His book Jocasta (2005), is a reworking of Sophocles' classic Theban plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone.Ĭultural Breaks (2006), published to coincide with his eightieth birthday, is a collection of short fictions which includes commentaries on his work by his peers. His story, 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long', was adapted and released as the film AI in 2001. Several of his books, including Frankenstein Unbound (filmed 1990), have been adapted for the cinema. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Home Life with Cats (1992) A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death (2000) and A Prehistory of Mind (2008). Smith's: A Writing Life (1990), The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998) and When the Feast is Finished (1999).

Brian Aldiss's autobiographical fiction includes The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) and A Soldier Erect (1971), and he has also written three volumes of autobiography, Bury My Heart at W. He has also written science fiction criticism, most recently, The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1995), as well as introductions to classic novels including Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1983). He edited SF Horizons: A Magazine of Criticism and Comment with his friend, the science fiction novelist Harry Harrison, and he has edited numerous anthologies, including Introducing SF: A Science Fiction Anthology (1964). His many prize-winning science fiction titles include Hothouse (1962), which won the Hugo Award, The Saliva Tree (1966), which was awarded the Nebula, and Helliconia Spring (1982), which won both the British Science Fiction Association Award and the John W. His first science fiction novel, Non-Stop, was published in 1958 while he was working as literary editor of the Oxford Mail, a post he held between 19. This experience provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), a volume of short stories.

After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller in Oxford for almost a decade.

He was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, and West Buckland School, Devon, and served in the Royal Signals between 19. Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian W(ilson) Aldiss was born on 18 August 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and is the author of more than 75 books.

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