Brian Wilson Aldiss  (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) 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.

Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international group in Wells' honour. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1999 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He wrote the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.

Life and career

Early life, education and military service
Brian Wilson Aldiss was born on 18 August 1925, above his paternal grandfather's draper's shop in Dereham, Norfolk. When Aldiss's grandfather died, his father, Bill (the younger of two sons), sold his share in the shop and the family left Dereham. Aldiss's mother, Dot, was the daughter of a builder. He had an older sister who was stillborn and a younger sister. As a three-year-old, Aldiss started to write stories which his mother would bind and put on a shelf.

At the age of 6, Aldiss went to Framlingham College, but moved to Devon and was sent to board at West Buckland School in 1939 after the outbreak of World War II. As a child, he discovered the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. He eventually read all the novels by H. G. Wells, Robert Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick. In 1943, he joined the Royal Signals and saw military action in Burma.

Writing and publishing
His army experience inspired the novel Hothouse and the Horatio Stubbs second and third books, A Soldier Erect and A Rude Awakening, respectively.

After the war, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. 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. 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.

About this time he also began to write science fiction for various magazines. According to ISFDB, his first speculative fiction in print was the short story Criminal Record, published by John Carnell in the July 1954 issue of Science Fantasy. Several of his stories appeared in 1955, including three in monthly issues of New Worlds, also edited by Carnell.

In 1954, The Observer newspaper ran a competition for a short story set in the year 2500. Aldiss's story Not For An Age was ranked third following a reader vote.

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. 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). By this time, his earnings from writing matched his wages in the bookshop, and he made the decision to become a full-time writer.

Aldiss led the voting for Most Promising New Author of 1958 at the next year's Worldcon, but finished behind "no award". He was elected president of the British Science Fiction Association in 1960. He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail newspaper from 1958 to 1969. 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 Aldiss, C. S. Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issue and an interview with William S. Burroughs in the second. In 1967 Algis Budrys listed Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany as "an earthshaking new kind of" writers, and leaders of the New Wave. Aldiss supported the New Wave movement, helping the magazine New Worlds to get financial backing from a 1967 Arts Council grant and publishing some of his more experimental work in the magazine.

Besides his own writings, he edited a number of anthologies. For Faber he edited Introducing SF, a collection of stories typifying various themes of science fiction, and Best Fantasy Stories. In 1961, he edited an anthology of reprinted short science fiction for the British paperback publisher Penguin Books under the title Penguin Science Fiction. This was remarkably successful, went into numerous reprints, and was followed up by two further anthologies: More Penguin Science Fiction (1963) and Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964). The later anthologies enjoyed the same success as the first, and all three were eventually published together as The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973), which also went into a number of reprints. In the 1970s, he produced several large collections of classic grand-scale science fiction, under the titles Space Opera (1974), Space Odysseys (1975), Galactic Empires (1976), Evil Earths (1976) and Perilous Planets (1978). Around this time, he edited a large-format volume Science Fiction Art (1975), with selections of artwork from the magazines and pulps.

In response to the results from the planetary probes of the 1960s and 1970s, which showed that Venus was completely unlike the hot, tropical jungle usually depicted in science fiction, Aldiss and Harrison edited an anthology Farewell, Fantastic Venus!, reprinting stories based on the pre-probe ideas of Venus. He also edited, with Harrison, a series of anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction (Nos. 1–9, 1968–1976).

Aldiss invented a form of extremely short story called the mini-saga. The Daily Telegraph hosted a competition for the best mini-saga for several years, and Aldiss was the judge. He edited several anthologies of the best mini-sagas.

Aldiss travelled to Yugoslavia, where he met fans in Ljubljana, Slovenia and published a travel book about Yugoslavia entitled Cities and Stones (1966), his only work in the genre. He published an alternative-history fantasy story, "The Day of the Doomed King" (1968), about Serbian kings in the Middle Ages, and wrote a novel called The Malacia Tapestry, about an alternative Dalmatia.

Art
In addition to a highly successful career as a writer, Aldiss was an accomplished artist. His first solo exhibition, The Other Hemisphere, was held in Oxford, August–September 2010, and the exhibition's centrepiece Metropolis (see figure) has since been released as a limited edition fine art print. (The exhibition title denotes the writer/artist's notion, "words streaming from one side of his brain inspiring images in what he calls 'the other hemisphere'".)

Personal life
In 1948, Aldiss married Olive Fortescue, secretary to the owner of Sanders' bookseller's in Oxford, where he had worked since 1947. He had two children from his first marriage: Clive in 1955 and Caroline Wendy in 1959, but the marriage "finally collapsed" in 1959 and dissolved in 1965.

In 1965, he married his second wife, Margaret Christie Manson (daughter of John Alexander Christie Manson, an aeronautical engineer), a Scot and secretary to the editor of the Oxford Mail; Aldiss was 40, and she 31. They lived in Oxford and had two children together, Tim and Charlotte. She died in 1997.

Death
Aldiss died on 19 August 2017, the day after his 92nd birthday.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1990.

