Order of Brian Aldiss Books
Brian W. Aldiss (1925-2017) was an English author of science fiction novels and short stories. Aldiss grew up reading the works of H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein and eventually Philip K. Dick. Prior to becoming an author, he served in the Royal Signals in World War II (where he saw action). Following the war, he worked as a bookseller. During this time, he wrote short stories for a trade journal, which got the attention of an editor at Faber and Faber. His career was decorated with such awards and accolades as being named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, being inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Brian Aldiss debuted as a novelist in 1954 with the novel Starswarm. Below is a list of Brian Aldiss’ books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Horatio Stubbs Books
| The Hand-Reared Boy | (1970) |    |
| A Soldier Erect | (1971) | |
| A Rude Awakening | (1978) | |
Publication Order of The Squire Quartet Books
| Life in the West | (1980) | |
| Forgotten Life | (1988) | |
| Remembrance Day | (1993) | |
| Somewhere East of Life | (1994) | |
Publication Order of Helliconia Books
| Helliconia Spring | (1982) | |
| Helliconia Summer | (1983) | |
| Helliconia Winter | (1985) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Starswarm | (1954) | |
| The Brightfount Diaries | (1955) | |
| Non-Stop / Starship | (1958) | |
| Vanguard From Alpha | (1959) | |
| Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter | (1960) | |
| Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth | (1961) | |
| The Male Response | (1961) | |
| The Primal Urge | (1961) | |
| Dark Light Years | (1964) | |
| Greybeard | (1964) | |
| Earthworks | (1965) | |
| Cryptozoic! / An Age | (1967) | |
| A Report on Probability | (1968) | |
| Barefoot in the Head | (1969) | |
| Neanderthal Planet | (1969) | |
| Frankenstein Unbound | (1973) | |
| The Eighty-Minute Hour | (1974) | |
| Enemies of the System | (1978) | |
| Moreau's Other Island | (1980) | |
| An Island Called Moreau | (1980) | |
| Tales from the Planet Earth | (1986) | |
| The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical | (1987) | |
| Ruins | (1988) | |
| Sex and the Black Machine | (1988) | |
| Dracula Unbound | (1990) | |
| White Mars / The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia | (1999) | |
| The Cretan Teat | (2001) | |
| Super State | (2002) | |
| Affairs At Hampden Ferrers | (2004) | |
| Jocasta | (2005) | |
| Sanity and the Lady | (2005) | |
| Harm | (2007) | |
| Walcot | (2009) | |
| Finches of Mars | (2012) | |
| Comfort Zone | (2013) | |
| The Malacia Tapestry | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Space, Time and Nathaniel | (1957) | |
| No Time Like Tomorrow | (1959) | |
| Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time | (1959) | |
| The Airs of Earth | (1963) | |
| The Saliva Tree | (1966) | |
| Who Can Replace a Man? | (1966) | |
| Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories | (1969) | |
| The Moment of Eclipse | (1970) | |
| Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss | (1972) | |
| Equator | (1973) | |
| Brothers of the Head | (1977) | |
| Last Orders | (1977) | |
| Pile | (1979) | |
| New Arrivals, Old Encounters | (1979) | |
| Foreign Bodies | (1981) | |
| Farewell to a Child | (1982) | |
| Seasons in Flight | (1984) | |
| A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories | (1986) | |
| The Magic of the Past | (1987) | |
| Science Fiction Blues | (1988) | |
| Man in His Time | (1989) | |
| At the Caligula Hotel | (1995) | |
| The Secret of This Book / Common Clay | (1995) | |
| The God Who Slept With Women | (1995) | |
| Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time | (2001) | |
| The Dark Sun Rises | (2002) | |
| Cultural Breaks | (2005) | |
| A Prehistory of Mind | (2008) | |
| Mortal Morning | (2011) | |
| The Invention of Happiness | (2013) | |
| Songs from the Steppes | (2014) | |
| The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s | (2015) | |
| The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) | (2015) | |
| The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Best SF Anthologies
(with Harry Harrison)
| Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 | (1969) | |
| Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 | (1970) | |
| Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 | (1971) | |
| Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 | (1972) | |
| Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 | (1976) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Shape of Further Things | (1970) | |
| Billion Year Spree | (1973) | |
| Science Fiction Art | (1975) | |
