Brian Wilson Aldiss , also - Aldis ( Brian Wilson Aldiss ; August 18, 1925 - August 19, 2017 ) - an English writer who gained worldwide fame for his works in the genre of science fiction , in particular, the trilogy " Heliconia " (1982-1985), as well as NF criticism. Laureate of the two most significant literary awards in the field of science fiction - Hugo ( 1962 ) for the short story collection Hothouse [3] and Nebula ( 1965 ) for the story The Saliva Tree (“Salivary Tree”), written to mark the centenary of the birth of Herbert Wells .
| Brian Aldiss | ||
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| Brian aldiss | ||
 Brian Oldiss at the Worldcon 2005 Glasgow Conference | ||
| Birth name | Brian wilson aldiss | |
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| Date of Birth | August 18, 1925 | |
| Place of Birth | East Durham, Norfolk , UK | |
| Date of death | August 19, 2017 (92 years old) | |
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| Citizenship |  United Kingdom | |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet, essayist | |
| Years of creativity | 1954 - 2017 | |
| Direction | fantasy | |
| Genre | science fiction | |
| Language of Works | ||
| Debut | Criminal Record | |
| Awards | Hugo (1962), Nebula (1965) | |
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| brianwaldiss.org | ||
| Artworks on the site Lib.ru | ||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Brian Oldiss was born on August 18, 1925 in East Dereham ( County Norfolk , England ). His father ran a manufactory store opened by his grandfather, and the whole family lived above the store [4] . In 1943, he joined the army, served in the communications forces in Burma and Indonesia .
After World War II, he worked as a book seller in Oxford . In addition to science fiction stories for various magazines, he wrote a series of short plays for booksellers' magazine about life in a fictional bookstore, and they caught the attention of Charles Monteith, editor of the British publishing house Faber and Faber . As a result, The Brightfount Diaries was the first separately published book by Aldiss, a novel in the form of a diary about the life of a sales assistant in a bookstore.
In 1955, The Observer held a contest of short stories that took place in 2500, and Aldiss won with the story "Never for Life" ( English Not for an Age ). “The Brightfount Diaries” was not very successful, and Faber became interested in publishing other works of Aldiss, so in 1957 his science fiction collection “Space, Time and Nathaniel” was published. By this time, his income from writing was equal to his salary in a bookstore, so Oldiss decided to become a professional writer.
In 1960, Aldiss was elected President of the British Science Fiction Association , in 1968 - recognized as the best science fiction writer in the UK, and in 1969 received the Australian Dietmar Award as the most popular modern science fiction author in the world [5] [6] . In 2000, an organization of American science fiction writers elected Oldiss Grandmaster. In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed on the writer the title of Officer of the British Empire for “serving literature” [7] .
In 2001, based on the story by Brian Aldis “ Super-Toys Last All Summer ” ( Super-Toys Last All Summer Long ), the film “Artificial Mind” was shot (directed by Stephen Spielberg ).
Bibliography
- 1958 Non-Stop / Non-Stop (Other Names Starship, Non-Stop, Closed World)
- 1958 Equator [= Vanguard From Alpha]
- 1960 Galaxies like grains of sand (English Like Grains of Sand) Russian translation Valery Lapin KIC "Svarog", 1992
- 1960 Translator / The Interpreter [= Bow Down to Nul, X for Exploitation]
- 1961 The Male Response
- 1961 The Primal Urge
- 1962 The Greenhouse / [Hothouse [= Long Twilight of the Earth , Before the Sunset of the Earth, The Green Afternoon / The Long Afternoon of Earth]
- 1964 Gray Beard / Greybeard
- 1964 Gradgrodd / The Dark Light Years [= On the white strip]
- 1965 Everything Created by the Earth / Earthworks
- 1967 Garden of Time / Cryptozoic! [= An Age]
- 1968 Report on Probability A [Report on Probability A]
- 1969 Barefoot in the Head
- 1970 The Hand-Reared Boy
- 1971 A Soldier Erect
- 1973 Freed Frankenstein Unbound
- 1974 The Eighty Minute Hour
- 1976 Malaysian tapestry / The Malacia Tapestry
- 1977 Brothers of the Head
- 1978 A Rude Awakening
- 1980 Life in the West
- 1980 Moreau's Other Island [= An Island Called Moreau]
- 1982 Spring of Heliconia / [Helliconia Spring]
- 1983 Summer of Helliconia / Helliconia Summer
- 1985 Winter Helliconia / Helliconia Winter
- 1987 The Year before Yesterday
- 1988 Forgotten Life
- 1991 Dracula Unbound
- 1993 Remembrance Day
- 1994 Somewhere East of Life [= Somewhere East of Life: Another European Fantasia]
- 1999 White Mars [= White Mars: or, The Mind Set Free] (co-author Roger Penrose )
- 2002 Super Power
- 2002 The Cretan Teat
- 2004 Oxford Passions / Affairs At Hampden Ferrers
- 2005 Jocasta
- 2005 Sanity and the Lady
- 2007 HARM
- 2009 Walcot
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Roux P. d. Nouveau Dictionnaire des œuvres de tous les temps et tous les pays - 2 - Éditions Robert Laffont , 1994. - Vol. 1. - P. 51. - ISBN 978-2-221-06888-5
- ↑ In Russian translations - “Long Twilight of the Earth”, “Greenhouse”, “Greenhouse”.
- ↑ Andrew Brown. Profile: Brian Aldiss . The Guardian (June 16, 2001). Date of treatment December 17, 2012. Archived December 19, 2012.
- ↑ http://brianaldiss.co.uk/about/awards-citations/ Brian Aldiss. Awards & Citations
- ↑ http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar1969.html 1969 Ditmar Awards on the Locus magazine website
- ↑ The official website of Brian Aldiss (English) . Date of treatment December 7, 2008.
Links
- Aldiss, Brian on the Fantasy Lab website
- Aldiss, Brian in the library of Maxim Moshkov
- Brian Aldiss Spring of Heliconia. Translation - O. Kolesnikov
- Brian Aldiss Summer of Heliconia. Translation - B. Kadnikov, O. Kolesnikov