Aldiss was the "Permanent Special Guest" at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) from 1989 through 2008. He was also the Guest of Honor at the conventions in 1986 and 1999.

The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 18th SFWA Grand Master in 1999 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2004.

He was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in the 2005 Birthday Honours list.

In January 2007 he appeared on Desert Island Discs. His choice of record to 'save' was "Old Rivers" sung by Walter Brennan, his choice of book was John Heilpern's biography of John Osborne, and his luxury a banjo. The full selection of eight favourite records is on the BBC website.

On 1 July 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liverpool in recognition of his contribution to literature. The Brian W Aldiss Archive at the university holds manuscripts from the period 1943–1995.

In 2013, Aldiss was recipient of the World Fantasy Convention Award at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England.

Aldiss sat on the Council of the Society of Authors.

He won two Hugo awards: in 1962 for the Hothouse series; and in 1987 for Trillion Year Spree. Aldiss also won a Nebula award in 1965 for "The Saliva Tree".

Works
Aldiss was the author of over 80 books and 300 short stories, as well as several volumes of poetry.

Novels
 The Brightfount Diaries (1955, Faber)
 Non-Stop (1958, Faber), (1959, Digit), (1976, Pan), (2000, Millennium), US title Starship (1960, Signet S1779), (1969, Avon V2321)
 On a massive generation  ship whose inhabitants have descended into primitivism over 23 generations, a member of a culturally primordial tribe investigates the dark, jungle-filled corridors of the ship and slowly uncovers the true nature of the universe he inhabits.
 The Interpreter (1960, Digit R506), (1967, Four Square 1970), US title Bow Down to Nul Ace D-443
 A short novel about the huge, old galactic empire of Nuls, a giant, three-limbed, civilised alien race. Earth is just a lesser-than-third-class colony ruled by a Nul tyrant whose deceiving devices together with good willing but ineffective attempts of a Nul Signatory (roughly equivalent to Prime Minister) to clarify the abuses and with the disorganised earthling resistance reflect the complex relationship existing between imperialists and subject races which Aldiss himself had the chance of seeing at first hand when serving in India and Indonesia in the forties.
 The Male Response (1959, Beacon 45), (1961, Four Square 1623)
 The Primal Urge (1961, Ballantine F555), (1967, Sphere), (1976, Panther). A satire on sexual reserve, it explores the effects on society of a forehead-mounted "Emotion Register" that glows when the wearer experiences sexual attraction. The book was banned in Ireland.
 Hothouse (1962, Faber), (1965, Four Square 1147), (1979, Panther), published in abridged form in the American market as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962, Signet D2018). A fix-up novel based on short stories "Hothouse", "Nomansland", "Undergrowth", "Timberline" and "Evergreen". This assemblage of stories won the Hugo Award for short fiction in 1962.
 Set in a far future Earth, where the earth has stopped rotating, the Sun has increased output, and plants are engaged in a constant frenzy of growth and decay, like a tropical forest enhanced a thousandfold; a few small groups of elvish humans still live on the edge of extinction, beneath the giant banyan tree that covers the day side of the earth.
 Greybeard (1964, Harcourt, Brace & World), (1964, Faber), (1965, Signet P2689), (1968, Panther)
 Set decades after the Earth's population has been sterilised as a result of nuclear bomb tests conducted in Earth's orbit, the book shows an emptying world, occupied by an aging, childless population.
 The Dark Light Years (1964, Signet D2497), (1964, Faber), (1966, Four Square 1437), (1979, Panther)
 The encounter of humans with the utods, gentle aliens whose physical and mental health requires wallowing in mud and filth, and who – though they achieved interstellar space flight – are not even recognised as intelligent by the humans. The critic Fredric Jameson described The Dark Light Years as, along with Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest, "one of the major SF denunciations of the American genocide in Vietnam."
 Earthworks (1965, Faber), (1966, Doubleday), (1967, Four Square), (1967, Signet P3116), (1979, Panther), (1980, Avon)
 An Age (1967, Faber), (1969, Sphere), (1979, Panther), US title Cryptozoic! (1969, Avon), (1978, Panther), a dystopic time-travel novel
 Report on Probability A (serialized 1967), (1968, Faber), (1969, Sphere). (1969, Doubleday), (1970, Lancer), (1980, Avon)