| This World and Nearer Ones | (1979) | |
| Pale Shadow of Science | (1986) | |
| Trillion Year Spree | (1986) | |
| And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography | (1986) | |
| The Detached Retina | (1988) | |
| Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's | (1990) | |
| Home Life With Cats | (1992) | |
| When The Feast Is Finished | (1994) | |
| The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman | (1998) | |
| Art After Apogee | (2000) | |
| Plutonian Monologue | (2000) | |
| The Starry Messenger | (2006) | |
| An Exile on Planet Earth | (2012) | |
| The Twinkling of an Eye | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Decade Books
(with Harry Harrison)
| Decade: The 1950s | (1976) | |
| Decade: The 1960s | (1977) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of Nebula Awards Books
| Nebula Awards 1 | (1966) | |
| Nebula Awards 2 | (1966) | |
| Nebula Awards 3 | (1968) | |
| Nebula Awards 4 | (1968) | |
| Nebula Awards 5 | (1969) | |
| Nebula Awards 6 | (1971) | |
| Nebula Awards 7 | (1972) | |
| Nebula Awards 8 | (1973) | |
| Nebula Awards 9 | (1974) | |
| Nebula Awards 10 | (1975) | |
| Nebula Awards 11 | (1976) | |
| Nebula Awards 14 | (1980) | |
| Nebula Awards 15 | (1981) | |
| Nebula Awards 16 | (1982) | |
| Nebula Awards 17 | (1983) | |
| Nebula Awards 19 | (1984) | |
| Nebula Awards 20 | (1985) | |
| Nebula Awards 21 | (1985) | |
| Nebula Awards 22 | (1988) | |
| Nebula Awards 23 | (1989) | |
| Nebula Awards 24 | (1990) | |
| Nebula Awards 26 | (1992) | |
| Nebula Awards 27 | (1993) | |
| Nebula Awards 28 | (1994) | |
| Nebula Awards 29 | (1995) | |
| Nebula Awards 30 | (1996) | |
| Nebula Awards31 | (1997) | |
| Nebula Awards 33 | (1999) | |
| Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | |
| Nebula Awards 36 (2002) | (2002) | |
| Nebula Awards 37 (2003) | (2003) | |
| Nebula Awards 38 (2004) | (2004) | |
| Nebula Awards 39 (2005) | (2005) | |
| Nebula Awards 40 (2006) | (2006) | |
| Nebula Awards 42 (2008) | (2008) | |
| Nebula Awards 43 (2009) | (2009) | |
| Nebula Awards 44 (2010) | (2010) | |
| Nebula Awards 45 (2011) | (2011) | |
| Nebula Awards 46 (2012) | (2012) | |
| Nebula Awards 47 (2013) | (2013) | |
| Nebula Awards 50 (2016) | (2016) | |
| Nebula Awards 51 (2017) | (2017) | |
| Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | (2018) | |
| Nebula Awards 53 (2019) | (2019) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of The Year's Best Science Fiction Anthology Books
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection | (1983) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection | (1986) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection | (1987) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection | (1991) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection | (1992) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection | (1993) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection | (1995) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection | (1997) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (1999) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2000) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | (2005) | |
| The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | (2005) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection | (2007) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection | (2008) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection | (2008) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | (2010) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection | (2013) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection | (2013) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection | (2014) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection | (2015) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | (2016) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | (2017) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of The Year's Best Science Fiction Books
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection | (1988) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection | (1989) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | (2005) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | (2007) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection | (2008) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection | (2008) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection | (2009) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection | (2012) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection | (2015) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | (2018) | |
| Anthology series.Numerous authors. | ||
