@booklet {8250, title = {Finches of Mars}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {The Friday Project}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {6028, title = {"Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key"}, howpublished = {Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {157-73}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {5862, title = {HARM}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Del Rey}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {5250, title = {Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {4946, title = {White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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..

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) and Roger Penrose (b. 1931)} } @booklet {4287, title = {"Horse Meat"}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = { no. 65 }, year = {1992}, month = {November 1992}, pages = {48-61}, abstract = {

Violent dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {3795, title = {The Year Before Yesterday}, year = {1987}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Franklin Watts}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history including a fascist Britain.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {11183, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Whore of Babylon{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology}, year = {1986}, month = {1986}, pages = {78-97}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, address = {Harmondsworth, Eng.}, abstract = {

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.\ 

}, keywords = {Chilean author, Israeli author, Male author}, isbn = {9780140080674}, author = {Leon [L{\'e}on] Zeldis}, editor = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) and Sam J. Lundwall} } @booklet {2984, title = {Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis}, year = {1978}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {1978}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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\&$\#$39;s director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {2985, title = {"Three Ways"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {54.4 }, year = {1978}, note = {

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

}, month = {April 1978}, pages = {39-58}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {2919, title = {"Horsemen"}, howpublished = {Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine }, volume = {1.3}, year = {1977}, note = {

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

}, month = {September 1977}, pages = {48-50}, abstract = {

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) from the psyches of the nine people from Earth on the ship onto the planet.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {2739, title = {"What You Get For Your Dollar"}, howpublished = {The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {38-48 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 37}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)}, editor = {Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008)} } @booklet {2272, title = {"The Hunter at His Ease."}, howpublished = {Science Against Man}, year = {1970}, month = {1970}, pages = {77-96}, publisher = {Avon Nooks}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)}, editor = {Anthony Cheetham} } @booklet {2121, title = {"Total Environment"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = { 26.3 }, year = {1968}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {February 1968}, pages = {113-56}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {2017, title = {"Danger: Religion!"}, howpublished = {The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths}, year = {1966}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {1966}, pages = {83-121}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {11344, title = {Earthworks}, year = {1965}, note = {

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

}, month = {1965}, pages = {155 pp.}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1937, title = {"Man on Bridge"}, howpublished = {New Writings in S-F }, volume = {1}, year = {1964}, note = {

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.

}, month = {1964}, pages = {95-116 with a brief editor{\textquoteright}s note on 93}, publisher = {Dennis Dobson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)}, editor = {[Edward] John Carnell (1912-72)} } @booklet {1804, title = {Primal Urge}, year = {1961}, note = {

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.

}, month = {1961}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1769, title = {"X for Exploitation"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction }, volume = {31.92 - 32.94}, year = {1960}, note = {

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

}, month = {March - May 1960}, pages = {4-42; 78-110, 112-114; 78-123}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1718, title = {Non-Stop}, year = {1958}, note = {

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

}, month = {1958}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1656, title = {"All the Worlds Tears"}, howpublished = {Nebula Science Fiction}, volume = {no. 21}, year = {1957}, note = {

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

}, month = { [May] 1957}, pages = {24-35}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {10069, title = {Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel}, year = {1957}, note = {

\ 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

}, month = {1957}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1657, title = {"The Shubshub Race"}, howpublished = {Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences)}, year = {1957}, month = {1957}, pages = {84-105}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} } @booklet {1549, title = {"Panel Game"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction}, volume = { 14.42 }, year = {1955}, note = {

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

}, month = {December 1955}, pages = {63-72}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} }