 Barefoot in the Head (1969, Faber), (1970, Doubleday), (1972, Ace), (1974, Corgi), (1981, AVON), (1990, Gollancz VGSF Classics), a fix-up novel based on short stories: "Just Passing Through", "Multi-Value Motorway", "Still Trajectories", "The Serpent of Kundalini", "Drake-Man Route", and novelettes: "Auto-Ancestral Fracture", "Ouspenski's Astrabahn"
 Perhaps Aldiss's most experimental work, this first appeared in several parts as the Acid Head War series in New Worlds. Set in a Europe some years after a flare-up in the Middle East led to Europe being attacked with bombs releasing huge quantities of long-lived hallucinogenic drugs. Into an England with a population barely maintaining a grip on reality comes a young Serb, who himself starts coming under the influence of the ambient aerosols, and finds himself leading a messianic crusade. The narration and dialogue reflects the shattering of language under the influence of the drugs, in mutating phrases and puns and allusions, in a deliberate echo of Finnegans Wake.
 Horatio Stubbs series:
 The Hand-Reared Boy (1970, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), (1971, Signet T4575), (1971, Corgi)
 A Soldier Erect (1971, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), (1972, Corgi)
 A Rude Awakening (1978, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), (1979, Corgi)
 Omnibus edition, The Horatio Stubbs Saga (1985, Panther)
 Frankenstein Unbound (1973, Jonathan Cape), (1974, Random House), (1975, Fawcett Crest), (1975, Pan)
 A 21st century politician is transported to 19th century Switzerland where he encounters Victor Frankenstein, the Frankenstein Monster and Mary Shelley.
 The Eighty Minute Hour, or The 80 minute Hour (1974, Jonathan Cape), (1974, Doubleday), (1975, Leisure), (1975, Pan)
 A weird and ambitious "space opera" whose characters actually sing. The world is in chaos after nuclear war causes time slips and even those that believe they rule the world have trouble knowing where and when they are.
 The Malacia Tapestry (1976, Jonathan Cape), (1977, Harper & Row), (1978, Panther), (1978, Ace), (1985, Berkley)
 A picaresque novel with fantasy elements, set in a city not unlike Venice. However, it is a Venice without Christianity or monotheism, existing within an alternate version of Renaissance or Early Baroque Italy.
 Brothers of the Head (1977, Pierrot), (1979, Panther)
 A large-format book, illustrated by Ian Pollock, tells the strange story of the rock stars Tom and Barry Howe, Siamese twins with a third, dormant head that eventually starts to awaken.
 Enemies of the System (1978, Jonathan Cape), (1978, Harper & Row), (1980, Panther), (1981, Avon)
 Moreau's Other Island (1980, Jonathan Cape), (1982, Panther), or An Island Called Moreau (1981, Simon & Schuster), (1981, Timescape)
 Squire Quartet series:
  Life in the West (1980, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), (1982, Corgi)
  Forgotten Life (1988, Gollancz), (1989, Atheneum / Macmillan), (1989, Mandarin)
  Remembrance Day (1993, HarperCollins UK), (1993, St. Martin's Press), (1994, Flamingo)
  Somewhere East of Life (1994, Carroll & Graf), (1994, Flamingo)
 Helliconia Trilogy
 Helliconia Spring (1982, Atheneum), (1982, Jonathan Cape), (1983, Berkley), (1983, Granada)
 BSFA Award; Campbell Memorial Award; Nebula Award finalist
 Helliconia Summer (1983, Atheneum), (1983, Jonathan Cape), (1984, Berkley), (1985, Granada)
 BSFA finalist; Locus Award, fourth place
 Helliconia Winter (1985, Atheneum), (1985, Jonathan Cape), (1986, Berkley), (1986, Granada)
 BSFA; Nebula finalist; Locus, fifth place
 Omnibus edition, Helliconia (2010, Gollancz SF Masterworks)
 Ruins (1987), novella
 The Year Before Yesterday, or Cracken at Critical (1987, Franklin Watts), (1987, Kerosina), (1988, St. Martin's), (1989, New English Library), a fix-up novel based on novelette "Equator" and novella "The Impossible Smile"
 Dracula Unbound (1990, HarperCollins), (1991, Graftton)
 White Mars or, the Mind Set Free (1999, Little, Brown UK), (2000, St. Martin's), with Roger Penrose
 Super-State (2002, Orbit)
 The Cretan Teat (2002)
 Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004)
 Sanity and the Lady (2005, PS Publishing)
 Jocasta (2006, Rose Press)
 A re-telling of Sophocles's Theban tragedies concerning Oedipus and Antigone. In Aldiss's novel, myth and magic are vibrantly real, experienced through an evolving human consciousness. Amidst various competing interpretations of reality, including the appearance of a time-travelling Sophocles, Aldiss provides an alternative explanation of the Sphinx's riddle.
 HARM (2007, del Rey), (2007, Duckworth)
 Campbell Award nominee
 Walcot (2010, Goldmark)
 Family saga spanning the 20th century
 Finches of Mars (2012)
 Comfort Zone (2013)

