Brian W.Aldiss

"Brian W. Aldiss is the name given to a certain collection of concepts, intellectual, emotional, and physical, which came into being in 1925 and is still going through an intricate series of permutations. Part of its output appears as wordage (which is all that need concern us in this context). This year, it will publish The Hand-Reared Boy (Hutchinson), first of a quartet of novels on themes of sex and ideological pressures; Barefoot in the Head (Faber & Faber), the Charteris Acid Head War novel, a holophrastic work containing concrete poems, dirges, and pop songs; and Report on Probability A (Doubleday), the only science fiction antinovel. It will write a science-reverie called The Shape of Further Things , and a play about familial relationships in disruption provisionally entitled Okay, So You've Blown Your Mind -- Now Blow Your Nose! " [in the anthology The Year 2000 , 1970]

"Brian W.Aldiss has won most of the prizes in the international science fiction field. These include a Hugo and a Nebula from the USA, a Kurd Lasswitz Award from West Germany, a Jules Verne Award from Sweden, and a BSFA Award from England. The Australians voted him 'World's Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction'. His novels and short stories have been translated into many languages. His most recent success is with the three Helliconia novels, Helliconia Spring , Helliconia Summer , and Helliconia Winter . He is also unique among novelists in holding three major prizes for criticism, the SFRA Pilgrim Award, the James Blish Award, and the new IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award." [publisher's bumpf in Trillion Year Spree , 1986]