Brian W Aldiss
Brian W Aldiss: an Appreciation by Malcolm Edwards
I first met Brian Aldiss in 1969, when I was still an undergraduate. He’d come to give a talk at my university. I was travelling down to London the next day, and spotted him on […]
Read MoreBrian Aldiss 1925 – 2017
Last Friday we posted an appreciation of Brian Aldiss on the day of his 92nd birthday. Yesterday we learned that he had died the very next day. All at Gollancz and SF Gateway are saddened […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Brian Aldiss!
Two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, five BSFA Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame living inductee. SFWA Grand Master. The IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship. World Fantasy Special […]
Read MoreGateway Essentials: Brian W. Aldiss
Two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, five BSFA Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame living inductee. SFWA Grand Master. The IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship. World Fantasy Special […]
Read MoreRobert Silverberg’s Reflections: June 2016
‘Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow’ Isaac Asimov Reflections is a regular column by multi-award-winning SFWA Grandmaster Robert Silverberg, in which he will offer his thoughts […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Michael Bishop!
Celebrating his Biblical three-score-and-ten, today, is Michael Lawson Bishop, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on 12th November 1945. A published author for forty-five years, since his story ‘Piñon Fall’ appeared in the October 1970 issue of […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Brian Aldiss!
Two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, five BSFA Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame living inductee. SFWA Grand Master. The IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship. World Fantasy Special […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Ian Watson!
Today, Gateway wishes a very Happy Birthday to Ian Watson, a stalwart of British SF for over forty years. His work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and […]
Read MoreSFX Book Club: Helliconia Spring
With spring in the air (honest – you just need to look carefully), we thought we’d tread the path of the bleedin’ obvious by spotlighting a couple of books with a vernal feel to their […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: Greybeard
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children. ‘Mr Aldiss’ […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: Non-Stop
As far as introductions go, this one is easy. Belligerent but easy. Ready? OK. Ahem. If you don’t know who Brian Aldiss is, go away now. Or … you know … you could always read […]
Read MoreSF Gateway: the BSFA Award-winners
With the 65th Eastercon just round the corner and with it the presentation of the BSFA Awards, we thought it appropriate to take a look over the history of the award and see how many […]
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