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Brian Aldiss Books in Order
Brian Wilson Aldiss was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Brian Aldiss's book series? Brian Aldiss has written 8 book series. The most notable is the Best SF series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Brian Aldiss
- #1
Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (With: Robert Sheckley,Harry Harrison)(1969) - #2
Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (With: Harry Harrison)(1970) - #3
Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (With: Harry Harrison)(1971) - #4
Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (With: Harry Harrison)(1972) - #5
Best SF: 1973 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 7 (With: Harry Harrison)(1973) - #6
Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (With: Harry Harrison)(1976)
- #1
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)(1955) - #2
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)(1968) - #3
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)(1982) - #4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)(1983) - #5
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)(1989) - #6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)(1997) - #7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)(1998) - #8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)(2009) - #9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)(2011) - #10
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)(2012) - #11
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)(2014) - #12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)(2014) - #13
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)(2016) - #14
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)(2019) - #15
The Victim (By: P.D. James)(2019) - #16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)(2019) - #17
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)(2019) - #18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)(2019) - #19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)(2019) - #20
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)(2019) - #21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)(2019) - #22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)(2019) - #23
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)(2019) - #24
Three Types of Solitude(2019) - #25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)(2019) - #26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)(2019) - #27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)(2019) - #28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)(2019) - #29
A Chinese Perspective(2000) - #30
A New (Governmental) Father Christmas(2002)
- #1
Helliconia Spring(1982) - #2
Helliconia Summer(1983) - #3
Helliconia Winter(1985)
- #1
The Hand-Reared Boy(1970) - #2
A Soldier Erect(1971) - #3
A Rude Awakening(1978)
- #1
Isaac Asimov's Aliens (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1991) - #2
Isaac Asimov's Robots (By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson)(1991) - #3
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford)(1993) - #4
Isaac Asimov's War (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1993) - #5
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1994) - #6
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1995) - #7
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson)(1995) - #8
Isaac Asimov's Christmas (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1997) - #9
Isaac Asimov's Camelot (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason)(1998) - #10
Isaac Asimov's Detectives (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(1998) - #11
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois)(1999) - #12
Isaac Asimov's Solar System (By: Gardner Dozois)(1999) - #13
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(2000) - #14
Isaac Asimov's Father Day (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)(2001) - #15
Isaac Asimov's Halloween (By: Isaac Asimov)(2001) - #16
Penguin Science Fiction(1961) - #17
Best Fantasy Stories(1962) - #18
More Penguin Science Fiction(1963) - #19
The Eighth Galaxy Reader(1965) - #20
Tales of Unease(1966) - #21
Nebula Award Stories #2(1966) - #22
Introducing Science Fiction(1967) - #23
Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus(1968) - #24
Backdrop of Stars(1968) - #25
The Inner Landscape(1969) - #26
Dangerous Visions 1(1969) - #27
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3(1970) - #28
Nova 1(1970) - #29
On Our Way to the Future(1970) - #30
SF Authors' Choice 2(1970) - #31
Science Against Man(1970) - #32
The Astounding Analog Reader(1972) - #33
This Side of Infinity(1972) - #34
Alpha 3(1972) - #35
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two(1973) - #36
The Year's Best Science Fiction(1973) - #37
Orbit 12(1973) - #38
Factions(1974) - #39
Space Odysseys(1974) - #40
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology(1974) - #41
Decade: The 1940's(1975) - #42
New Worlds Nine(1975) - #43
New Writings in SF 27(1975) - #44
Evil Earths(1975) - #45
Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories(1975) - #46
Hell's Cartographers(1975) - #47
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction(1975) - #48
New Worlds 6(1975) - #49
Antigrav(1975) - #50
Andromeda 1(1976) - #51
Decade: The 1950s(1976) - #52
