Brian Aldiss: 41 books

Synergy - Die Science-Fiction-Literatur der 1990er Jahre. Die Synergisten stellten sich Ende der 1980er Jahre die folgenden Fragen: Wie geht es weiter nach dem Cyberpunk? War die schicke Postmoderne das Ende der Science Fiction? Hat sie sich in die virtuellen Realitäten des Cyberspace...

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...

**War is humanity’s only hope. “**Aldiss’ dark vision of collapsing society and withering earth is poignant and brutal . . . [a] richly detailed world” (Science Fiction Ruminations). In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over‑farming, robots are considered...

A strange alien species forces us to question our definition of civilization in this biting satire from the Grand Master of Science Fiction. What would intelligent life‑forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures...

A civilization crumbles as its planet hurtles away from its star in the final chapter of this “monumental” epic from the Grand Master of Science Fiction (The Times, London). After many centuries, the flowering of human civilization has begun to dwindle again and the Great Year slowly progresses...

“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly). How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

The Grand Master of Science Fiction’s “monumental” epic continues as Helliconia nears its larger star—and a strange visitor joins its civilization (The Times, London). A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven...

Non-Stop remains a brilliant and ground-breaking work of imagination. Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. It's members lived out their lives in cramped quarters, hacking away at the encroaching jungle called “the ponics.? As to where they were—that had long ago been forgotten. But Roy...

Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this “adult Lord of the Flies” by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the “Accident,” all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under....

A new savior emerges from a drugged-out dystopia in “the most ambitious psychedelic sci-fi novel of the era” from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Conceptual Fiction). The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans...

From one of science fiction’s greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Orwell’s 1984, and Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political climate and a visionary allegory that shines...

Danger : religion ! Attention : une Église peut en cacher une autre. L’esclave juché sur le toit du taxi aperçut le revolver de Rastell. Son visage se décomposa ; il sauta à terre et rejoignit ses camarades terrorisés, qui ne songeaient plus qu’à s’enfuir. Rastell ne tira pas. Une voiture...