Short stories
Collections:
 Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957, Faber), (1966, Four Square 1496), (1979, Panther), collection of 14 short stories:
 "T", "Our Kind of Knowledge", "Psyclops", "Conviction", "Not for an Age", "The Shubshub Race", "Criminal Record", "The Failed Men", "Supercity", "There Is a Tide", "Pogsmith", "Outside", "Panel Game", "Dumb Show"
 The Canopy of Time (1959, Faber), (1963, Four Square 821), collection of 10 short stories and 1 novelette:
 "Three's a Cloud", "All the World's Tears", "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Blighted Profile", "Judas Danced", "O, Ishrail!", "Incentive", "Gene-Hive", "Secret of a Mighty City", "They Shall Inherit", "Visiting Amoeba" (novelette)
 The US title Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1960, Signet S1815), (1979 Panther), was a different version, which Aldiss preferred.
 No Time Like Tomorrow (1959, Signet S1683), collection of 11 short stories and 1 novelette:
 "T", "Not for an Age", "Poor Little Warrior!", "The Failed Men", "Carrion Country", "Judas Danced", "Psyclops", "Outside", "Gesture of Farewell" (novelette), "The New Father Christmas", "Blighted Profile", "Our Kind of Knowledge"
 Equator, or Equator and Segregation (1963), collection of 2 novellas/novelettes:
 "Equator" (novella), "Segregation, AKA The Game of God" (novelette)
 The Airs of Earth (1963, Faber), (1965, Four Square 1325), collection of 4 short stories and 4 novelettes:
 "A Kind of Artistry" (novelette), "How to Be a Soldier", "Basis for Negotiation" (novelette), "Shards", "O Moon of My Delight!" (novelette), "The International Smile", "The Game of God" (novelette), "Old Hundredth"
 Starswarm (1963, Signet D2411), collection of 4 short stories and 4 novelettes:
 "Sector Vermilion: A Kind of Artistry" (novelette), "Sector Gray: Hearts and Engines", "Sector Violet: The Underprivileged", "Sector Diamond: The Game of God" (novelette), "Sector Green: Shards", "Sector Yellow: Legends of Smith's Burst" (novelette), "Sector Azure: O Moon of My Delight!" (novelette), "The Rift: Old Hundredth"
 Best SF stories of Brian Aldiss (1965, Faber); US title Who Can Replace a Man? (1965, Harcourt, Brace & World), (1967, Signet P3311), collection of 11 short stories and 3 novelettes:
 "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Not for an Age", "Psyclops", "Outside", "Dumb Show", "The New Father Christmas", "Ahead", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Man on Bridge", "The Impossible Star" (novelette), "Basis for Negotiation" (novelette), "Old Hundredth", "A Kind of Artistry" (novelette), "Man in His Time"
 The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths (1966, Faber), (1968, Sphere), collection of 7 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:
 "The Saliva Tree" (novella), "Danger: Religion!" (novella), "The Source", "The Lonely Habit", "A Pleasure Shared", "One Role with Relish", "Legends of Smith's Burst" (novelette), "The Day of the Doomed King", "Paternal Care", "Girl and Robot with Flowers"
 Title story "The Saliva Tree" was written to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's birth, and shared the Nebula Award for the best novella of 1964. While set in a Wellsian milieu, it contains two plot elements also found in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft: an object from space which causes crops and livestock to grow prolifically, but be unpalatable (The Colour out of Space); and a monster which is visible only when sprayed with an opaque powder (The Dunwich Horror).
 Intangibles Inc. and Other Stories (1969, Faber), (1971, Corgi), collection of 5 novellas/novelettes:
 "Neanderthal Planet" (novelette), "Randy's Syndrome" (novelette), "Send Her Victorious or the War Against the Victorians, 2000 A.D." (novelette), "Intangibles, Inc." (novelette), "Since the Assassination" (novella)
 The Moment of Eclipse (1970, Faber), (1972, Doubleday), (1973, Panther), collection of 12 short stories and 2 novelettes:
 "The Moment of Eclipse", "The Day We Embarked for Cythera...", "Orgy of the Living and the Dying" (novelette), Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", "The Village Swindler", "Down the Up Escalation", "That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art", "Confluence", "Heresies of the Huge God", Clement Yale series (#1 "The Circulation of the Blood" (novelette), #2 "...And the Stagnation of the Heart"), "The Worm That Flies", "Working in the Spaceship Yards", "Swastika!"
 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award
 Neanderthal Planet (1970, Avon), collection of 4 novellas/novelettes:
 "Neanderthal Planet" (novelette), "Danger: Religion!" (novella), "Intangibles, Inc." (novelette), "Since the Assassination" (novelette)
 Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1971), collection of 14 short stories and 2 novelettes:
 "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Not for an Age", "Outside", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Man on Bridge", "The Impossible Star" (novelette), "Old Hundredth", "Man in His Time", "Shards", "Girl and Robot with Flowers", "The Moment of Eclipse", "Swastika!", "Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land" (novelette), "Judas Danced", "Still Trajectories", "Another Little Boy"
 The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972, DAW 29), UK title The Comic Inferno (1973, New English Library), collection of 5 short stories and 4 novelettes:
 "Comic Inferno" (novelette), "The Underprivileged", "Cardiac Arrest" (novelette), "In the Arena", "All the World's Tears", "Amen and Out", "The Soft Predicament" (novelette), "As for Our Fatal Continuity...", "Send Her Victorious" (novelette)
 Last Orders and Other Stories (1977, Jonathan Cape), (1979, Panther), collection of 23 short stories and 1 novelette:
