian vision of Mankind''s future in space, written in collaboration with distinguished physicist Roger Penreose. Halfway through the next century, an organisation called EUPACUS, consisting of all the leading industrialised nations, has found a way to colonise Mars. They have, however, decided to protect the planet for scientific research. Human beings will live in great, self-perpetuating domes, producing their own food and oxygen, while drawing water from the planet''s core. The option of terraforming the planet, bombarding it with CFCs in order to give it an atmosphere, has been discontinued. Owing to economic collapse on earth the martian colony is cut off from the mother planet (''Downstairs'' as they call it). The head of the colony, Tim Jefferies, sets out to create a perfect society. Some, however, only want to get home, and think that the Utopian ideals (which are all broadcast back to Earth) will only hamper their rescue. An arresting novel of ideals and conflicts WHITE MARS contrasts the warmth of community in the domes with the icy wastes of Mars.

We devotees of SF enjoy its diversity of opinion, the bustle of bright and dark, the clash of progress and entropy, the clamour of theories about the past, the future, the ever-present present, everything. In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world''s pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writing.

Collection of short stories, linked by themes of life, death and transformation. By the author of "Somewhere east of life", "Remembrance day" and "A tupolev too far".

Science fiction-roman. Arkitekturhistorikeren Roy Burnell er blevet frastjålet 10 år af sin elskovshukommelse. Hans eftersøgning fører ham vidt omkring under dække af at registrere bevaringsværdig arkitektur

Three characters - Russian-born Dominic, whose marriage is coming adrift, bankrupt, high-flier Ray Tebbutt, and Peter Petrick, a dissident Czech film director, converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb episode in Great Yarmouth.