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This Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse

By Brian W. Aldiss (contributor)

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9781941110478 | Three Rooms Pr, October 25, 2016, cover price $19.95

Forgotten Life

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497638907 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $10.99

Remembrance Day

Product Description: Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction...read more

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9781497638914 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media, August 5, 2014), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W.

Earthworks

Product Description: In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and overâfarming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Exâconvict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637603 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 5, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and overâfarming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil.

Helliconia Summer

Product Description: Winner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for more than fifty years, continued to challenge readersâ minds with literate, thoughtâprovoking, and inventive fiction...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637641 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 5, 2014), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Winner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W.

Dark Light Years

Product Description: What would intelligent lifeâforms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utodâ intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no painâmankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637597, titled "The Dark Light Years" | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: What would intelligent lifeâforms on another planet look like?

Greybeard

Product Description: After the "Accident," all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties...read more

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9781497637627 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: After the "Accident," all males on Earth become sterile.

Helliconia Spring

Product Description: The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and Science Fiction Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637634 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and Science Fiction Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons.

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

Product Description: In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637610 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W.

The Shape of Further Things

Product Description: "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. From his Oxfordshire home, he ruminates on dreams, education, the role of technology in our lives, the rise and function of science fiction, and a variety of other topics...read more

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9781497637665 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: "We are infinitely rich, yet we mess about with penny-in-the-slot machines," writes Brian W.

Cryptozoic!

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637580 | Ingram Pub Services, August 5, 2014, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W.

Helliconia Winter

Product Description: Winner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for more than fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought provoking, and inventive fiction...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781497637658 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 5, 2014), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Winner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W.

Songs from the Steppes: the Poems of Makhtumkuli

Product Description: An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations. Song from the Steppes is the collected poems of Makhtumkuli, eighteenth century poet-hero of Turkmenistan. In this book, Aldiss renders prose translations made by Dr Youssef Azemoun, an expert on Turkic languages and literature, from the original into verse...read more

By Brian Aldiss

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9780007482757 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 5, 2014, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

Eighty Minute Hour

By Brian Aldiss

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9780007482443, titled "Eighty-minute Hour" | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 24, 2013, cover price $16.90

Finches of Mars

Product Description: In this thoughtful meditation on the future of humanity, colonists on Mars struggle to prevent their own extinction Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9780007478927 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 6, 2013, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp.

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9781504002134 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 4, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In this thoughtful meditation on the future of humanity, colonists on Mars struggle to prevent their own extinction Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp.

El momento del eclipse/ The eclipse time

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9788445073674 | Minotauro Ediciones Avd, July 30, 2005, cover price $8.95

El tapiz de Malacia/ The tapestry of Malaysia

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9788445074664 | Minotauro Ediciones Avd, July 30, 2005, cover price $13.95

Super-state: A Novel of a Future Europe

'Super-State' is the Europe of 40 years' time where, despite technological advancement, the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists and a subversive group, the 'Insanatics', is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population.

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9781841491448 | Gardners Books, May 2, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: 'Super-State' is the Europe of 40 years' time where, despite technological advancement, the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists and a subversive group, the 'Insanatics', is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population.

The Twinkling of an Eye

The autobiography of Brian Aldiss, writer and critic of general and science fiction. Born in 1925 in Norfolk, Aldiss served in the army in India and Burma during the war. Returning to England, he worked in a bookshop, became a reviewer, columnist and writer. He also had a brush with Hollywood and experienced psychoanalysis.

By Brian Wilson Aldiss

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9780751528718 | New edition (Gardners Books, November 4, 1999), cover price $16.10 | About this edition: The autobiography of Brian Aldiss, writer and critic of general and science fiction.

Helliconia Winter Tr

By Brian Wilson Aldiss

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9780425089941 | Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 1986, cover price $6.95

Helliconia Summer Tr

Product Description: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction

By Brian Wilson Aldiss

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9780425073681 | Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1984, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction

Space Odysseys

Product Description: Space Odysseys

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9780425036815 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1978, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Space Odysseys

Space Opera

Product Description: Anthology of great space opera. First paperback publication. Introduction, Foreword (Is Everything an Illusion?) and Afterword (Envoi) by the editor, and these stories: Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead (1972) by Robert Sheckley; Honeymoon in Space (excerpt) [Stories of Other Worlds] (1975) by George Griffith; Tonight the Sky Will Fall (1952) by Daniel F...read more

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9780425033449 | Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1977, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Anthology of great space opera.

No Time Like Tomorrow

Product Description: Signet, 1959. Mass market paperback. Collection of 12 original science fiction tales by Mr. Aldiss, who was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004.

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9780451069696 | Roc, April 20, 1976, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: Signet, 1959.

9780451016836 | Signet, April 1, 1971, cover price $0.35 | About this edition: Signet, 1959.

9780451046055 | Roc, April 1, 1971, cover price $0.75 | About this edition: Signet, 1971 [not stated].

Best Sf 1973

Product Description: Berkley Medallion, 1974. Mass market paperback, 1st edition. Best stories from 1973; includes outstanding stories by Robert Sheckley, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe and many more. Also includes essays by the editors.

By Brian W. Aldiss

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9780425025819 | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1974, cover price $0.95 | About this edition: Berkley Medallion, 1974.

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