Brian Aldiss Books In Order

Horatio Stubbs Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)
  2. A Soldier Erect (1971)
  3. A Rude Awakening (1978)

The Squire Quartet Books In Publication Order

  1. Life in the West (1980)
  2. Forgotten Life (1988)
  3. Remembrance Day (1993)
  4. Somewhere East Of Life (1994)

Helliconia Books In Publication Order

  1. Helliconia Spring (1982)
  2. Helliconia Summer (1983)
  3. Helliconia Winter (1985)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Starswarm (1954)
  2. The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
  3. Non-Stop / Starship (1958)
  4. Vanguard From Alpha (1959)
  5. Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter (1960)
  6. Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth (1961)
  7. The Male Response (1961)
  8. The Primal Urge (1961)
  9. Dark Light Years (1964)
  10. Greybeard (1964)
  11. Earthworks (1965)
  12. Cryptozoic! / An Age (1967)
  13. A Report on Probability (1968)
  14. Barefoot in the Head (1969)
  15. Neanderthal Planet (1969)
  16. Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
  17. The Eighty-Minute Hour (1974)
  18. Enemies of the System (1978)
  19. Moreau’s Other Island (1980)
  20. An Island Called Moreau (1980)
  21. Tales from the Planet Earth (1986)
  22. The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical (1987)
  23. Ruins (1988)
  24. Sex and the Black Machine (1988)
  25. Dracula Unbound (1990)
  26. White Mars / The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia (With: ) (1999)
  27. The Cretan Teat (2001)
  28. Super State (2002)
  29. Affairs At Hampden Ferrers (2004)
  30. Jocasta (2005)
  31. Sanity and the Lady (2005)
  32. Harm (2007)
  33. Walcot (2009)
  34. Finches of Mars (2012)
  35. Comfort Zone (2013)
  36. The Malacia Tapestry (2014)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957)
  2. No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)
  3. Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time (1959)
  4. The Airs of Earth (1963)
  5. The Saliva Tree (1966)
  6. Who Can Replace a Man? (1966)
  7. Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories (1969)
  8. The Moment of Eclipse (1970)
  9. Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972)
  10. Equator (1973)
  11. Brothers of the Head (1977)
  12. Last Orders (1977)
  13. Pile (1979)
  14. New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)
  15. Foreign Bodies (1981)
  16. Farewell to a Child (1982)
  17. Seasons in Flight (1984)
  18. A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories (1986)
  19. The Magic Of The Past (1987)
  20. Science Fiction Blues (1988)
  21. Man in His Time (1989)
  22. At the Caligula Hotel (1995)
  23. The Secret of This Book / Common Clay (1995)
  24. Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time (2001)
  25. The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
  26. Cultural Breaks (2005)
  27. A Prehistory of Mind (2008)
  28. Mortal Morning (2011)
  29. The Invention of Happiness (2013)
  30. Songs from the Steppes (2014)
  31. The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s (2015)
  32. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) (2015)
  33. The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) (2015)

Best SF Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Best SF: 1968 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Harry Harrison) (1969)
  2. Best SF: 1969 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Harry Harrison) (1970)
  3. Best SF: 1970 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 4 (With: Harry Harrison) (1971)
  4. Best SF: 1971 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 5 (With: Harry Harrison) (1972)
  5. Best SF: 1975 / The Year’s Best Science Fiction 9 (With: Harry Harrison) (1976)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Shape of Further Things (1970)
  2. Billion Year Spree (1973)
  3. Science Fiction Art (1975)
  4. This World and Nearer Ones (1979)
  5. Pale Shadow of Science (1986)
  6. Trillion Year Spree (With: David Wingrove) (1986)
  7. And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography (1986)
  8. The Detached Retina (1988)
  9. Bury My Heart At W.H.Smith’s (1990)
  10. Home Life With Cats (1992)
  11. When The Feast Is Finished (1994)
  12. The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998)
  13. Art After Apogee (2000)
  14. Plutonian Monologue (2000)
  15. The Starry Messenger (2006)
  16. An Exile on Planet Earth (2012)
  17. The Twinkling of an Eye (2015)