 "Last Orders", "Creatures of Apogee", Enigma series, Three Deadly Enigmas: V: Year by Year the Evil Gains (#1 "Within the Black Circle", #2 "Killing Off the Big Animals", #3 "What Are You Doing? Why Are You Doing It?"), Enigma series, Diagrams For Three (Enigmatic) Stories (#1 "The Girl in the Tau-Dream", #2 "The Immobility Crew", #3 "A Cultural Side-Effect"), "Live? Our Computers Will Do That for Us", "The Monsters of Ingratitude IV", Enigma series, The Aperture Moment (#1 "Waiting for the Universe to Begin", #2 "But Without Orifices", #3 "Aimez-Vous Holman Hunt?"), "Backwater", Enigma series, Three Enigmas II: The Eternal Theme Of Exile (#1 "The Eternal Theme of Exile", #2 "All Those Enduring Old Charms", #3 "Nobody Spoke Or Waved Goodbye"), "The Expensive Delicate Ship", Enigma series, Three Enigmas IV: Three Coins in [Enigmatic|Clockwork] Fountain (#1 "Carefully Observed Women", #2 "The Daffodil Returns the Smile", #3 "The Year of the Quiet Computer"), "Appearance of Life", "Wired for Sound", "Journey to the Heartland" (novelette)
 Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1979, Panther), collection of 9 short stories:
 "The War Millennia", "The Sterile Millennia", "The Robot Millennia", "The Mingled Millennia", "The Dark Millennia", "The Star Millennia", "The Mutant Millennia", "The Megalopolis Millennia", "The Ultimate Millennia"
 Brothers of the Head and Where the Lines Converge (1979), collection of 1 novel, 1 novelette and 6 poems:
 Brothers of the Head (novel), "Big Lover" (poem), "Love Is a Forest" (poem), "Bacterial Action" (poem), "Star-Time" (poem), "Just for a Moment" (poem), "I Was Never Deaf or Blind to Her Music" (poem), "Where The Lines Converge" (novelette)
 New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979, Jonathan Cape), (1980, Harper & Row), (1981, Avon), collection of 9 short stories and 3 novelettes:
 "New Arrivals, Old Encounters", "The Small Stones of Tu Fu", "Three Ways" (novelette), "Amen and Out", "A Spot of Konfrontation", "The Soft Predicament" (novelette), "Non-Isotropic", "One Blink of the Moon", "Space for Reflection", "Song of the Silencer", "Indifference" (novelette), "The Impossible Puppet Show"
 Foreign Bodies (1981), collection of 5 short stories and 1 novelette:
 "A Romance of the Equator", "Boat Animals", "Foreign Bodies", "Frontiers", "The Skeleton", "Just Back From Java" (novelette)
 Bestsellers Vol. 3 No. 9: Best of Aldiss (1983), collection of 10 short stories and 2 novelettes:
 "Oh, For a Closer Brush with God", "Appearance of Life", "The Small Stones of Tu Fu", "The Game with the Big Heavy Ball", "A Romance of the Equator", Enigma series, Three Revolutionary Enigmas (#1 "The Fall of Species B", #2 "In the Halls of the Hereafter", #3 "The Ancestral Home of Thought"), "The Blue Background", "A Private Whale" (novelette), "Consolations of Age", "The Girl Who Sang" (novelette)
 Seasons in Flight (1984, Jonathan Cape), (1986, Atheneum), (1986, Grafton), (1988, Ace), collection of 8 short stories (10 in 1986) and 1 novelette:
 "The Gods in Flight", "A Romance of the Equator", "The Blue Background", "The Girl Who Sang" (novelette), "Igur and the Mountain", "The O in José", "The Other Side of the Lake", "The Plain, the Endless Plain", "Incident in a Far Country"
 Added in 1986: "Consolations of Age", "Juniper"
 Science Fiction Blues Programme Book (1987), collection of 3 short stories and 2 poems:
 "Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life", "The Ascent of Humbelstein", "At the Caligula Hotel" (poem), "Rhine Locks are Closed in Battle Against Poison" (poem), "Those Shouting Nights"
 The Magic of the Past (1987), collection of 2 short stories:
 "North Scarning", "The Magic of the Past"
 Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988), collection of 18 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:
 "Outside", "All the World's Tears", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Man on Bridge", "The Girl and the Robot with Flowers", "The Saliva Tree" (novella), "Man in His Time", "Heresies of the Huge God", "Confluence", "Working in the Spaceship Yards", The Supertoys Trilogy (#1 "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"), "Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land" (novelette), "The Dark Soul of the Night", "Appearance of Life", "Last Orders", "Door Slams in Fourth World", "The Gods in Flight", "My Country 'Tis Not Only of Thee" (novelette), "Infestation", "The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica"
 Best SF Stories (1988), collection of 18 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:
 "Outside", "The Failed Men", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Man on Bridge", "Girl and Robot with Flowers", "The Saliva Tree" (novella), "Man in His Time", "Heresies of the Huge God", "Confluence", "Working in the Spaceship Yards", The Supertoys Trilogy (#1 "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"), "Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land" (novelette), "The Dark Soul of the Night", "Appearance of Life", "Last Orders", "Door Slams in Fourth World", "The Gods in Flight", "My Country 'Tis Not Only of Thee" (novelette), "Infestation", "The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica"
 Man in His Time: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988, Atheneum) , (1990, Collier), collection of 19 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:
 "Outside", "The Failed Men", "All the World's Tears", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Who Can Replace a Man?", "Man on Bridge", "The Girl and the Robot with Flowers", "The Saliva Tree" (novella), "Man in His Time", "Heresies of the Huge God", "Confluence", "Working in the Spaceship Yards", The Supertoys Trilogy (#1 "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"), "Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land" (novelette), "The Dark Soul of the Night", "Appearance of Life", "Last Orders", "Door Slams in Fourth World", "The Gods in Flight", "My Country 'Tis Not Only of Thee" (novelette), "Infestation", "The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica"
