“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Forrás: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE angol író, sci-fi-író, a H. G. Wells Society alelnöke.
A második világháború után kezdett novellákat írni, első könyve 1955-ben jelent meg. 1958-ban a World Science Fiction Convention-on a legígéretesebb új szerző díját kapta, 1960-ban a British Science Fiction Association elnökévé választotta. A hatvanas években az Oxford Mail irodalmi szerkesztője volt. 1964 körül Harry Harrisonnal elindították az első SF-kritikával foglalkozó folyóiratot, a Science Fiction Horizons-t. Számos SF antológia szerkesztője volt. 2005-ben II. Erzsébet brit királynőtől az Officer of the Order of the British Empire érdemrendet kapta.
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“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Forrás: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
“Exactly.”
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 152
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973)
“Man on Bridge” p. 88
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Locus interview (2000)
“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man in His Time” p. 209
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”
Forrás: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)
"The Deceptive Truth", The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
“Old Hundredth” p. 162
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman (1998) Unsourced variant: "Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system."
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“The ability to change should not be despised.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 139
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” pp. 90-91
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“It’s the duty of men in office not to be misled.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 140
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 143
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”
"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)