British novelist Brian W. Aldiss is "one of the most important SF writers of the 20th century and a noted mainstream novelist and literary critic as well," according to a contributor to Publishers Wee...
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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 so...
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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 g...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Damon Knight
The failure of most recent s.f. novels to say anything new and important, or even very interesting, makes a novel like Brian W. Aldiss's Vanguard from Alpha, flaw...
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Critical Essay by Richard Mathews
[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 e...
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Critical Essay by Paul Ableman
Enemies of the System is essentially derivative, almost a lash-up of elements from Huxley, Wells, Orwell, anthropological accounts of cargo cults and so on. It does not ...
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Critical Essay by Jeremy Treglown
Enemies of the System has all the easy interest of any cleanly-imagined futurist novel, and effectively juxtaposes its hyper-evolved Biocom tourists with the kangaroo...
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Critical Essay by Lorna Sage
Brian Aldiss is astonishingly prolific, and surprisingly humane and solid. The first characteristic he shares with other science fiction writers …, but the other qu...
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Critical Essay by Jeremy Tambling
[New Arrivals, Old Encounters] will appeal to those who like their fantasies given a dressing of Arnoldian high seriousness. My loss, no doubt, but I am left a little...
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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...
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In the following essay, Smith explains how Aldiss's "Enigma" stories in Last Orders provide insight into his theories of science fiction.
Brian Aldiss writes himself into the last...
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Brian W. Aldiss
Brian W(ilson) Aldiss
