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| Name: |
Brian W. Aldiss | | Birth Date: |
August 8, 1925 | | Place of Birth: |
East Dereham, Norfolk, United Kingdom | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Editor, Critic, Bookseller |
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Biography of Brian W(ilson) Aldiss
11,231 words, approx. 37 pages
 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...
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Biography of Brian W(ilson) Aldiss
9,180 words, approx. 31 pages
 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...
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Biography of Brian W(ilson) Aldiss
6,363 words, approx. 21 pages
 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...



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Brian Aldiss Quotes
3,682 words, approx. 12 pages
 Brian Wilson Aldiss (born 1925-08-18 ) is an English writer of general fiction and science fiction. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Outside (1955) 1.2 Let's Be Frank (1957) 1.3 Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969) 1.4 The Glass Forest (1986) 1.5 Locus...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Brian Aldiss Information
2,461 words, approx. 8 pages
 Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by SF pioneer H. G....




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 Literature/Film Quarterly
Authorship & "intelligence": Brian Aldiss (1925--)
01/01/2001: 724 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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 Literature/Film Quarterly
Brian Aldiss's Billion Year Spree: An Interview
01/01/2004: 6,281 words, approx. 21 pages "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...
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Robot maker builds artificial boy
9/13/2007: 1,004 words, approx. 3 pages 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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Richard Mathews
4,867 words, approx. 16 pages
 [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 ...
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Critical Essay by Philip E. Smith II
4,851 words, approx. 16 pages
 In the following essay, Smith explains how Aldiss's "Enigma" stories in Last Orders provide insight into his theories of science fiction.
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Critical Review by Rosemary Herbert
1,907 words, approx. 6 pages
 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."


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