 Science Fiction Blues (1988), collection of 3 short stories, 15 poems and 11 plays:
 "Science Fiction Blues (play)" (play), "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (play)" (play), "The Death of Art? (play)" (play), "The Expensive Delicate Ship (play)" (play), "Don't Go To Jupiter" (poem), "Star-Time" (poem), "The Cat Improvement Company" (poem), "Progression of the Species" (poem), "Juniper (play)" (play), "Conversation on Progress (play)" (play), "Drinks with the Spider King (play)" (play), "Three Serials (play)" (play), "Last Orders (play)" (play), "Bill Carter Takes Over (play)" (play), "Talking Heads (play)" (play), "Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life", "The Ascent of Humbelstein", "Those Shouting Nights", "The Lying Truth" (poem), "Destruction of the Fifth Planet" (poem), "The Expanding Universe" (poem), "Bacterial Action" (poem), "To a Triceratops Skull in the British Museum" (poem), "Femalien" (poem), "Space Burial" (poem), "Taking Leave of a Northern Institution" (poem), "Thomas Hardy Considers the Newly-Published Special Theory of Relativity" (poem), "Parting Late in Life" (poem), "Happiness and Suffering" (poem)
 A romance of the Equator. Best Fantasy Stories (1989, Gollancz), (1990, Atheneum / Macmillan) , collection of 22 short stories and 4 novelettes:
 "Old Hundredth", "Day of the Doomed King", "The Source", "The Village Swindler", "The Worm That Flies", "The Moment of Eclips", "So Far from Prague", "The Day We Embarked for Cythera", "Castle Scene with Penitents", "The Game with the Big Heavy Ball", "Creatures of Apogee", "The Small Stones of Tu Fu", "Just Back From Java" (novelette), "A Romance of the Equator", "Journey to the Goat Star" (novelette), "The Girl Who Sang" (novelette), "Consolations of Age", "The Blue Background", "The Plain, the Endless Plain", "You Never Asked My Name", "Lies!" (novelette), "North Scarning", "The Big Question", "The Ascent of Humbelstein", "How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart", "Bill Carter Takes Over"
 Bodily Functions (1991), collection of 2 short stories, 2 novelettes, 2 poems and 1 essay:
 "To Sam" (poem), "Three Degrees Over" (novelette), "A Tupolev Too Far" (novelette), "Going for a Pee", "Better Morphosis", "Letter on the subject of Bowel Movement" (essay), "Envoi" (poem)
 A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories (1993, HarperCollins UK), (1994, St. Martin's), collection of 6 short stories, 5 novelettes and 2 poems:
 "Short Stories" (poem), "A Tupolev Too Far" (novelette), "Ratbird", "FOAM" (novelette), "Summertime Was Nearly Over", "Better Morphosis", "Three Degrees Over" (novelette), "A Life of Matter and Death" (novelette), "A Day in the Life of a Galactic Empire", "Confluence", "Confluence Revisited", "North of the Abyss" (novelette), "Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope" (poem)
 The Secret of This Book (1995, HarperCollins UK), US title Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories (1996, St. Martin's), collection of 20 short stories and 3 novelettes:
 "Common Clay", "The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind", "How the Gates Opened and Closed", "Headless", "Travelling Towards Humbris", "If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy", "Else the Isle with Calibans", "A Swedish Birthday Present", Enigma series, Three Moon Enigmas (#1 "His Seventieth Heaven", #2 "Rose in the Evening", #3 "On the Inland Sea"), "A Dream of Antigone", "The God Who Slept With Women" (novelette), "Evans in His Moment of Glory", "Horse Meat" (novelette), "An Unwritten Love Note", "Making My Father Read Revered Writings", "Sitting With Sick Wasps", "Becoming the Full Butterfly" (novelette), "Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life", Enigma series, Her Toes Were Beautiful on the [Hilltops|Mountains] (#1 "Another Way Than Death", #2 "That Particular Green of Obsequies"), Enigma series, Three Revolutionary Enigmas (#3 "The Ancestral Home of Thought")
 Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time (2001, Orbit), (2001, St. Martin's), collection of 18 short stories and 1 novelette:
 The Supertoys Trilogy (#1 "Supertoys Last All Summer Long", #2 "Supertoys When Winter Comes", #3 "Supertoys in Other Seasons"), "Apogee Again", "III", "The Old Mythyology", "Headless", "Beef", "Nothing in Life Is Ever Enough", "A Matter of Mathematics", "The Pause Button", "Three Types of Solitude", "Steppenpferd", "Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb", "Dark Society", "Galaxy Zee", "Marvells of Utopia", "Becoming the Full Butterfly" (novelette), "A Whiter Mars: A Socratic Dialogue of Times to Come"
 Cultural Breaks (2005, Tachyon Publications), collection of 9 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:
 "Tarzan of the Alps", "Tralee of Man Young", "The Eye Opener", "Aboard the Beatitude" (novelette), "The Man and a Man with His Mule", "Dusk Flight", "Commander Calex Killed, Fire and Fury at the Edge of World, Scones Perfect", "The Hibernators", "The National Heritage", "How the Gates Opened and Closed", "Total Environment" (novelette), "A Chinese Perspective" (novella)
 A Prehistory of Mind (2008, Mayapple Press), collection of
 55 poems in three sections:
 Far Away: "The Deceptive Truth", "Flight 063", "Breugel's Hunters in the Snow", "Tien Shan", "The Kremlin, Moscow, ca. 1950", "Of All the Places", "The Moment", "Winter", "Journeying", "Rapide des morts", "The Cynar, Istanbul", "Exmoor in September", "On Passing a Roadside Auction of Featherbeds", "April in East Coker", "Gaughin's Tahiti", "Monemvasia"
 Affection: "The Heavy Cup", "Spinal Metaphors", "Comfort Me, Sweetheart", "Get Out of My Life", "Being a Little Well", "This Brown Leaf", "Leaving Our Common Bed", "Rest Your Weary Head Upon Your Pillow", "The Empty Boxes", "Greed", "The First of March 1998", "Margaret's Questions", "Song: In Bed She Like a Lily Lay", "Jocasta", "Lu Tai", "Rondeau After Leigh Hunt", "A Piece of Cleopatra", "Aral Seasons", "At the Caligula Hotel"
