Most Popular Books by Brian Wilson Aldiss

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

WHITE MARS is Brian Aldiss'' Utopian vision of mankind''s future in space, written in collaboration with distinguished physicist Roger Penrose. 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.

"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.

Edward Bush emprende una investigación acerca de la naturaleza del tiempo y del sentido de la historia mediante diversos viajes en el espaciotiempo, y en cada una de sus escalas, además de conocer aspectos curiosos de diversos momentos en el devenir de la Humanidad, va configurando una interesante reflexión acerca de la relatividad del tiempo. Sus encuentros dan pie a emocionantes historias que, en su conjunto, ofrecen todos los elementos para que el lector se replantee su idea del tiempo. Con esta sugerente idea, Aldiss creó lo que el Sunday Telegraph describió muy acertadamente como "un libro de enorme talento, ingenioso y perturbador", mientras desde las páginas del Sunday Times Edmundo Cooper añadía: "Bien escrito, evocativo e inquietante... Aldiss es un mago".

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.

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.

Large-format book of weird/fantasy/science fiction poetry by SF master Brian W. Aldiss, with suitably Gothic drawings and coloured illustrations (reminiscent of Escher''s work but without the trompe l''oeuil effects) by talented artist Mike Wilks.

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.

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

Science fiction-roman.

"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-noveller.

A tale of alternate worlds and their effect on the everyday life of a man faced with a personal crisis