biography
| name: |
Aldiss, Brian (Wilson)
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pronunciation:
[awldis]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Science-fiction writer and novelist, born in East Dereham, Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied at Framlingham College, and his first novel, The Brightfount Diaries, appeared in 1955. He is best known as a writer of science fiction, such as Hothouse (1962, US title The Long Afternoon of Earth) and The Saliva Tree (1966). There are two collections of short stories (1988, 1989), and he has produced histories of science fiction such as Billion Year Spree (1973) and Trillion Year Spree (1986). Among later works are a novel, Dracula Unbound (1991), the poetry collections At the Caligula Hotel (1995), The Poems of Makhtumkuli (1996), and When the Feast is Finished (2000). |
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