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Blood Read(1st Edition)
The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
by Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Brian Aldiss, Vernoica Hollinger, Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1628-8, ISBN: 0-8122-1628-8

"The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect an ..."

Supertoys Last All Summer Long(1st Edition)
And Other Stories of Future Time
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-28061-1, ISBN: 0-312-28061-0

"Blame it on taxes. According to SFWA Grand Master Brian Aldiss, that's the main reason he sold the movie rights to the Pinocchio-android tale "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" to Stanley Kubrick back in 1982. Bound here along with two followup short stories and nine unrelated short pieces from more recent years, "Supertoys" was to be the source material for Kubrick's last movie. Of course, Kubrick died, and then Steven Spielberg inherite ..."

"Radio Times" Guide to Science Fiction(1st Edition)
by Kilmeny Fane-Saunders, Brian Aldiss, Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2001 by Bbc Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-563-53460-0, ISBN: 0-563-53460-5

"Science Fiction has proved to big, big office through the years with movies such as Star Wars and TV shows such as Dr Who bringing the genre to mainstream audiences. The Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction is as comprehensive a tour as you could want into the realms of the fantastic. Covering movies, TV and radio just about every futuristic adventure to ever hit the screens is covered her with entries on over 1,500 movies, 300 TV shows ..."

In The Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman
Stories of Science and Fantasy
by Josef Nesvadba, Brian Aldiss
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1979 by New English Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-450-03389-6, ISBN: 0-450-03389-9

"1st edition paperback, vg+"

Finches of Mars
by Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0213-4, ISBN: 1-5040-0213-X

"Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in “a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery” (Booklist, starred review). Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars represents humankind’s last hope. In six tightly clustered towers on the red planet’s surface, the colonists who have escaped their dying home world ..."

Earthworks
by Brian W. Aldiss
Hardcover, 126 Pages, Published 1972 by New English Library
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ISBN-13: 978-0-450-01141-2, ISBN: 0-450-01141-0

"Essef - Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which J. Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong. Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending the bare, poisond renched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle's world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people stil ..."

Greybeard(Updated)
(S.F. Masterworks)
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Gollancz
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-07113-1, ISBN: 0-575-07113-3

Non-Stop(Updated)
(Millennium SF Masterworks S)
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-1-85798-998-4, ISBN: 1-85798-998-8

The Invention of Happiness(1st Edition)
[hc]
by Brian W. Aldiss
Hardcover, 105 Pages, Published 2013 by Ps Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-84863-672-9, ISBN: 1-84863-672-5

"A new year dawned and I suddenly determined to challenge myself with shortage of time. In brief, I would write a short short story every day in succession. This little book contains some of the results. To be honest (generally a foolish thing for a writer to be) a short written on a Monday requires a Tuesday as well. On Tuesday, you edit, you correct, you knock out ungainly sentences, you amplify . . . for you may suddenly discover a ne ..."

HARM(1st Edition)
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 2007 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-49671-3, ISBN: 0-345-49671-X

Non-Stop
by Brian W. Aldiss
190 Pages, Published 2020 by Open Road Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-6404-0, ISBN: 1-5040-6404-6

"Aldiss’ world is visceral and powerful.” —Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations “Worth reading, and quite a significant contribution to the long SF history of generation ship novels.” —SF Site Praise for Brian W. Aldiss ..."

Hothouse
by Brian W. Aldiss
291 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1035-1, ISBN: 1-5040-1035-3

"The others, all but Driff, were standing now, open-mouthed and anxious. “It's lies, lies!” “No, it is true.” Then she weakened and turned to the five faces anxiously regarding her. “Isn't it true?” Driff, clutching her hurt leg, agreed heartily that it was ."

Affairs At Hampden Ferrers
An English Romance (from the author's own library)
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2004 by Little, Brown
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-72581-1, ISBN: 0-316-72581-1

Seasons in Flight by Brian Wilson Aldiss and Brain W. Aldiss
by Brian Wilson Aldiss, Brain W. Aldiss
Paperback, 157 Pages, Published 1988 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-75704-6, ISBN: 0-441-75704-9

Helliconia Winter(Updated)
3rd in the 'Helliconia' series of books
by Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1985 by Triad Grafton
ISBN-13: 978-0-586-05367-6, ISBN: 0-586-05367-0

The Moment of Eclipse
(Panther Science Fiction)
by Brian W. Aldiss, Brian Wilson Aldiss
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1970 by Panther
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ISBN-13: 978-0-586-03776-8, ISBN: 0-586-03776-4

Eighty Minute Hour, The
by Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 1975 by New York: Leisure Books # 237Zk 1St Printing
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ISBN-13: 978-0-330-24547-0, ISBN: 0-330-24547-3

"An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera!A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera.Quite possibly Aldiss's 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.strangest novel, and t ..."

Walcot
by Brian W. Aldiss, Howard Hughes
Paperback, 534 Pages, Published 2015 by Harpercollins Publishers, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748226-9, ISBN: 0-00-748226-4

"On the glorious sands of the North Norfolk coast, Steve, the youngest member of the Fielding family, plays alone. But are these halcyon days? War is looming, and things will never be the same again."

The Complete Short Stories(1st Edition)
The 1960s (Part 1) (The Brian Aldiss Collection)
by Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Harpervoyager
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-748228-3, ISBN: 0-00-748228-0

"The first collection of Brian Aldiss' short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part one of four. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author's entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work. This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss' complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts. Taken from diverse and often rare sources, ..."

Finches of Mars
by Brian W. Aldiss
202 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0589-0, ISBN: 1-5040-0589-9

"'Very strong on Matisse,' Vladimir commented. 'Yes. But I don't see any ... 'Frankly, I am homesick for such beauty,' said Vladimir. 'Can such glory ever occur ... But we had to come to Mars to meet that something.' This suggested a greater kind ..."

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