Decade Books In Publication Order

  1. Decade, the 1940s (1975)
  2. Decade, the 1950s (1976)
  3. Decade, the 1960s (1977)

Nebula Awards Books In Publication Order

  1. Nebula Awards 1 (By:Damon Knight) (1966)
  2. Nebula Awards 2 (With: Harry Harrison) (1966)
  3. Nebula Awards 3 (By:Roger Zelazny) (1968)
  4. Nebula Awards 4 (By:Karen Anderson) (1968)
  5. Nebula Awards 5 (By:Alexei Panshin) (1969)
  6. Nebula Awards 6 (By:Thomas D. Clareson) (1971)
  7. Nebula Awards 7 (By:Theodore Sturgeon,Lloyd Biggle Jr.) (1972)
  8. Nebula Awards 8 (By:Isaac Asimov) (1973)
  9. Nebula Awards 9 (By:Kate Wilhelm) (1974)
  10. Nebula Awards 10 (By:James Gunn) (1975)
  11. Nebula Awards 11 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,Craig Kee Strete) (1976)
  12. Nebula Awards 14 (By:Robin Malkin) (1980)
  13. Nebula Awards 15 (By:Frank Herbert) (1981)
  14. Nebula Awards 16 (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (1982)
  15. Nebula Awards 17 (By:Joe Haldeman) (1983)
  16. Nebula Awards 19 (By:Marta Randall) (1984)
  17. Nebula Awards 20 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  18. Nebula Awards 21 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  19. Nebula Awards 22 (By:George Zebrowski) (1988)
  20. Nebula Awards 23 (By:Michael Bishop) (1989)
  21. Nebula Awards 24 (By:Michael Bishop) (1990)
  22. Nebula Awards 25 (By:Michael Bishop) (1991)
  23. Nebula Awards 26 (By:James K. Morrow) (1992)
  24. Nebula Awards 27 (By:James K. Morrow) (1993)
  25. Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow) (1994)
  26. Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1995)
  27. Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1996)
  28. Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  29. Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress) (1999)
  30. Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford) (2000)
  31. Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2002)
  32. Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress) (2003)
  33. Nebula Awards 38 (2004) (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (2004)
  34. Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman) (2005)
  35. Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe) (2006)
  36. Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman) (2008)
  37. Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow) (2009)
  38. Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett) (2010)
  39. Nebula Awards 45 (2011) (By:Kevin J. Anderson) (2011)
  40. Nebula Awards 46 (2012) (By:John Kessel) (2012)
  41. Nebula Awards 47 (2013) (By:Catherine Asaro) (2013)
  42. Nebula Awards 48 (2014) (By:Kij Johnson) (2014)
  43. Nebula Awards 50 (2016) (By:Mercedes Lackey) (2016)
  44. Nebula Awards 51 (2017) (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2017)
  45. Nebula Awards 52 (2018) (By:Jane Yolen) (2018)
  46. Nebula Awards 53 (2019) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2019)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991)
  4. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992)
  5. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993)
  6. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995)
  7. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
  8. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
  9. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
  10. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001)
  11. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
  12. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005)
  13. The Best of the Best (2005)
  14. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006)
  15. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007)
  16. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008)
  17. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2008)
  18. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010)
  19. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013)
  20. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014)
  21. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Penguin science fiction (1961)
  2. Best fantasy stories (1962)
  3. More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
  4. Introducing Science Fiction (1967)
  5. Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus (1968)
  6. Backdrop of Stars (1968)
  7. The Inner Landscape (1969)
  8. Dangerous Visions 1 (1969)
  9. The Astounding Analog Reader (1972)
  10. The Astounding Analog Reader, Book 2 (1973)
  11. Factions (1974)
  12. Space Odysseys (1974)
  13. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974)
  14. Evil Earths (1975)
  15. Hell’s Cartographers (1975)
  16. Galactic Empires 2 (1976)
  17. Beyond Tomorrow (1976)
  18. Perilous Planets (1980)
  19. The Book of Mini-Sagas (1985)
  20. Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987)
  21. The Book of Mini-Sagas 2 (1988)
  22. Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold (1988)
  23. Dark Fantasies (1989)
  24. Mini Sagas 1999 (1999)
  25. Nebula Awards 35 (2001) (2001)
  26. Mini-Sagas (2002)
  27. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  28. Four For Fantasy (2013)

