*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we turn to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category, listing the works of Brian Aldiss, both as writer and editor. Aldiss was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, with a very versatile style and a great body of work written over several decades. My personal favourites featured here are Earthworks (a future dystopia where a haunted man is persuaded to take the only course of action that may fix things), The Eighty Minute Hour (pure space opera, quite literally as the characters sing), Greybeard (a future sterile planet populated by the old), and Report On Probability A (worlds within alternate worlds). All ingenious. There is one new item edited by Aldiss: the first volume of his anthology Penguin Science Fiction, with classic stories.
PICTURED: ALL BY BRIAN ALDISS
EARTHWORKS Four Square 1967 1st UK PB VG £4
THE EIGHTY-MINUTE HOUR Pan 1975 1st UK PB GD £2.50
GREYBEARD Panther 1972 UK PB GD £5
REPORT ON PROBABILITY A Sphere 1977 UK PB VG £3
(Editor) PENGUIN SCIENCE FICTION Penguin 1961 1st UK PB VG £5