Brian W. Aldiss is a prolific, inventive, and highly skilled writer who escapes easy definition. He is still best known as a science-fiction writer and has garnered all the top awards of the genre. He has also produced a substantial corpus of realistic...

Brian Aldiss writes with zest and aplomb, embracing polarities and contradictions that have fractured other careers. Equally at home writing the most extravagant science fiction and the most earthy social comedy, as comfortable with short stories as...

Brian W. Aldiss has led a long, successful life as author, critic, bon vivant, world traveler, and raconteur. He has also, by his own example, been a key figure in leading science fiction out of its ghetto and transforming it into a serious literary...

The author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Kubrick-- Spielberg film, A.I., is a distinguished science fiction writer, critic, and anthologist. A superb stylist and a socially committed thinker, Aldiss is a product of the "New Age" of science...

"This making and unmaking of ideas doth very properly denominate the mind active...." Bishop Berkeley's challenge to the creative imagination, written in the eighteenth century, is appended to Brian W. Aldiss's most recent collection of essays, The Detached Retina: Aspects of Science Fiction...

David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can...

[Aldiss] finds the boundaries of simple popularity a limitation, and clearly wishes to venture beyond these limits into the uncharted waters of the experimental and esoteric. Like any prophet, or any writer, he is concerned with the language he uses to communicate—with words that shift and play games, with words that challenge and reveal. Committed to growth and change, he also steadfastly and painfully insists on examining his own nature, his moral stature, and his place in the universe. (p. 4) [In ...

In the following essay, Smith explains how Aldiss's "Enigma" stories in Last Orders provide insight into his theories of science fiction.

In the following analysis of The Pale Shadow of Science and Seasons in Flight, Herbert praises Aldiss's writing, which she characterizes as "exciting, mature, insightful, and filled with welcome surprises."