Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published awardâwinning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the threeâvolume Horatio Stubbs saga and the fourâvolume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was âSuperâToys Last All Summer Long,â which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrickâs death by Steven Spielberg as A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.Â
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