#Brian Aldiss

[science70]

Science Fiction Review magazine #37, April 1970.

Cover art: Jim McLeod

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Brian Aldiss - Billion Year Spree - Corgi Books - 1975

[retroscifiart]

Art by Bruce Pennington for The Dark Light Years by Brian Aldis (NEL, 1971)

[nelc]

Bruce Pennington's cover for Brian Aldiss' The Canopy of Time

[aquitainequeen]

Science fiction is a big muscular horny creature, with a mass of bristling antennae and proprioceptors on its skull. It has a small sister, a gentle creature with red lips and a dash of stardust in her hair. Her name is Space Opera. This volume is dedicated to her. Science fiction is for real. Space opera is for fun. Generally what space opera does is take a few light years, and a pinch of reality and inflate thoroughly with melodrama, dreams and a seasoning of screwy ideas….. 

Brian Aldiss, Space Opera (Introduction)

[elizabethplaid]

name-dropping CS Lewis and Tolkien in this intro

from "Galactic Empires, vol 1", a compilation of short stories, published in 1976.

Introduction and editing by Brian Aldiss. Apologies in advance for not including alt text. I will link back to whoever wants to write it out.

Obviously, I haven't gotten very far into the book yet. But I know how tumblr loves to hear about those two authors, so I had to share.

I'm approaching this genre as an equivalent (or at least parallel) version of bodice ripper stories, aimed at cishet dudes. I get bodice rippers; not expecting high-brow literature to fulfill that need. So now I'm looking for insight as to what readers are seeking when browsing this genre, specifically of this slice of time.

I'm sure there are some good documentaries about the history of sci-fi lit. Seeing as how I can't get through this intro without being distracted, I'm not planning to watch any just yet.

[djohnhopper]

BOTD: The great scifi writer Brian Aldiss, was born today. He wrote, what I consider one of the best slices of the New Wave scifi - Barefoot in the Head (1969). Love this book, a true mindfuck, but so, so, brilliant. Happy 99th Brian!

[guillotineman]

IndieWire Names Steven Spielberg's ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’ Best Film of the 2000s.

[starship-papilio]

I bought some new (old) books! I love them!

1977 compilation of Asimov's early work with an introduction by Asimov

1973 sci-fi story by British author Brian Aldiss called Equator

1931 copy of Tarka the Otter by Henry Williams

Aaaaaaaa, all three for only £6

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #233

Cover by Paul Lehr  --  1960

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https://archive.org/details/ylem-journal-v25i10_12

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Brian Aldiss - An Age - Sphere - 1969

[astanleykubrick]

If you ever wondered what came before Steven Spielberg took over the reins of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, this is the video for you: a chronicle of all the attempts that Kubrick made to invent a story based on Super-Toys: 1) Brian Aldiss, 2) Bob Shaw, 3) Brian Aldiss, 4) Ian Watson, 5) Arthur C. Clarke, 6) Ian Watson, 7) Arthur C. Clarke, 8) Stanley Kubrick, 9) Sara Maitland, 10) Steven Spielberg. Followed by my theory on why the project wasn't made (besides the obvious reason, that is).

The sixth and final episode of my series Cracking the Kube is out now. Enjoy!

[dunne-ias]

Books ordered from this year’s annual national book sale that we have in Sweden every year:

A kid’s book for my second youngest nephew that should be just right for him now that he’s learning to read

A book on yoga

Atomic Habits

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Non-stop, by Brian Aldiss

The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman

The word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Leguin

Järnulven (The Iron Wolf) by Siri Petterson

And once the sale actually starts in the shops, I’m picking up a collection of short stories from Edgar Allan Poe.

[ladythatsmyskull]

Covers for Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.