Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet,
playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in
1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which
provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries
(1955). His first published science fiction work was the story
‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since
then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories,
many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss
Collection.
Several of Aldiss’ books have been adapted for the cinema; his
story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ was adapted and released as
the film AI in 2001. Besides his own writing, Brian has edited
numerous anthologies of science fiction and fantasy stories, as
well as the magazine SF Horizons.
Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society
and in 2000 was given the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Aldiss was awarded the
OBE for services to literature in 2005. He now lives in Oxford, the
city in which his bookselling career began in 1947.
'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.’THE TELEGRAPH ‘Aldiss has rarely been far from SF’s intellectual centre.’ SFX MAGAZINE
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