Brian Aldiss: 41 books
Robotics Through Science Fiction
Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence.
This book presents six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence....
Three Types of Solitude
Faber Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Aldiss's first book was published by Faber in 1955.
This...
Lemistry
A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
**Wojciech Orlinski's story 'Stanlemian', translated from the Polish by Danusia Stok, short-listed for the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards.**
Featuring:
Stanislaw Lem, Brian Aldiss, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Annie Clarkson, Dr Sarah Davies, Jacek Dukaj, Prof Steve Furber, Trevor...
by Ramsey Campbell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Brian Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
SARA MAITLAND on NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
SEAN O'BRIEN on EDGAR ALLAN POE
JANE ROGERS on FYODOR DOSTOYEYSKY
BRIAN ALDISS on THOMAS HARDY
MARTIN EDWARDS on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE on ANTON CHEKHOV
ADAM ROBERTS on RUDYARD KIPLING
STEPHEN BAXTER on H.G. WELLS
STUART EVERS on SHERWOOD ANDERSON
ALI...
The Helliconia Trilogy
Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it.
Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system—and the satellite from...
by Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie Willis, Megan Arkenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
THIS WAY TO THE END TIMES: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse, gathers 21 compelling, gripping stories of the not-too-distant demise of the earth as we know it. And what a collection. From little-known, brilliant tales by sci-fi legends Jules Vernes and Olaf Stapledon, to intense short works by sci-fi masters...
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The sci-fi author behind Steven Spielberg’s A.I. shares his thoughts on the present, the future, and his own work and life.
“We are infinitely rich, yet we mess about with penny-in-the-slot machines,” writes Brian W. Aldiss in this autobiographical work written over the course of one month....
The Saliva Tree
And Other Strange Growths
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Invisible aliens invade the bucolic English countryside in Brian W. Aldiss’s Nebula Award–winning science fiction novella, plus nine other stories of the fantastic and the odd
A meteor shower in the skies above the rolling English countryside late in the nineteenth century fires the imagination...
The Squire Quartet
Life in the West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day, and Somewhere East of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Four loosely linked realistic novels from “one of Britain’s most accomplished and versatile writers” (The Guardian).
A Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction writer, British novelist Brian W. Aldiss also regularly “returned to earth with distinction,” penning realistic works,...
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remain
Millions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning—and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among...
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Third in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss challenged readers’...
by Brian W. Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Fourth in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
Architectural historian Roy Burnell has been tasked with traveling the globe and listing architectural gems in danger of being destroyed....
White Mars; or, The Mind Set Free
A 21st-Century Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction’s most renowned authors
In the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically...
Super-State
A Novel of a Future Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A wildly satirical look at life—and death—in the near-future, not-quite-unified superstate that was once the continent of Europe
Welcome to the future European Super-State—one continent united into a not-quite-homogenous whole. Numerous historic happenings and technological advances have...