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Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE – angielski pisarz science-fiction, krytyk i wydawca fantastyki. Pięciokrotny laureat British SF Award, dwukrotny laureat nagrody Hugo oraz Nebuli i Nagrody im. Campbella. Uhonorowany nagrodą Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award za dorobek życia.

Urodził się w East Dereham, w Norfolk, w Wielkiej Brytanii. W latach 1943–1947 służył w armii brytyjskiej na Dalekim Wschodzie. Po powrocie do kraju pracował jako księgarz w Oksfordzie, gdzie powstała jego pierwsza książka w 1955 roku. W tym samym roku, gazeta "The Observer" ogłosiła konkurs na opowiadanie, którego akcja miała rozgrywać się w roku 2500. Aldiss wygrał ten konkurs opowiadaniem Not For An Age. Dzięki temu opublikował swoją pierwszą powieść fantastyczną, Space, Time and Nathaniel.

11 czerwca 2005 roku został odznaczony tytułem Oficer Orderu Imperium Brytyjskiego za swoje zasługi dla literatury.

✵ 18. Sierpień 1925 – 19. Sierpień 2017
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Brian Aldiss słynne cytaty

„Jak przyrośnięte do grzbietów bijajaków, fagory zwróciły posępne, bycze twarze ku wyżynie w dali, gdzie stado zatrzyma się na popas. Pod wygiętymi do góry rogami świeciły oczy. Co rusz któryś wysuwał biały mlecz i zapuszczając go w szczeliny potężnych nozdrzy wymiatał dokuczliwe muszki. Niezgrabne głowy siedziały na cielskach w całości porośniętych długim białym włosem. Fagory były białe od stóp do głów – z wyjątkiem różowo – szkarłatnych oczu. Jechały na bijajakach, jakby stanowiły z nimi jedno. Za ich plecami bujały się prymitywne skórzane juki z pałkami i innym orężem.”

Brian Aldiss książka Wiosna Helikonii

Wiosna Helikonii (1982)

„Najlepszą kryjówką dla książki jest biblioteka.”

Brian Aldiss

Szczegóły

„Dar tworzenia rodzi się z poczucia straty.”

Brian Aldiss

Źródło: list Briana Aldissa do wydawnictwa „Solaris”

„Wam się zdaje, że żyjemy pośrodku wszechświata. A ja wam powiadam, że żyjemy pośrodku podwórza.”

Brian Aldiss książka Wiosna Helikonii

Wiosna Helikonii (1982)

Brian Aldiss: Cytaty po angielsku

“If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.”

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Brian W. Aldiss

The Glass Forest (1986)

“Insane? To disobey a law of the universe was impossible, not insane.”

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“Man in His Time” p. 201 (originally published in Science Fantasy, April 1965)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed — now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down…”

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As quoted in web article "The Brian Aldiss Connection" http://www.zone-sf.com/brianaldiss.html, The Zone

“They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which men and monsters swam or battled, and then swiftly erased it. Such ideas did not conform with the quiet behavior of his companions; if they never spoke about outside, did they think about it?”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Outside

Outside (1955)

“Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question:
Where was "here"?
He shut that one down sharply.
Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Outside

Outside (1955)

“You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.”

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“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 79
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“I'm lucky that SFWA has such a short memory. I was always the Young Turk, the gadfly. Part of the New Wave, although I didn't fit in there either! I spent years, and two histories, putting the so-called Old Guard in their place, and now I'm one of them!”

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Locus interview (2000)

“The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Greybeard

Źródło: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 “London” (p. 170)

“Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness — but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

“All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness—or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know.
Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.”

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“A Kind of Artistry” p. 185
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Many Franks of the sixteenth generation were killed in the muck of the trenches, he died not once but many times, developing an obsessive dread of war which never left him.
By the time the Americans entered the war, he was turning his many thoughts to politics.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

“All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Greybeard

Źródło: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 171)

“One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir.”

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Report On Probability A (1968)

“A later generation could have explained the miracle to Sir Frank — though explaining in terms he would not have understood. Though he knew well enough the theory of family traits and likenesses, it would have been impossible then to make him comprehend the intricacy of a chromosome which carries inside it — not merely the stereotypes of parental hair or temperament — but the secret knowledge of how to breathe, how to work the muscles to move the bones, how to grow, how to remember, how to commence the processes of thought … all the infinite number of secret "how to's" that have to be passed on for life to stay above jelly level.
A freak chromosome in Sir Frank ensured he passed on, together with these usual secrets, the secret of his individual consciousness.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Hothouse

Źródło: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 5

“There was a time, two or three centuries ago, when it looked as if the intellect might win over the body, and our species become something worthwhile. But too much procreation killed that illusion.”

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“Man on Bridge” p. 92
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Jagger had gone through there. Harley also went through. Somewhere he did not know, somewhere whose existence he had not guessed.… Somewhere that wasn't the house.…”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Outside

Outside (1955)

““The intelligent have been overwhelmed by the dull. Is that not an invasion?”
“More, I would say, of a self-betrayal.””

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“Man on Bridge” p. 83 (originally published in New Writings in SF 1, 1964)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

““Are you a religious man, Joe?”
Flitch pulled a face. “I leaves that sort of thing to women.””

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Greybeard

Źródło: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 149)

“As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, “Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.””

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Greybeard

Źródło: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 148)

“There has always been a belief in miracles in the popular mind. As L. Sprague de Camp once said, the public would rather be bunked than debunked.”

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Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 205

“All of which makes one feel that the centuries of science upon which our western culture is based have travelled unmarked through the popular mind. A surprising number of people are willing to junk the entire accumulation of knowledge since Ancient Greece after watching Uri Geller perform for five minutes on their twenty-three inch screen.”

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Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 203

“Aldiss’s second law of thermo-linguistics states that what is most popular is rarely best and that what is best is rarely most popular.”

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Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 201

“The greatest human achievement is to fulfil one’s destiny.”

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Originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction, August 1965; reprinted in Michael Moorcock (ed.) Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, p. 83
Short fiction, The Source (1965)

“There's a way outside. We're — we've got to find out what we are.”

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Brian W. Aldiss książka Outside

His voice rose to an hysterical pitch. He was shaking Calvin again. "We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment — or we're all monsters!"
Outside (1955)

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