The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) (The Brian Aldiss Collection)

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Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part two of four.
This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts.

Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britains most beloved authors. From stories of discordant astronauts, approaching a star-swallowing vortex, to a mother and son, in danger of becoming ever younger when they are captured by an alien race and taken to a world where time runs backward, this book proves once again that Aldiss gifted prose and unparalleled imagination never fail to challenge and delight.
The four books of the 1960s short story collection are must-have volumes for all Aldiss fans, and an excellent introduction to the work of a true master.

THE BRIAN ALDISS COLLECTION INCLUDES OVER 50 BOOKS AND SPANS THE AUTHORS ENTIRE CAREER, FROM HIS DEBUT IN 1955 TO HIS MORE RECENT WORK.

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Aldiss is a magician Sunday Times
The titan of science fiction. Telegraph

Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential and one of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced. Iain M Banks

The best contemporary writer of science fiction. Guardian

One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age the colossus of science fiction
New Yorker

Once again he demonstrates the power of his imagination. Daily Mail

Author Bio

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, many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss Collection. Several of Aldiss books have been adapted for the cinema; his story Supertoys Last All Summer Long was adapted and released as the film AI in 2001. Besides his own writing, Brian has edited numerous anthologies of science fiction and fantasy stories, as well as the magazine SF Horizons. Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society and in 2000 was given the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Aldiss was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2005. He now lives in Oxford, the city in which his bookselling career began in 1947.