The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. In fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall as the planet orbits the giant sun Freyr every 3000 years. The trilogy won the J.W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Helliconia

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction & Fantasy

HarperCollins, UK

Galactic Empires Vol. One

AVON.

Earthworks

'No way of solving these problems exists any more. The conventions collapsed like old bridges. On the one side of the gulf is the mind, eternal and untouched - on the other, the body, running, jumping, bleeding ... The mind can take care of itself, as it has had to from the very beginning; it's not as smart as the body, but it can survive.' The future Earth of Brian Aldiss's Earthworks is a moribund ecological disaster, ruined by poisons, greed, unsustainable development and overpopulation. Mankind is broken, starving, wracked with disease and divided by bitter social injustice. Our window into this terrible world is the dangerous, crazed Knowle Noland, whose destructive impulses threaten to upturn the wreckage of civilization, either to redemption or final catastrophe. Rarely do Science Fiction works stand well the test of time as their suppositions are out-dated and superseded; Brian Aldiss's vision is remarkable for having come closer to reality decades after he conceived of this terrible future.

Science Fiction

Mandarin

<p>A collection of stories inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" includes contributions by Brian Aldiss, Loren D. Estleman, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, S.P. Somtow, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Kurt Vonnegut</p>

The Ultimate Frankenstein: New Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors

Literature & Fiction

Loren D. Estleman

kurt-vonnegut

Various, Authors

United States

Dell

Starship (Signet SF, S1779)

New American Library

When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols - tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world.

Barefoot in the Head

Panther Books

<p>Panther Granada Books, British mass market paperback, 1984, 2nd printing. Aldiss' 1962 novel of a far future earth where the sun has become a giant and the earth has stopped its rotation. An abridged version was published in the U. S. as "The Long Afternoon of Earth."</p>

Hothouse

Panther/Granada

An interconnected set of stories set on a distant, vast galactic cluster. Each world in the cluster contains the descendants of Old Earth, and though light years apart from its neighbours, forms part of a sprawling island universe called Starswarm. The author also wrote the Helliconia Trilogy.

Starswarm

HarperCollins, Publishers

'The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.' The time traveller Bush's adventure takes him through 1930, 1851, the Jurassic and 2093, on the way exploring a modern crisis that remains our own. In Brian Aldiss's tale of time travel, the fiction is once again as psychologically imaginative as it is scientific, an idiosyncrasy of Aldiss's future visions that, over time, have proven remarkably prescient.

Cryptozoic

Panther

Sphere, 1977. British mass market paperback. This 1967 novel was first published in Britain with the title, "An Age." The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind.

SPHERE

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Helliconia

Galactic Empires Vol. One

Earthworks

The Ultimate Frankenstein: New Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors

Starship (Signet SF, S1779)

Barefoot in the Head

Hothouse

Starswarm

Cryptozoic

Cryptozoic