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) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Soldier Erect | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Rude Awakening | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Squire Quartet Books
Life in the West | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Forgotten Life | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Remembrance Day | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Somewhere East of Life | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Helliconia Books
(with Maxim Jakubowski)
Helliconia Spring | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Helliconia Summer | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Helliconia Winter | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Space, Time and Nathaniel | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
No Time Like Tomorrow | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Airs of Earth | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Saliva Tree | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Who Can Replace a Man? | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Moment of Eclipse | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Equator | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brothers of the Head | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Last Orders | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Pile | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Arrivals, Old Encounters | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Foreign Bodies | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Farewell to a Child | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Seasons in Flight | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magic of the Past | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Science Fiction Blues | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Man in His Time | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
At the Caligula Hotel | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Secret of This Book / Common Clay | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The God Who Slept With Women | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Dark Sun Rises | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cultural Breaks | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Prehistory of Mind | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mortal Morning | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Invention of Happiness | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Songs from the Steppes | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Best SF Anthologies
Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Shape of Further Things | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Billion Year Spree | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Science Fiction Art | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
This World and Nearer Ones | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Pale Shadow of Science | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Trillion Year Spree | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Detached Retina | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Home Life With Cats | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
When The Feast Is Finished | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Art After Apogee | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Plutonian Monologue | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Starry Messenger | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
An Exile on Planet Earth | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Twinkling of an Eye | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Chinese Perspective | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A New (Governmental) Father Christmas | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Andromeda Books
(with George R.R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Holdstock, Michael G. Coney, Peter Weston)
Andromeda 2 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Andromeda 3 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books
(with Howard Waldrop, Felix C. Gotschalk, Lisa Tuttle, Lucius Shepard, Dan Simmons, Jonathan Carroll, Paul Di Filippo, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Kadrey, Marta Randall, John Clute, David S. Garnett)
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Penguin Science Fiction | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best Fantasy Stories | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
More Penguin Science Fiction | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Eighth Galaxy Reader | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales of Unease | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Award Stories #2 | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Introducing Science Fiction | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Backdrop of Stars | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Inner Landscape | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dangerous Visions 1 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
On Our Way to the Future | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nova 1 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
SF Authors' Choice 2 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Science Against Man | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Astounding Analog Reader | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
This Side of Infinity | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Alpha 3 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The 6th Annual Best SF 72 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Factions | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Space Odysseys | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Decade: The 1940's | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Worlds Nine | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Writings in SF 27 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evil Earths | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hell's Cartographers | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Worlds 6 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Antigrav | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Andromeda 1 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Decade: The 1950s | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galactic Empires 2 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Beyond Tomorrow | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Decade: The 1960s | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Perilous Planets | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Winter's Tales 26 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Book of Mini-Sagas | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales From the Forbidden Planet | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Gaslight & Ghosts | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Book of Mini-Sagas 2 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Drabble Project | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark Fantasies | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ultimate Frankenstein | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Now We Are Sick | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Amis Story Anthology | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Invaders! | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Worlds 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Worlds No. 221 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mini Sagas 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Year's Best SF 5 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 35 (2001) | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mini-Sagas | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Catastrophia | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
xo Orpheus | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Four For Fantasy | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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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