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Brian Aldiss Books Overview

A Soldier Erect

The ebullient average man hero of The Hand Reared Boy is now a year older. He is on excellent form when his regiment is despatched overseas to India to become part of the unforgettable Forgotten Army, were heat and dust are in conflict with the sexual urges of the young soldiers. Once in Burma, the men are plunged into the Battle of Kohima. The sexuality and blunt language of fighting men in crisis is humorously conveyed in this, the onl

A Rude Awakening

In this powerful addition to the legend of a sex prone sergeant, Horatio Stubbs finds himself in trouble with women and not for the first time. However, quite uncommonly, Stubbs seems to be enjoying a period of success, with a bevy of eager women who all want a piece of him. The whoring, boozing and army horseplay of this novel take place in serious surroundings. The year is 1946, and British, Dutch, Indian, Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian forces confront each other for possession of the island of Sumatra.

Life in the West

Thomas C Squire, founder of the Society for Popular Aesthetics, one time secret agent and successful hedonist faces a midlife crisis. That undermines the stability of his ancestral home in Norfolk. Following the creation of his TV documentary series, FRANKENSTEIN AMONG THE ARTS, Squire attends a conference of academics in Sicily. There, against a background of international rivalry, he becomes involved with the lovely if calculating Selina and the Russian Vasily. In counterpoint to the drama of the conference runs the story of Squire’s private life: the horrifying circumstances of his father’s death; his many affairs with women; and his fifteen month separation from his wife. This brilliant novel, sometimes violent and always compassionate, moves from England to Sicily, from Singapore to the former Yugoslavia. Life in the West embodies the best characteristics of Brian Aldiss’s writing: wit, human understanding, a fine turn of phrase and consummate storytelling.

Somewhere East Of Life

Burnell, a culture preservationist, travels throughout the world appealing to the mas*ses to consider the detriment of war and human folly, and trying to locate a ten year piece of his memory that has been stolen and sold as soft po*rn.

Helliconia Spring

This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today’s imaginative writers. Helliconia, the chief planet of a binary system, is emerging from its centuries long winter. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from their hiding places and are again able to dispute possession of the planet with the ferocious phagors. In Oldorando, love, trade and coinage are being rediscovered. Aldiss’s short story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ was the basis for the Steven Spielberg/Stanley Kubrick film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Introduction by the author. Over 1,000,000 Brian W. Aldiss books in print! Aldiss novel Frankenstein Unbound was adapted for the film starring John Hurt and Bridget Fonda. Aldiss’s was named a science fiction Grandmaster in 2000 by the Science Fiction Writers of America A Robert Silverberg selection

Helliconia Summer

A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations long winter. It is the summer of the Great Year on Helliconia. The humans are involved with their own affairs. Their old enemies, the phagors, are comparatively docile at this time of year, yet they can afford to wait, to take advantage of human weakness?and 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 Helliconia continents. This is the second volume of the Helliconia Trilogy?a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today?s imaginative writers.

Helliconia Winter

A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations long winter. 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& 39s will is set against it& 45and against the phagors, humanity& 39s ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them. This is the concluding volume of the Helliconia Trilogy& 45a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today& 39s imaginative writers.

The Brightfount Diaries

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 s, 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 .

Non-Stop / Starship

Curiosity 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.

Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth

In the future, when the Sun has expanded and is ready to go nova, few animal species remain while plants have adapted to fill animal niches. One of the few species to survive are humans, but in much altered forms. It is here where young tribal Gren finds himself captured by an intelligent fungus with plans to colonize humans to control the world! Hothouse tells the story of a remarkable journey of discovery that will alter your perceptions about the true nature of the world today…
and the world to come!

The Male Response

Marginally sf, how the indecisive Soames Noyes is sent by his company with a computer to the newly free black state of Goya in Africa, where he becomes entangled with women and witch doctors. Forerunner to the Horatio Stubbs stories book was banned in SA as being obscene, objectionable or undesirable.

Dark Light Years

The Utods are a highly advanced alien species from whom the human race might learn much, with superior technology and a profound philosophy. But when they meet, their customs and conventions are far beneath what humankind considers to be civilized. Brian Aldiss’s satirical depiction of the first encounter and subsequent violent conflict between mankind and a gentle, intelligent race which it cannot understand was first published in 1964, but its archly ironic message of cultural misunderstanding and the potential for catastrophe it entails resonates as strongly today. ‘Flies straight to its mark with hardly a word wasted: a treat for the fans and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the fiction and ideas of today.’ Kingsley Amis

Greybeard

The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on theselves. Was slighty revised.