 Observation: "The Prehistory of the Mind", "Volcano", "Perspectives", "The Cat Improvement Company", "Winter Bites Deep", "The Bonfire of Time", "Iceberg Music", "The Bellowings", "Jackie", "The Bare Facts", "Nocturne", "An Interval", "Fairy Tales", "The Foot Speaks", "The Women", "Bosom Friends", "Colour Contrasts", "Uzbecks in London", "Antigone's Song", "A. E. van Vogt"
 1 short story: "Mortistan"
 The Invention of Happiness (2013), collection of 33 short stories:
 "The Invention of Happiness", "Beyond Plato's Cave", "Old Mother", "Belief", "After the Party", "Our Moment of Appearance", "The Bone Show", "The Great Plains", "What Befell the Tadpole", "The Sand Castle", "The Village of Stillthorpe", "Peace and War", "The Vintage Cottage", "Moderns on Ancient Ancestors", "The Hungers of an Old Language", "How High is a Cathedral?", "A Middle Class Dinner", "Flying Singapore Airlines", "The Apology", "Camões", "The Question of Atmosphere", "Illusions of Reality", "Lady with Apple Trees", "Flying and Bombing", "Molly Smiles Forever", "Days Gone By", "The Last of the Hound-Folk", "Munch", "The Music of Sound", "The Silent Cosmos", "Writings on the Rock", "The Light Really", "The Mistake They Made"
 The Brian Aldiss Collection:
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s (2013), collection of 57 short stories and 8 novellas/novelettes:
 "A Book in Time", "Criminal Record", "Breathing Space", "The Great Time Hiccup", "Not for an Age", "Our Kind of Knowledge", "Outside", "Panel Game", "Pogsmith", "Conviction", "Dumb Show", "The Failed Men", "Non-Stop" (novelette), "Psyclops", "T", "There Is a Tide", "Tradesman's Exit", "With Esmond in Mind", "The Flowers of the Forest", "Gesture of Farewell" (novelette), "The Ice Mass Cometh", "Let's Be Frank", "No Gimmick", "The War Millennia", "Out of Reach", "The Sterile Millennia", "All the World's Tears", "The Dark Millennia", "O Ishrail!", "The Ultimate Millennia", "Visiting Amoeba" (novelette), "The Shubshub Race", "Supercity", "Judas Danced", "Ten-Storey Jigsaw", "The Pit My Parish" (novelette), "Blighted Profile", "Who Can Replace a Man?", "The Carp That Once ...", "Carrion Country", "Equator" (novella), "Fourth Factor" (novelette), "The Megalopolis Millennia", "Secret of a Mighty City", "The Star Millennia", "Incentive", "The Mutant Millennia", "Gene-Hive", "The New Father Christmas", "Ninian's Experiences", "Poor Little Warrior!", "Sector Diamond", "Sight of a Silhouette", "They Shall Inherit", "Are You an Android?", "The Arm", "The Bomb-Proof Bomb", "Fortune's Fool", "Intangibles, Inc." (novelette), "Sector Yellow", "The Lieutenant", "The Other One" (novelette), "Safety Valve", "The Towers of San Ampa", "Three's a Cloud"
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) (2015), collection of 11 short stories and 6 novellas/novelettes:
 "Faceless Card", "Neanderthal Planet" (novelette), "Old Hundredth", "Original Sinner", "Sector Grey", "Stage-Struck!", "Under an English Heaven", "Hen's Eyes", "Sector Azure" (novelette), "A Pleasure Shared", "Basis for Negotiation" (novelette), "Conversation Piece", "Danger: Religion!" (novella), "The Green Leaves of Space", "Sector Green", "Sector Vermilion" (novelette), "Tyrants' Territory" (novelette)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) (2015), collection of 10 short stories and 6 novellas/novelettes:
 "Comic Inferno" (novelette), "The Impossible Star" (novelette), "In the Arena", "The International Smile", "Sector Violet", "Skeleton Crew" (novella), "The Thing Under the Glacier", "Counter-Feat", "Jungle Substitute" (novelette), "Lazarus", "Man on Bridge", "Never Let Go of My Hand!", "No Moon To-night!" (novelette), "One-Way Strait", "Pink Plastic Gods", "Unauthorised Persons" (novelette)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 3) (2015), collection of 18 short stories, 3 novellas/novelettes and 1 essay:
 "The Day of the Doomed King", "The Girl and the Robot with Flowers", "How are they All on Deneb IV?" (essay), "The Impossible Smile" (novelette), "Man in His Time", "Old Time's Sake", "The Saliva Tree" (novella), "Scarfe's World", "The Small Betraying Detail", "The Source", "Amen and Out", "Another Little Boy", "Burning Question", Clement Yale series (#1 "The Circulation of the Blood" (novelette)), "The Eyes of the Blind King", "Heresies of the Huge God", "Lambeth Blossom", "The Lonely Habit", "The O in José", "One Role with Relish", "Paternal Care", "The Plot Sickens"
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4) (2015), collection of 28 short stories, 7 novellas/novelettes and 1 essay:
 "A Difficult Age", "A Taste for Dostoevsky", "Auto-Ancestral Fracture" (novelette), "Confluence", "The Dead Immortal", "Down the Up Escalation", "Full Sun", "Just Passing Through", "Multi-Value Motorway", "The Night That All Time Broke Out", "Randy's Syndrome" (novelette), "Still Trajectories", "Two Modern Myths: Reflection on Mars and Ultimate Construction", "Wonder Weapon", Clement Yale series (#2 "...And the Stagnation of the Heart"), "Drake-Man Route", "Dreamer, Schemer", "Dream of Distance" (essay), "Send Her Victorious" (novelette), "The Serpent of Kundalini", "The Tell-Tale Heart-Machine", "Total Environment" (novelette), "The Village Swindler", "When I Was Very Jung", "The Worm That Flies", Jerry Cornelius series ("The Firmament Theorem"), "Greeks Bringing Knee-High Gifts", "The Humming Heads", "The Moment of Eclipse", "Ouspenski's Astrabahn" (novelette), "Since the Assassination" (novella), "So Far from Prague", "The Soft Predicament" (novelette), The Supertoys Trilogy (#1 "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"), "That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art", "Working in the Spaceship Yards"
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 1) (2016)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 2) (2016)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 1) (2016)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 2) (2016)
 The Complete Short Stories: The 1990s (2016)

