Pale Shadow of Science

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Pale Shadow of Science
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian Aldiss
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780007482320
ClassificationsDewey:823.0876209
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint The Friday Project Limited
Publication Date 29 August 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Two of Aldiss' essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume. In this warm, chatty, opinionated collection of essays, Brian Aldiss tells the reader a bit about his youth, holds forth on the position of science fiction within the literary and scientific worlds and reveals some of the processes at work in his own writing. This volume also includes the companion collection ...And the Lurid Glare of the Comet.

Author Biography

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was 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 was the story 'Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories, many of which are being reissued as part of The Brian Aldiss Collection. Several of Aldiss' books have been adapted for the cinema; his story 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' was adapted and released as the film AI in 2001. Besides his own writing, Brian has edited numerous anthologies of science fiction and fantasy stories, as well as the magazine SF Horizons. Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society and in 2000 was given the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Aldiss was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2005. He now lives in Oxford, the city in which his bookselling career began in 1947.

Reviews

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.'THE TELEGRAPH 'Aldiss has rarely been far from SF's intellectual centre.' SFX MAGAZINE