Earthworks

Is war the only way of reviving an overpopulated, degenerate world? Knowle Noland ex convict, ex traveller and captain of the tramp freighter Trieste Star has always believed that war was senseless and futile. But faced with starvation and disease in a barren land, where robots and prison gangs tend the poison drenched countryside, and under the influence of the beautiful Justine, who believes that a global war is the only answer, Knowle begins to hope that a war begun by him will wipe out millions and lead to a better world for the survivors.

Cryptozoic! / An Age

‘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.

A Report on Probability

An ominous sequence unfolds when it is revealed that strangely intriguing Mrs Mary is being watched from her garden by a trio of strange characters G, S and C who are in turn being watched by another observer, who is being watched by a solitary figure on a hill in a third dimension, who is being watched by a group of men in New York, who are being watched by a clairvoyant’s prying mind? In this bizarre and brilliant novel nothing is certain and everything is relative.

Barefoot in the Head

When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho Chemical Aerosols tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world.

Frankenstein Unbound

Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, pas*ses 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. This title was made into a film, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric and Michael Hutchence.

The Eighty-Minute Hour

Brian Aldiss’ highly inventive space opera is a mind expanding range of songs and science that takes us, twisting and turning, through a cornucopia of intergalactic merriment and melodrama. Eccentric characters burst into full throated song with each meandering plot.

Enemies of the System

Ho*mo Uniformis: man alike throughout a centralised nervous system and a million years of genetic engineering have flushed out the old ways of war, disease, ritual and emotion. But the planet of Lysenka II is inhabited by the primitive descendants of the original space ship colonists, and when a group of the system’s elite become stranded in the wilderness they face a horrifying threat to their survival.

Tales from the Planet Earth

A collection of science fiction stories revolves around the theme of human and alien co existing in one body. 1986 New York: St. Martin’s Press, hardcover Collaborative novel with nineteen contributors, including Pohl, Hull, Spider Robinson, Somtow Sucharitkul, Harry Harrison, Brian W. Aldiss, A. Bertram Chandler, Joseph Nesvadba, and others.

Dracula Unbound

In the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs. Linking these scenarios is impetuous inventor, Joe Bodenland, who has just created a time machine that manipulates time to disperse of hazardous waste.

The Cretan Teat

The Cretan Teat A profound story about history, blame, corruption, obsession, sex, the novelist and growing old disgracefully The Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of a randy but unfortunate author who becomes a character in his own novel, this clever novel, which smacks of both Pirandello and post modernism, walks a tightrope between hilarity and tragedy as it delivers on familiar Aldiss themes, as muff diving and nose diving to disaster alternate to powerful effect. The Cretan Teat is without doubt Brian Aldiss’ most ribald novel since The Hand Reared Boy.

The Malacia Tapestry

In the timeless city of Malacia, a place swathed in magic and on the brink of war, lives a young man named Perian de Chirolo a free spirit, a fearless lover who embarks on a harrowing odyssey with dramatic consequences for himself and all Malacians. This is a gripping tale of wonder, lust and destiny.

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time

Published in the USA as ‘Canopy of Time’ The Law of Transience: Nothing is intended to last. So what will happen over the next forty million years? These linked stories take us there, into a far future where our decaying universe is overtaken by a new order of creation. We travel on a masterly journey through time and space, a journey at once eloquent, elegant and disconcerting?

The Saliva Tree

Brian Aldiss marked the centenary year of H G Wells’ birth with this ingenious novella combining comedy, terror and, intriguingly, late nineteenth century period charm. In a sleepy East Anglian town we meet Bruce Fox and Gregory Rolles two young men who have sworn to Think Large in order to distinguish themselves from the mas*ses of Cottersall. When a meteor lands in the pond of a local farm, Gregory seeks the advice of Mr Wells. Nine short stories complete the collection, including the highly autobiographical ‘Girl and Robot With Flowers’, which was taken up as a seminal story demarcating the new SF from the old.

The Moment of Eclipse

The fourteen stories in this mind blowing collection range from outrageous satire to evocative fantasy, revealing the future with an alarming intensity.

