23) Trillion Year Spree, by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove ( Read more... )

6) Pile: Petals from St. Klaed's computer, by Brian Aldiss, illustrated by Mike Wilks

A rather peculiar conjunction of Aldiss (writing in verse for once) and Wilks (later famous for The Ultimate Alphabet) supplying a superb depiction of the crazed architecture of the city of Pile (and its mirror image Elip), plus the power-hungry prince Scart. ( Read more... )

5) Backdrop of Stars, edited by Harry Harrison ( Read more... )

communicator links to a fascinating YouTube diary presented by a woman with autism. The behaviour patterns she shows to us are very familiar to me.

A Doctor Who fan-vid using "I'm Gonna Be" by The Proclaimers - hilarious and uplifting.

George R.R. Martin's pizza crawl.

Brian Aldiss is on Desert Island Discs tomorrow.

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23) The Brightfount Diaries, by Brian Aldiss ( Read more... )

11) October the First is Too Late, by Fred Hoyle ( Read more... )

There are precisely three Library Thing users who have logged copies of Enemies of the System, by Brian Aldiss. All three of us are also the only Library Thing Users to have logged Aldiss' short story collection, Space, Time and Nathaniel and his novel Earthworks, and also - this one really did surprise me - we are the only Library Thing users to ( Read more... )

...Brian Aldiss, eighty years old today.

12) Cultural Breaks, by Brian Aldiss ( Read more... )

I see Brian Aldiss got an OBE. Congratulations to him.