Publication Order of Andromeda Books
(with George R.R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Holdstock, Bob Shaw, , Christopher Priest)
| Andromeda 1 | (1976) | |
| Andromeda: An Original SF Anthology | (1976) | |
| Andromeda 2 | (1977) | |
| Andromeda 3 | (1978) | |
Publication Order of Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books
(with , Felix C. Gotschalk, Lisa Tuttle, Lucius Shepard, Dan Simmons, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Jonathan Carroll, Paul Di Filippo, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Kadrey, Pat Murphy, Marta Randall)
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 | (1988) | |
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two | (1989) | |
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three | (1990) | |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
| Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction | (1978) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction | (1979) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders | (1983) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | |
| Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | |
| Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Valentines | (1999) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | |
| Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Penguin science fiction | (1961) | |
| Best fantasy stories | (1962) | |
| More Penguin Science Fiction | (1963) | |
| Introducing Science Fiction | (1967) | |
| Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus | (1968) | |
| Backdrop of Stars | (1968) | |
| The Inner Landscape | (1969) | |
| Dangerous Visions 1 | (1969) | |
| The Astounding Analog Reader | (1972) | |
| The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two | (1973) | |
| The Astounding Analog Reader, Book 2 | (1973) | |
| Factions | (1974) | |
| Space Odysseys | (1974) | |
| Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | (1974) | |
| Decade: The 1940's | (1975) | |
| Evil Earths | (1975) | |
| Hell's Cartographers | (1975) | |
| Andromeda 1 | (1976) | |
| Galactic Empires 2 | (1976) | |
| Beyond Tomorrow | (1976) | |
| Perilous Planets | (1980) | |
| The Book of Mini-Sagas | (1985) | |
| Tales From the Forbidden Planet | (1987) | |
| The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 | (1988) | |
| Gaslight & Ghosts | (1988) | |
| The Book of Mini-Sagas 2 | (1988) | |
| Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold | (1988) | |
| Dark Fantasies | (1989) | |
| The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 | (1989) | |
| The Ultimate Frankenstein | (1991) | |
| Now We Are Sick | (1991) | |
| Dante's Disciples | (1991) | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1994) | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995 | (1995) | |
| New Worlds 1 | (1996) | |
| New Worlds No. 221 | (1996) | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 | (1997) | |
| Mini Sagas 1999 | (1999) | |
| Nebula Awards 35 (2001) | (2001) | |
| Mini-Sagas | (2002) | |
| Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | (2006) | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 2006 | (2006) | |
| Catastrophia | (2010) | |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | |
| xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths | (2013) | |
| Four For Fantasy | (2013) | |
| Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | |
Notes: Bow Down to Nul was also titled The Interpreter. Hothouse is also known as The Long Afternoon of Earth. Cryptozoic! was also published as An Age. White Mars, co-authored by Roger Penrose, was also published as The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia. Tales from the Planet Earth is a collaborative novel, written with several other authors.
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand is also known as The Canopy of Time. Comic Inferno is also known as The Book of Brian Aldiss. The Inner Landscape also has stories by J.G. Ballard and Mervyn Peake. The Secret of This Book is also known as Common Clay. Four for Fantasy also has stories by Joanne Harris, Joe Hill and Richard Christian Matheson.
All Best SF anthologies, both Astounding-Analog Reader anthologies, Nebula Award Stories 2, Farewell, Fantastic Venus! (aka All About Venus), Decade the 1940’s, Decade the 1950’s and Decade the 1960’s were co-edited with Harry Harrison. Each Best SF anthology was alternately titled The Year’s Best Science Fiction [#] (ie. The Year’s Best Science Fiction 1 for Best SF: 1967).
Trillion Year Spree was co-authored by David Wingrove. When The Feast is Finished was written alongside Margaret Aldiss.
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