Brothers of the Head

Siamese twins, Barry and Tom, have a dormant but sinister third head growing out of Barry’s left shoulder. Plucked from the untamed Norfolk coastline by showbiz entrepreneurs cashing in on their demonically violent and freakish relationship, they form a rock band, The Bang Bang, and taste superstardom. Throughout their jealous battles over the woman in their life and their brutal existence, they are forever accompanied by their ominous companion, who makes increasing demands for its right to life.

Last Orders

Careful selection of what the author considered was his most telling short work from the mid Seventies.

Man in His Time

This collection of SF stories represents thirty years of Brian Aldiss prolific writing life. Including perceptive insights into the Cold War and our mounting knowledge of Mars, Aldiss demonstrates how stories that had a special significance Then can rouse our senses Now, and turns the incredible into the wondrously plausible.

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

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.

Cultural Breaks

This special collection of short stories from Grand Master Brian Aldiss is being issued to coincide with his 80th birthday. Set to include such notable works as ‘Aboard the Beatitude,’ ‘A Man with His Mule,’ and ‘Head,’ the anthology will also feature commentaries from a group of his peers sharing their perspectives on this amazingly talented individual. Often compared to J. G. Ballard, Thomas Disch, and Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss has been referred to as ‘ arguably the most significant English writer of science fiction since H. G. Wells’ by the St. James Guide to Science Fiction. A prolific author, he continues to enthrall his vast fan base and attract first time readers. Known for pushing the envelope and refusing to be confined to a particular style of writing or to specific subjects, his works encompass space exploration, time travel, historical fantasy, and even parodies of Kafka.

A Prehistory of Mind

Award winning SF author Brian Aldiss ventures into new territory with this, his first, full length poetry collection. Named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000, Aldiss authored The Saliva Tree, the Helliconia series, Trillion Year Spree, and Jocasta books beloved to SF lovers everywhere. Three of his works have been adapted to the big screen, including Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence. Whether you’re a current or potential Aldiss fan, you’ll enjoy the range, vigor and intimate self portrait of these poems. This self revealing volume allows readers to: ramble through a Martian desert and other fantastic realms visit the Kremlin, Ulan Bator, a European cafe get a glimpse of Aldiss’ personal life live through the eyes of a volcano witness the terror of war and creation of the world Published here for the first time, on an exclusive basis, is Aldiss’ new short story, ‘Mortistan.’ Experience a different side of Brian Aldiss in this volume soon to be a collectors’ item!

The Shape of Further Things

‘Earth is charged with a beauty we are destroying…
‘ So begins this unique book, in which joy and doom intermingle. It spans one month in the life of Aldiss and his wife Margaret and family, living in the peaceful Oxfordshire countryside. Here’s a tapestry of provocative meditations, theories of dreams, of the Moon as real estate, and the role of technology and pollution in our lives all served up with soup and sausage rolls. Aldiss speaks of ‘The sheer delight of being alive’ and captures that delight here.

Trillion Year Spree (With: David Wingrove)

Britain’s most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the imagination: escape to other dimensions, flights to other planets, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation. Examining the great writers SF has produced, and the images that have become the cultural wallpaper of the present day, this comprehensive expedition is for buffs and tenderfoots alike.

Bury My Heart At W.H.Smith’s

In this fascinating account of the life of a writer, Brian Aldiss reveals with wit and candour his adventures with publishers, booksellers, agents, fellow authors and readers. He shares wry, witty and informative tales, beginning with his first job at the Oxford bookshop that inspired his debut novel, The Brightfount Diaries; and ending with what is without a doubt the most gruelling experience for a writer having a new novel published Forgotten Life.

An Exile on Planet Earth

Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other worlds. His fertile imagination has created intriguing and often shocking narratives which have become classics of the genre and have also translated into cinema. This collection of his essays, most of which are revised for this volume, is a testimony to the influences behind his writing, showing how the circumstances and events of his childhood are translated into strange metaphors in his novels and stories the lonely boy playing on the beach in Walcot, how his identification with the ‘exile’ is a recurring theme throughout his work it is surely no accident that he was asked to write an introduction to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, and how a world without children Greybeard expressed his grief at the temporary loss of his own children after his first marriage broke up. In these writings we witness the main events of Aldiss’s life, and through his honesty and vulnerablity we are able to trace the alliance between incidents in his life and his creative imagination. For the lovers of his many books and poems this volume reveals new insights into the man and his world, giving us a better understanding of his place in the history and literary criticism of science fiction and of his interest in the cultural importance of SF as a genre.

