New Releases by Brian Wilson Aldiss

Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley.

Science fiction-noveller.

The first British novel to explore, frankly and with unabashed honesty, the sexual awakening of an adolescent boy and to describe his youthful preoccupation with masturbation in such explicit terms. A classic study of a journey of self-discovery, it can be enjoyed as a witty portrayal of experiences common to all young males as they reach puberty and embark on the stormy voyage to adulthood.

"G was the first. For two years he had lived in the bungalow that stood in back of the house. S was the second. He was the careful one. The slow one--except that they were all slow, and careful. C was the third. Together, they watched Mr. and Mrs. Mary, who lived in the house and who spent their time watching G, S and C... but even as they held patient guard over one another, there were others... those who sought the key to other worlds, other probabilities..."--Back cover.

Science fiction-roman.

On one half of an Earth that has long since ceased to spin, a group of humans attempt to exist against an animal-devouring horror.

"The moon is a nuclear bonfire, smouldering for 100,000 years after the war to end all wars. Robot slaves toil away on a starved planet, unaware the masters they serve are all but extinct. From the rim of space, a horde of invading primitives brings the message of final doom to the most sublime civilization ever known."--Back cover.

In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount, which he describes as a "shabby outpost of literacy." Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his efforts to find "a suitable girl."