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The first in a six volume collection of all of Aldiss's short stories. This features his first story, which was published in "The Bookseller" in 1954 and never seen again until now. Aldiss is s giant of British science fiction.

Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss was born in 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and is the author of more than seventy-five books. He lives in Oxford and was awarded an OBE in 2005 for Services to Literature.

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Two more collections of Brian Aldiss's short stories, gathered together for the first time, including stories previously only available in magazines.

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 three of four.

Including the story that's the basis for the forthcoming Stanley Kubrick/Steven Spielberg film "A.I"., coming to theaters nationwide June 2001, this collection features the full "Supertoys" cycle of three stories plus another 11 tales of the future.

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Part Two of the complete Aldiss Short Stories from the 1970s. A must-have for collectors, reissued as part of the Brian Aldiss Collection.

Controversial and brilliant, Report on Probability A is a claustrophobic and terrifying novel that examines the politics of surveillance and ownership. The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author's entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.

BRIAN ALDISS - THE CRETAN TEATThe Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of a randy but unfortunate author who becomes a character in his own novel, this clever novel, which smacks ...

THE CRETAN TEATA profound story about history, blame, corruption, obsession, sex, the novelist and growing old disgracefully - The Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of a randy ...

Großbritannien in naher Zukunft: Der Krieg gegen den Terror hat aus dem Land einen Polizeistaat gemacht, in dem ein kafkaeskes Ministerium Bürger muslimischer Herkunft nach Belieben verhaften und foltern kann. Fadhil Abbas Ali gerät in die Fänge dieser Organisation und wird in ein Gefängnis gesteckt, dessen Vorbild Guantanamo nicht zu übersehen ist. Unter der Folter entwickelt er eine Persönlichkeitsstörung und flieht im Geiste auf den fernen ...

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Brian Aldiss is a distinguished science fiction writer and was made Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000. In the sixties he originated the three science-fiction anthologies which combined to form THE PENGUIN SCIENCE FICTION OMNIBUS (1973). Aldiss was awarded an OBE in 2005 for his services to literature. He lives in Oxford.

England's Daily Telegraph sponsors an annual contest for this unique genre, a sort of prose haiku. A mini-saga is a story with a beginning, middle, and end but it can only be fifty words long, exactly (try it, it isn't easy). Herewith are the winning 2001 entries: witty, inventive, provocative, tantalizing mini tales -- of love, tragedy, religion, horror, the future -- and other strong contenders as selected by the committee led by the noted S...