`Aldiss is a magician' Sunday Times

`The titan of science fiction.' Telegraph

`Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential - and one of the best - SF writers Britain has ever produced.' Iain M Banks

`The best contemporary writer of science fiction.' Guardian

`One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age... the colossus of science fiction'
New Yorker

`Once again he demonstrates the power of his imagination.' Daily Mail

Brian Aldiss, OBE, was a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. 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. Passing away in 2017, over the course of his life Aldiss wrote nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories - becoming one of the pre-eminent science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st century.