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R.I.P. Brian Aldiss
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Billion Year Spree was updated and re-titled Trillion-Year Spree...in both he called Hugo Gernsback "the worse disaster to ever hit science fiction"...he will be missed, even if he didn't like Uncle Hugo
Yesterday at a library sale I picked up a first edition hardback of Helliconia Spring. Probably not worth anything because it's been well used, but I couldn't let it get pulped.
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Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction (other topics)Non-Stop (other topics)
Orphans of the Sky (other topics)
Aldiss was a prolific writer of science fiction short stories as well as novels. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, & Campbell awards, as well as the prestigious title of SFWA Grandmaster.
He may be best known for his non-fiction history of science fiction, The Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction.
His first novel was Non-Stop (US title: Starship, because Americans like their novels' titles to be spoilers :), the first generation-ship gone awry novel (cf Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky stories and Ellison's Starlost.)
His short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" inspired Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001).
Brian Aldiss dies aged 92