Man in His Time: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss

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Twenty-two classic science fiction stories spanning the first three decades of the Science Fiction Grand Master&’s career. Features &“Super-Toys Last All Summer,&” the short story that inspired the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. &“Britain&’s most versatile and durable and consistently most interesting science-fiction writer presents his own personal &‘best of&’: 22 splendid tales. . . . To Aldiss, the human dimension has always been more important than hardware or fireworks—which is why his best stories have a timeless quality weaving intelligence, emotion, and inventiveness.&” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Brian W. Aldiss was a science fiction author &“in competition with no one but himself&” (The New York TimesBook Review). In this collection he shows why, offering up twenty-two stories from the first three decades of his career, encompassing a stunning range of ideas, moods, and styles. In the title story we find a man, recently back from an expedition in space, who lives 3.3077 minutes in the future. A meteor shakes things up in a quiet English town in &“The Saliva Tree,&” an homage to H. G. Wells, and which earned Aldiss the Nebula Award in 1965. A giant lizard-like alien comes to Earth in &“Heresies of the Huge God,&” and while some believe it is a monster, others worship it. A mother tries to connect with her son through the help of a robot intermediary in &“Super-Toys Last All Summer.&” Unhappy with the state of his life, a man ventures back in time to hunt dinosaurs in &“Poor Little Warrior!&” Robots have an existential crisis in &“Who Can Replace a Man?&” and men travel to Mars to take a picture of the planet&’s tallest volcano in &“The Difficulties in Photographing Nix Olympica.&” Although the stories in this collection were originally published in the 1950s,&’60s, &’70s, and &’80s, they remain just as gripping today. Each conveys a fascinating idea for readers to ponder, and together, they make a perfect introduction to one of British science fiction&’s greatest authors.
Copyright:
1988

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ISBN-13:
9798337200590
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Open Road Media
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Brian W. Aldiss
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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