TY - ABST T1 - Finches of Mars Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.

PB - The Friday Project CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - HARM Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..

PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horse Meat" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 65 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Before Yesterday Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history including a fascist Britain.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Contains his “The Impossible Smile” first published in a different form under the pseudonym Jael Craken in Science Fantasy 23 - 24.72 - 73 (May – June 1965): 5-43, 5-44. Rpt. in SF Reprise 6 (1966): 5-43, 5-44; and “Equator” first published in New Worlds Science Fiction 25.75 - 76 (September - October 1958): 4-41; 80-121; and as Vanguard from Alpha. New York: Ace Books, 1959. Ace Double bound with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Changeling Worlds

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex. 

JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Ways" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Men (no women were on the ship) return to Earth after a long trip to find it entirely under five dystopias. After a new ice age and two nuclear wars, most people live underground and there are constant wars among the dystopias, Corporatia, Socdemaria, Communia, Neutralia, and Third World. Widespread poverty and few human rights. The men end up in different countries, but their situations are much the same, except for one who moves to Zealandia, a colony of Australia, where he becomes a colonial boss. The others return to space.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his New Arrivals, Old Encounters: Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 25-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horsemen" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A simple, agricultural eutopia is destroyed by people from Earth. The people are closely in tune with their planet, vegetarian, live in marriage groups, and have rich inner lives. The arriving Earth ship releases the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death) on the planet.

JF - Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. as "New Arrivals, Old Encounters." In his New Arrivals, Old Encounters. Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 9-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hunter at His Ease." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Nooks CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Total Environment" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 109-51. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danger: Religion!" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.

JF - The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthworks Y1 - 1965 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man on Bridge" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 1 N1 -

Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Primal Urge Y1 - 1961 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X for Exploitation" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 31.92 - 32.94 N1 -

Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961. 

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Repub. as Bow Down to Nul and The Interpreter.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Stop Y1 - 1958 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Worlds Tears" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a catastrophe. All whites are gone. Hatred and toughness are honored, and there is no love.

JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 21 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Canopy of Time (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 25-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which humans have devolved into small, but still intelligent, creatures living in a world dominated by plants.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976, with an “Introduction” by Joseph Milicia (v-xvii). Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1962, which had originally been serialized in slightly different form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “Hothouse.” 20.2 (117) (February 1961): 5-35; “Nomansland.” 20.4 (119) (April 1961): 99-129; “Undergrowth.” 21.1 (122) (July 1961): 84-130; “Timberline.” 21.3 (144) (September 1961): 99-129; and “Evergreen.” 21.6 (127) (December 1961): 82-128

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Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962) 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shubshub Race" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire that includes a planet called Upotia, the Health planet, which has a constant pleasant climate, but this is a minor part of the story.

JF - Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panel Game" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with society organized around a consumption band, which reflects income. Television, which cannot be turned off and is primarily a means of reminding consumers of the products they are required to buy, is organized by these bands.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 14.42 N1 -

Rpt. in his Space, Time and Nathaniel (presciences) (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), 187-99. 

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