The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s
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Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss had a career spanning sixty years. Although he is a well-known author of the 1960s and '70s British New Wave style of science fiction, Aldiss's career as a science fiction writer began in the 1950s.
offers the full catalog of Aldiss's stories from his first decade as an author. This volume starts off with his first professional sale, "A Book in Time"—about a bookseller chasing a thief one hundred years into the future—and finishes off with a group of strangers forming a peculiar bond in "Three's a Cloud." By the end of the decade, Aldiss had established himself as a major new voice in science fiction. Together the fifty-eight stories in this retrospective collection offer a look at the burgeoning writer before he became a literary legend.
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About Brian W. Aldiss
Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award‑winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three‑volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four‑volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as
and
; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (
, later revised and expanded as
). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was “Super‑Toys Last All Summer Long,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick’s death by Steven Spielberg as
. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.
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