Brian W. Aldiss

Naissance 18 August 1925 · Décès 19 AUgust 2017

Originaire de Dereham, England, United Kingdom · Nationalité : United Kingdom · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) était un écrivain, artiste et éditeur d'anthologies anglais, surtout connu pour ses romans et nouvelles de science-fiction. Sa signature apparaît généralement sous la forme Brian W. Aldiss ou Brian Aldiss, avec quelques pseudonymes occasionnels au milieu des années 1960. Son œuvre dans le genre comprend des romans tels que The Malacia Tapestry et Finches of Mars, qui témoignent de son engagement constant envers les thèmes spéculatifs.

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“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”
p. 17En anglais
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”
"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's 1990En anglais
“The Badlands were extensive. Ancient bomb craters and soil erosion joined hands here; man’s talent for war, coupled with his inability to manage forested land, had produced thousands of square miles of temperate purgatory, where nothing moved but dust.”
Who Can Replace a Man?, p. 19En anglais
“He had the settled expression of a certain kind of peasant—the kind that accepts, with protest but without malice, the vagaries of life. It is the gift life sends to compensate for the lack of a high I.Q.”
Who Can Replace a Man?, pp. 90-91En anglais
“It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.”
Greybeard, Chapter 2En anglais