Best Selling Books by Brian Wilson

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.

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.

A glittering twelve story collection from Britain''s best loved Sci-Fi writer.

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.

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.

"Two moons circle the dead planet Earth... but the race of man who eons ago escaped its withered crust live lives of bizarre variety on Starswarm. A part of the neo-human species who populate the far-flung sectors of a wondrous galactic cluster, they struggle to survive, to shape their destiny, to control forces they themselves have brought into being..."--Pg. [4] of cover.

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.

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."

Brian Wilson a créé l’une des musiques populaires les plus innovantes et intemporelles jamais enregistrées. Avec des harmonies vocales complexes et des compositions audacieuses, qui exploraient les joies les plus transcendantes et les peines les plus profondes, des chansons comme « In my Room », « God Only Knows » ont élargi les possibilités de l’écriture pop. À la dérive dans les années 1970, en raison de la maladie mentale, des drogues et de la fortune capricieuse du groupe, Wilson se consacre avant tout au studio. Pour la première fois, Brian Wilson revient sur les sources de son inspiration créatrice et sur ses luttes. Né en 1942, Brian Wilson est le cofondateur, compositeur et chanteur des Beach Boys. Il a révolutionné la musique avec les albums Pet Sounds ou Smile, dans un défi permanent avec les Beates, dont ils sont le pendant américain. « Une merveilleuse plongée dans un génie chaotique. » - Forbes « Cette autobiographie détient un rythme imprévisible. » - The New York Times

Bundel met 22 sf-verhalen die eerder verschenen tussen 1955 en 1986.

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

The author has created a series of short stories that chronicle of the next forty million years.

Science fiction-noveller.