Brian Aldiss

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Produktbeschreibung

FRONT COVER
'The godfather of British science fiction' Sunday Times
BACK COVER
'Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential - and one of the best - science fiction writers Britain has ever produced' Iain M. Banks
In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world's pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of subjects including Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the work of Philip K Dick, Salvador Dali, Marry Shelley and Frankenstein, James Blish, H.P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, Astounding Science Fiction magazine and SF's relationship to science and literature in general.
The Brian Aldiss Collection includes over 50 books spanning the author's entire career, from his debut back in 1955 to his more recent work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007482313
• Artikelnr.: 39526667

Autorenporträt

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story 'Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.