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Brian Aldiss

ブライアン・オールディス

Buraian Orudisu

Aliases: Brian W. Aldiss
Pen Names: Jael Cracken（Pseudonym used in mid-1960s）, Dr. Peristyle（Pseudonym used in mid-1960s）, C. C. Shackleton（Pseudonym used in mid-1960s）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1925-08-18 （East Dereham, Norfolk, England）
Died
2017-08-19 （Oxford, England） age 92
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Dereham, Norfolk → Devon → Oxford

Career

Occupations
writer, editor, artist
Active Years
1954-2017
Affiliations
Vice-president of H. G. Wells Society, Co-president of Birmingham Science Fiction Group
Memberships
President of British Science Fiction Association
Influenced By
H. G. Wells, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick
Influenced
J. G. Ballard

Education

West Buckland School
Period: 1939頃
Country: UK
Boarding school during WWII

Awards

Hugo Award
1962
Work: Hothouse
Category: 最優秀短編小説
Organization: World Science Fiction Society
Result: 受賞
Hugo Award
1987
Work: Trillion Year Spree
Category: 最優秀関連作品
Organization: World Science Fiction Society
Result: 受賞
Nebula Award
1965
Work: The Saliva Tree
Category: 最優秀中編小説
Organization: Science Fiction Writers of America
Result: 受賞
SFWA Grand Master
1999
Organization: Science Fiction Writers of America
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
2005
Organization: British Monarchy
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Non-Stop

1958 Science Fiction

Generation ship where inhabitants have regressed to primitivism.

Generation shipPrimitivism

Hothouse

1962 Science Fiction

Far future Earth overrun by giant plants.

Future EarthPlant evolution

Supertoys Last All Summer Long

1969 Science Fiction

Story of an AI toy boy and his human mother, basis for A.I.

AIParent-child love
Adaptations
  • [Film] A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg (2001)

Adaptations

  • Frankenstein Unbound (film)
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (film)
  • Brothers of the Head (film)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
New Wave SFExperimental proseSatire
Recurring Motifs
Future humanityAlien encountersTime slips

Legacy

Grand Master of SFWA, influential in New Wave SF, historian of the genre.

Archives

  • Brian W Aldiss Archive, University of Liverpool

In Popular Culture

  • Known as basis for Spielberg's A.I.

Trivia

  • Wrote stories from age 3
  • Judged mini-saga competitions