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
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
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?
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.
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.
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.
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.