Brian Aldiss is a science fiction writer and historian, mainstream novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist and critic
June 2013
Brian Aldiss: my life in book covers – in pictures
The veteran author Brian Aldiss says that his latest book, Finches of Mars, will be his last science-fiction novel. Here he looks back on a career which has spanned more than six decades
December 2011
Kepler 22-b? I was there first
Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss: Helliconia, the new Earth I imagined 30 years ago, has now been located by Nasa just a few light years away
May 2011
The Saturday poem
Being a Little Well
By Brian Aldiss
November 2007
Our science fiction fate
Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss: The planet's dire state makes the imaginative leaps of dystopian SF writers redundant
October 2006
My guide to old age
Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss: If you can avoid it, don't become 80. But the alternative, remember, is a good deal worse.
September 2006
A bad dream come true
Brothers of the Head - the 1977 novel about conjoined twins who are exploited as a pop act - has now been made into a film. The book's author, Brian Aldiss, gives his verdict, and remembers his moment of inspiration.
July 2006
The sky's no limit
As a new exhibition explores how artists - from William Blake to John Cage - have portrayed visions of the universe, science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss speculates on civilisations of the future.