Galactic Empires 2(1976) - #53
Beyond Tomorrow(1976) - #54
Decade: The 1960s(1977) - #55
Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978(1977) - #56
Perilous Planets(1978) - #57
Galactic Empires(1979) - #58
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century(1980) - #59
Winter's Tales 26(1981) - #60
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969(1981) - #61
Perpetual Light(1982) - #62
The Book of Mini-Sagas(1985) - #63
Tales From the Forbidden Planet(1987) - #64
Gaslight & Ghosts(1988) - #65
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1(1988) - #66
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction(1988) - #67
The Book of Mini-Sagas 2(1988) - #68
The Drabble Project(1988) - #69
Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold(1988) - #70
Dark Fantasies(1989) - #71
Now We Are Sick(1991) - #72
Dante's Disciples(1991) - #73
The Amis Story Anthology(1992) - #74
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection(1993) - #75
New Worlds 1(1996) - #76
New Worlds No. 221(1996) - #77
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997(1997) - #78
Mini Sagas 1999(1999) - #79
Nebula Awards 35 (2001)(2001) - #80
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction(2002) - #81
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction(2002) - #82
Mini-Sagas(2002) - #83
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies(2002) - #84
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology(2006) - #85
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction(2010) - #86
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011(2010) - #87
Catastrophia(2010) - #88
xo Orpheus(2013) - #89
Four For Fantasy(2013) - #90
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013(2013)
- #1
The Shape of Further Things(1970) - #2
Billion Year Spree(1973) - #3
Science Fiction Art(1975) - #4
This World and Nearer Ones(1979) - #5
Pale Shadow of Science(1986) - #6
Trillion Year Spree (With: David Wingrove)(1986) - #7
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography(1986) - #8
The Detached Retina(1988) - #9
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's(1990) - #10
Home Life With Cats(1992) - #11
When The Feast Is Finished(1994) - #12
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman(1998) - #13
Art After Apogee(2000) - #14
Plutonian Monologue(2000) - #15
The Starry Messenger(2006) - #16
An Exile on Planet Earth(2012) - #17
The Twinkling of an Eye(2015) - #18
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet(2021)
- #1
Starswarm(1954) - #2
The Brightfount Diaries(1955) - #3
Non-Stop / Starship(1958) - #4
Vanguard From Alpha(1959) - #5
Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter(1960) - #6
Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth(1961) - #7
The Male Response(1961) - #8
The Primal Urge(1961) - #9
Dark Light Years(1964) - #10
Greybeard(1964) - #11
Earthworks(1965) - #12
Cryptozoic! / An Age(1967) - #13Report on Probability A(1968)
- #14
Barefoot in the Head(1969) - #15
Neanderthal Planet(1969) - #16
Frankenstein Unbound(1973) - #17
The Eighty-Minute Hour(1974) - #18
Enemies of the System(1978) - #19
Moreau's Other Island(1980) - #20
An Island Called Moreau(1980) - #21
Tales from the Planet Earth(1986) - #22
The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical(1987) - #23Ruins(1988)
- #24
Sex and the Black Machine(1988) - #25
Dracula Unbound(1990) - #26
White Mars (With: Roger Penrose)(1999) - #27
The Cretan Teat(2001) - #28
Super State(2002) - #29Affairs At Hampden Ferrers(2004)
- #30
Jocasta(2005) - #31
Sanity and the Lady(2005) - #32Harm(2007)
- #33
Walcot(2009) - #34
Finches of Mars(2012) - #35
Comfort Zone(2013) - #36
The Malacia Tapestry(2014) - #37
Hothouse(2024) - #38
Space, Time and Nathaniel(1957) - #39
No Time Like Tomorrow(1959) - #40
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time(1959) - #41
The Airs of Earth(1963) - #42
The Saliva Tree(1966) - #43
Who Can Replace a Man?(1966) - #44
Intangibles, Inc.: And Other Stories(1969) - #45
Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories(1969) - #46
The Moment of Eclipse(1970) - #47
Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss(1972) - #48
Equator(1973) - #49
Brothers of the Head(1977) - #50Last Orders(1977)
- #51
Pile(1979) - #52
New Arrivals, Old Encounters(1979) - #53
Foreign Bodies(1981) - #54
Farewell to a Child(1982) - #55
Seasons in Flight(1984) - #56
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories(1986) - #57
The Magic of the Past(1987) - #58
Science Fiction Blues(1988) - #59
Man in His Time(1989) - #60
At the Caligula Hotel(1995) - #61
The Secret of This Book / Common Clay(1995) - #62The God Who Slept With Women(1995)
- #63
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time(2001) - #64
The Dark Sun Rises(2002) - #65
Cultural Breaks(2005) - #66
A Prehistory of Mind(2008) - #67
Mortal Morning(2011) - #68
The Invention of Happiness(2013) - #69
Songs from the Steppes(2014) - #70
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s(2015) - #71
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)(2015) - #72
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)(2015) - #73
Hello Earth, Are You There?(2025)
- #1
Life in the West(1980) - #2
Forgotten Life(1988) - #3
Remembrance Day(1993) - #4
Somewhere East of Life(1994)
About Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
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