Nebula Awards 2 (With: Harry Harrison)

These stories, first published in 1966, represent an exciting and important time in the history of science fiction the era when SF became true literature. Editors for this volume are BRIAN W. ALDISS and HARRY HARRISON. ALDISS is a prolific award winning author of over two dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, several critical works, and poetry. His latest novels are THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE: OR MY LIFE AS AN ENGLISHMAN and SUPERTOYS. The multiple award winning author of dozens of novels of speculative fiction, HARRISON is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! the basis for the film SOYLENT GREEN, and the alternate history novels STARS & STRIPES FOREVER and STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL. He lives in Ireland. The Secret Place by Richard McKenna ‘ A sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in the pulp years…
‘ Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The memorable classic featuring ‘slow glass’ through which light takes a very long time to travel. Who Needs Insurance? by Robin S. Scott If one can be accident prone, then perhaps one can be ‘safety prone’ but why? Among the Hairy Earthmen by R.A. Lafferty Earth is nothing more than a bloody playground for the children of the gods. The Last Castle by Jack Vance A prime example of one of Vance’s ‘haunting mood possessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response.’ Day Million by Frederik Pohl A very short story ‘jewel like conciseness’ of future love, life, and romance. When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman ‘ A sense of strangeness, more than a bit of human warmth, as well as a good strong whiff of alien strangeness.’ Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Earth proves to be a testing ground for the son of an emperor of a hundred worlds. In the Imagicon by George Henry Smith ‘What good was paradise without something to compare it to? Without a taste of hell from time to time, how could a man appreciate heaven?’ We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Now better know as the story on which film Total Recall was based, the original is a far more subtle questioning of reality. Man In His Time by Brian W. Aldiss The sole survivor of crash landing on Mars returns to Earth, but is 3. 3077 minutes ahead of the rest of the world.

Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own often highly idiosyncratic excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Excellent in all departments Kirkus Reviews, Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best of the year anthologies.

Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent)

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best of year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, ‘essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction.’

Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress)

A perfect match the all time top Nebula Award winner edits this year’s volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year’s Nebula winning fiction, top selections from the ballot including work not collected in other best of the year anthologies and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year’s volume, ‘a must read for both serious and casual SF fans alike.’

Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction: the finest works in the genre each year as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is a thought provoking and entertaining volume of and about science fiction. Editor Gregory Benford speaks of the interaction between science fiction and science over the past century; editors and authors Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, George Zebrowski, David Hartwell, and Bill Warren discuss and disagree about science fiction’s place in the larger literary scene; authors William Tenn and Hal Clement are honored; and award winning stories are presented by Sheila Finch, Jane Yolen, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Haldeman an excerpt from his novel Forever Peace, Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry.

Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson)

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award winning fiction of the year and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction. ‘Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.’ New York Review of Science Fiction

Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman)

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year’s most astounding fiction compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americar bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year’s most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year’s winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman)

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow)

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: The pulse of modern science fiction. New York Times Book Review

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year s award winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett)

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year’s compilation includes stories by: Ursula K. LeGuin Catherine Asaro John Kessel Nina Kiriki Hoffman Harry Harrison, this year’s Grandmaster

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

Third in series, winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents include Introduction: Summation: 1985, essay by Gardner Dozois; The Jaguar Hunter, by Lucius Shepard nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1985 World Fantasy Award; Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; Fermi and Frost, by Frederik Pohl winner, 1986 Hugo Award; Green Days in Brunei, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Snow, by John Crowley nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Fringe, by Orson Scott Card nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler; Sailing to Byzantium, by Robert Silverberg winner, 1985 Nebula Award; nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Solstice, by James Patrick Kelly; Duke Pasquale’s Ring, novella by Avram Davidson; More Than the Sum of His Parts, by Joe Haldeman nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Out of All Them Bright Stars, by Nancy Kress Winner, 1985 Nebula Award; Side Effects, by Walter Jon Williams; The Only Neat Thing to Do, by James Tiptree, Jr. nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; winner, 1986 Locus Poll Award; Dinner in Audoghast, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Under Siege, by George R. R. Martin 1986 Locus Poll Award, 6th Place; Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, by Howard Waldrop nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; A Spanish Lesson, by Lucius Shepard Locus Poll Award, 11th Place; Roadside Rescue, by Pat Cadigan; Paper Dragons, by James P. Blaylock winner, 1986 World Fantasy Award; nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Magazine Section, by R. A. Lafferty; The War at Home, by Lewis Shiner 1986 Locus Poll Award, 21st Place; Rockabye Baby, by S. C. Sykes nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

