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- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Author Record # 131
- Legal Name: Aldiss, Brian Wilson
- Birthplace: East Dereham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Birthdate: 18 August 1925
- Deathdate: 19 August 2017
- Language: English
- Webpages: brianaldiss.co.uk, csfdb.cn, IMDB, liverpool.ac.uk, SFE, Twitter, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names:
Brian Aldiss, Brian Wilson Aldiss, Brian Aldiss, O.B.E., , , Jael Cracken, Brajan Oldis, , Dr. Peristyle, John Runciman, C. C. Shackleton
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Note: Served in the Royal Signal Corp in Burma and Sumatra during WWII. Afterward he worked as an assistant in a bookshop, and began writing fiction about the book trade, which was later collected in The Brightfount Diaries. He became editor of the The Oxford Mail in 1958, and was the first President of the British Science Fiction Association. Aldiss became closely aligned with the British New Wave in the mid 60's, while establishing himself as an important SF anthologist and critic.
- Author Tags:
science fiction (58), first person point of view (7), time travel (6), recursive sf (NESFA index) (5), climate change (5), aliens (5), fantasy (5), dystopia (4), interstellar travel (4), satire (4), far future (4), mars (4), contemporary (4), immortality (4), art (3), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (3), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (3), england (3), generation ship (3), seasons (3) and 277 additional tags. View all tags for Brian W. Aldiss
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