Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issue and an interview with William S. Around 1964, he and long-time collaborator Harry Harrison started the first ever journal of science fiction criticism, Science Fiction Horizons, which during its brief span of two issues published articles and reviews by such authors as James Blish, and featured a discussion among Brian Aldiss, C. He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail newspaper from 1958 to 1969. He was elected president of the British Science Fiction Association in 1960. By this time, his earnings from writing matched his wages in the bookshop, and he made the decision to become a full-time writer.īrian Aldiss led the voting for Most Promising New Author of 1958 at the next year’s Worldcon, but finished behind “no award”. Aldiss confessed to being a science fiction author, to the delight of the publishers, who had a number of science fiction fans in high places, and so his first science fiction book was published, a collection of short stories entitled Space, Time and Nathaniel (Faber, 1957). The Brightfount Diaries had been a minor success, and Faber asked Aldiss if he had any more writing they could look at with a view to publishing. As a result, Faber and Faber published Aldiss’s first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), a 200-page novel in diary form about the life of a sales assistant in a bookshop. He also wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers’ trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, which attracted the attention of Charles Monteith, an editor at the publisher Faber and Faber. After the war, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. Wells and Robert Heinlein, and later Philip K. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.Īs a child Aldiss discovered the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE (1925 – 2017) was an English writer and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.
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