In The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls ‘the field’s real anthology of record.’ With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions. With the editor’s annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty eight of today’s finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylock, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Reed, Michael Sanwick, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, and many more of tomorrow’s leading imaginations. Gardener Dozois’s summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who’s interested in SF today.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois’s latest volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty five representing the finest offerings in the field. Among the gems included here are: ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully ‘The Island of the Immortals’ by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island ‘Approaching Perimelasma’ by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue ‘Taklamakan’ by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World ‘The Summer Isles’ by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently In addition, there are twenty more stories here by the field’s masters and by up and coming new writers, including: William Barton Stephen Baxter Rob Chilson Tony Daniel Cory Doctorow Greg Egan Jim Grimsley Gwyneth Jones Chris Lawson Tanith Lee Paul J. McAuley Ian McDonald Robert Reed William Browning Spencer Allen Steele Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Cherry Wilder Liz Williams Robert Charles Wilson Completing the collection are Dozois’s insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions. With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

In science fiction’s early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever…
and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as: ‘The Wedding Album’ by David Marusek. In a high tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin…
and it’s often hard to tell who’s on what side. ‘Everywhere’ by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such? ‘Hatching the Phoenix’ by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction’s Grand Masters returns with a star crossing tale of the Heechee the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future. ‘A Hero of the Empire’ by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered. The twenty seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The twenty three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Stephen Baxter, M. Shayne Bell, Rick Cook, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tananarive Due, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Peter F. Hamilton, Earnest Hogan, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Susan Palwick, Severna Park, Alastair Reynolds, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Robert Charles WilsonSupplementing the stories is the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The twenty first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily…
and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:’On K2 with Kanakaredes’ by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. ‘The Human Front’ by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming of age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them and nothing is as it appears to be.’Glacial’ by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Eleanor ArnasonChris BeckettMichael BlumleinMichael CassuttBrenda W. CloughPaul Di FilippoAndy DuncanCarolyn Ives GilmanJim GrimsleySimon IngsJames Patrick KellyLeigh KennedyNancy KressIan R. MacLeodKen MacLeodPaul J. McAuleyMaureen F. McHughRobert ReedAlastair ReynoldsGeoff RymanWilliam SandersDan SimmonsAllen M. SteeleCharles StrossMichael SwanwickHoward WaldropSupplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year’s Best Science Fiction Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year’s best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Best of the Best

For years, The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Contributors include: Stephen Baxter Greg Bear William Bigson Terry Bisson Pat Cadigan Ted Chiang John Crowley Tony Daniel Greg Egan Molly Gloss Eileen Gunn Joe Haldeman James Patrick Kelly John Kessel Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Ian R. MacLeod David Marusek Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Mike Resnick Geoff Ryman William Sander Lucius Shepard Robert Silverberg Brian Stableford Bruce Sterling Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Steven Utley Howard Waldrop Walter Jon Williams Connie Willis Gene WolfeWith work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as:

Beyond the Aquila Rift : Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before or so we think.

Comber : Our world is an ever changing one, and award winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet s fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style.

Audubon in Atlantis : In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct.

