Ruins by Brian Aldiss (best novels to read txt) 📕

Brian Aldiss OBE was a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. Born in Norfolk in 1925, after leaving the army Aldiss worked as a bookseller which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work, the story ‘Criminal Record’, appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Passing away in 2017, over the course of his life Aldiss wrote nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories – becoming one of the pre-eminent science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Also by Brian Aldiss and published by HarperCollins

Fiction

When the Feast is Finished

Finches of Mars

Report on Probability A

The Malacia Tapestry

The Male Response

Walcot

The Primal Urge

Brothers of the Head

Enemies of the System

Comfort Zone

Eighty Minute Hour

Jocasta: Wife and Mother

The Brightfount Diaries

Super-State

A Chinese Perspective

The Squire Quartet

Life in the West

Forgotten Life

Remembrance Day

Somewhere East of Life

The Horatio Stubbs Trilogy

The Hand-Reared Boy

A Soldier Erect

A Rude Awakening

The Monster Trilogy

Dracula Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

Moreau’s Other Island

Short Story Collections

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950S

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960S (Part 1)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960S (Part 2)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960S (Part 3)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960S (Part 4)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1970S (Part 1)

The Complete Short Stories: The 1970S (Part 2)

Non Fiction

Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s

The Twinkling of an Eye

Collected Essays

This World and Nearer Ones

Pale Shadow of Science

The Detached Retina

And the Lurid Glare of the Comet

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