Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBEis an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He is alsoco-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 August 1925
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.
Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?
The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'