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Cryptozoic! (S. F. Masterworks Ser.)
by Brian Aldiss'The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.'The time traveller Bush's adventure takes him through 1930, 1851, the Jurassic and 2093, on the way exploring a modern crisis that remains our own.In Brian Aldiss's tale of time travel, the fiction is once again as psychologically imaginative as it is scientific, an idiosyncrasy of Aldiss's future visions that, over time, have proven remarkably prescient.
Cryptozoic! (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Brian AldissIn the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy 'trip' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . .
The Detached Retina: Aspects Of Sf And Fantasy
by Brian AldissA collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.
Dracula Unbound (The Monster Trilogy #Vol. 2)
by Brian AldissA dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can…Available for the first time in eBook.
Earthworks
by Brian Aldiss'No way of solving these problems exists any more. The conventions collapsed like old bridges. On the one side of the gulf is the mind, eternal and untouched - on the other, the body, running, jumping, bleeding ... The mind can take care of itself, as it has had to from the very beginning; it's not as smart as the body, but it can survive.'The future Earth of Brian Aldiss's Earthworks is a moribund ecological disaster, ruined by poisons, greed, unsustainable development and overpopulation. Mankind is broken, starving, wracked with disease and divided by bitter social injustice. Our window into this terrible world is the dangerous, crazed Knowle Noland, whose destructive impulses threaten to upturn the wreckage of civilization, either to redemption or final catastrophe.Rarely do Science Fiction works stand well the test of time as their suppositions are out-dated and superseded; Brian Aldiss's vision is remarkable for having come closer to reality decades after he conceived of this terrible future.
Eighty Minute Hour: A Space Opera
by Brian AldissA Space Opera. An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera!
Enemies of the System: Homo Uniformis (Nebulae Ser.)
by Brian AldissIn the future, mankind’s physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show.
Frankenstein Unbound (The Monster Trilogy)
by Brian AldissWhen Joe Bodenland is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1816, his first reaction is of eager curiosity rather than distress…This is Aldiss’ response to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, available for the first time in eBook.
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
by Brian Aldiss'Brian Aldiss seems to have always had a more oceanic sense of time than most science fiction writers, an almost measured vision of what will transpire in the long run, a time-sense which is reflected both in his fiction and in the pace and course of his career.' Norman SpinradThese nine stories from 1960, early in Brian Aldiss's long and productive career, were originally conceived as a single entity, and form a chronicle of the next forty million years. They are arranged sequentially, beginning with the near-future and ending, with 'The Ultimate Millennia', hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years later.'One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work.' Science Fiction Writers
Greybeard (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Brian AldissEcological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.
Helliconia: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter (S.F. MASTERWORKS #Bks. 1-3)
by Brian AldissHelliconia 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 and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact.Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.
Helliconia Spring: Helliconia Spring; Helliconia Summer; Helliconia Winter (Gateway Essentials #1)
by Brian AldissThis is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental saga which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons . Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth's observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent novels of scientific romance.
Helliconia Summer: Helliconia Spring; Helliconia Summer; Helliconia Winter (Gateway Essentials #2)
by Brian AldissThe second novel in the epic Helliconia trilogy. It is the summer of the Great Year on Helliconia. The humans are involved with their own affairs. Their old enemies, the phagors, are comparitively docile at this time of year; yet they can afford to wait, to take advantage of human weakness - and of the king's weakness. How they do so brings to a climax this powerfully compelling novel, in which the tortuous unwindings of circumstance enmesh royalty and commoners alike, and involve the three Helliconia continents.
Helliconia Winter: Helliconia Spring; Helliconia Summer; Helliconia Winter (Gateway Essentials #3)
by Brian AldissThe third and final book in the epic Helliconia trilogy. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it - and against the phagors, humanity's ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them.
Interpreter
by Brian AldissEarthman Gary Towler is a pariah. He must interpret the will of the Nuls who rule his planet, Earth, and he’s running out of time to overthrow their plans…
Jocasta: Wife And Mother
by Brian AldissA Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection.
Life in the West: Life In The West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day, And Somewhere East Of Life (The Squire Quartet #1)
by Brian AldissThe first volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet., available for the first time on ebook.
The Malacia Tapestry (The Brian Aldiss Collection)
by Brian AldissIn Malacia, a city where change is forbidden and radical ideas are crushed, a war like no other is about to commence. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.
The Male Response (The Brian Aldiss Collection)
by Brian AldissWritten at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.
The Monster Trilogy (The\monster Trilogy Ser.)
by Brian AldissDracula Unbound, Frankenstein Unbound and Moreau’s Other Island all together in one eBook.
Moreau’s Other Island (The Monster Trilogy)
by Brian AldissWelcome to Dr Moreau’s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men…Available for the first time in eBook.
Non-Stop (S.F. MASTERWORKS #No.33)
by Brian AldissCuriosity 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.
Pale Shadow of Science
by Brian AldissTwo of Aldiss’ essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume.
Remembrance Day: Life In The West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day, And Somewhere East Of Life (The Squire Quartet #3)
by Brian AldissThe third book in the Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.