The twenty nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelley, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Moles, Derryl Murphy, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Peter Watts, Liz Williams, and Gene Wolfe. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The twenty eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
Cory Doctorow Robert Charles Wilson Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Benjamin Rosenbaum Kage Baker Bruce McAllister Alastair Reynolds Jay Lake Ruth Nestvold Gregory Benford Justin Stanchfield Walter Jon Williams Greg Van Eekhout Robert Reed David D. Levine Paul J. McAuley Mary Rosenblum Daryl Gregory Jack Skillingstead Paolo Bacigalupi Greg Egan Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Ken MacLeod Stephen Baxter Carolyn Ives Gilman John Barnes A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross . And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times. The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Praise for Gardner Dozois and The Year s Best Science Fiction: Twenty sixth Annual Collection: This is a worthy addition to a venerable series. Publishers Weekly’For more than a quarter century, Gardner Dozois’s The Year s Best Science Fiction has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall.’ Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSummation: 2009’Utriusque Cosmi’ Robert Charles Wilson’A Story, With Beans’ Steven Gould’Under The Shouting Sky’ Karl Bunker’Events Preceding The Helvetican Renaissance’ John Kessel’Useless Things’ Maureen F. McHugh’Black Swan’ Bruce Sterling’Crimes and Glory’ Paul J. McAuley’Seventh Fall’ Alexander Irvine’Butterfly Bomb’ Dominic Green’Infinities’ Vandana Singh’Things Undone’ John Barnes’On the Human Plan’ Jay Lake’The Island’ Peter Watts’The Integrity of the Chain’ Lavie Tidhar’Lion Walk’ Mary Rosenblum’Escape To Other Worlds With Science Fiction’ Jo walton’Three Leaves of Aloe’ Rand B. Lee’Mongoose’ Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette’Paradiso Lost’ Albert E. Cowdrey’It Takes Two’ Nicola Griffith’Blocked’ Geoff Ryman’Solace’ James Van Pelt’Act One’ Nancy Kress’Twilight of the Gods’ John C. Wright’Blood Dauber’ Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore’This Wind BLowing, And This Tide’ Damien Broderick’Hair’ Adam Roberts’Before My Last Breath’ Robert Reed’One of our Bast*ards Is Missing’ Paul Cornell’Edison’s Frankenstein’ Chris Roberson’Erosion’ Ian Creasey’Vishnu at the Cat Circus’ Ian McDonaldHonorable Mentions: 2009

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

Third in series, winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents include Introduction: Summation: 1985, essay by Gardner Dozois; The Jaguar Hunter, by Lucius Shepard nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1985 World Fantasy Award; Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; Fermi and Frost, by Frederik Pohl winner, 1986 Hugo Award; Green Days in Brunei, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Snow, by John Crowley nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Fringe, by Orson Scott Card nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler; Sailing to Byzantium, by Robert Silverberg winner, 1985 Nebula Award; nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Solstice, by James Patrick Kelly; Duke Pasquale’s Ring, novella by Avram Davidson; More Than the Sum of His Parts, by Joe Haldeman nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Out of All Them Bright Stars, by Nancy Kress Winner, 1985 Nebula Award; Side Effects, by Walter Jon Williams; The Only Neat Thing to Do, by James Tiptree, Jr. nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; winner, 1986 Locus Poll Award; Dinner in Audoghast, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Under Siege, by George R. R. Martin 1986 Locus Poll Award, 6th Place; Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, by Howard Waldrop nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; A Spanish Lesson, by Lucius Shepard Locus Poll Award, 11th Place; Roadside Rescue, by Pat Cadigan; Paper Dragons, by James P. Blaylock winner, 1986 World Fantasy Award; nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Magazine Section, by R. A. Lafferty; The War at Home, by Lewis Shiner 1986 Locus Poll Award, 21st Place; Rockabye Baby, by S. C. Sykes nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty eight of today’s finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylock, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Reed, Michael Sanwick, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, and many more of tomorrow’s leading imaginations. Gardener Dozois’s summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who’s interested in SF today.

Dangerous Visions 1

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who’s who of 20th century SF: Samuel D. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.

Nebula Awards 35 (2001)

Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is ‘the pulse of modern science fiction’ The New York Times Book ReviewThe Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty fifth year. This edition contains the complete award winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents; a report on the field ‘still inarguably dynamic’ by Gary K. Wolfe; runner up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes’s account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon. In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets.

Mini-Sagas

England’s Daily Telegraph sponsors an annual contest for this unique genre, a sort of prose haiku. A mini saga is a story with a beginning, middle, and end but it can only be fifty words long, exactly try it, it isn’t easy. Herewith are the winning 2001 entries: witty, inventive, provocative, tantalizing mini tales of love, tragedy, religion, horror, the future and other strong contenders as selected by the committee led by the noted SF author, Brian Aldiss, as well as some specially commissioned pieces.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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