Uncollected short stories:

 "Index to Life" (1954)
 "Ultimate Construction" (1967), as C. C. Shackleton
 "The Hunter at His Ease" (1970)
 "The Secret of Holman Hunt and the Crude Death Rate" (1970)
 "The Weather on Demansky Island" (1970)
 "The Day Equality Broke Out" (1971)
 "Manuscript Found in a Police State" (1972)
 "The Ergot Show" (1972)
 "Strange in a Familiar Way" (1973)
 "The Planet at the Bottom of the Garden" (1973)
 "Serpent Burning on an Altar" (1973)
 "The Young Soldier's Horoscope" (1973)
 "Woman in Sunlight with Mandolin" (1973)
 Enigma series:
 Three Enigmas I:
 "The Enigma of Her Voyage" (1973)
 "I Ching, Who You?" (1973)
 "The Great Chain of Being What?" (1973)
 Three Enigmas II: The Eternal Theme Of Exile:
 "The Eternal Theme of Exile" (1973)
 "All Those Enduring Old Charms" (1973)
 "Nobody Spoke Or Waved Goodbye" (1973)
 Three Enigmas III: All in God's Mind:
 "The Unbearableness of Other Lives" (1974)
 "The Old Fleeing and Fleeting Images" (1974)
 "Looking on the Sunny Side of an Eclipse" (1974)
 Diagrams For Three (Enigmatic) Stories:
 "The Girl in the Tau-Dream" (1974)
 "The Immobility Crew" (1974)
 "A Cultural Side-Effect" (1974)
 Three Songs for Enigmatic Lovers:
 "A One-Man Expedition Through Life" (1974)
 "The Taste of Shrapnel" (1974)
 "40 Million Miles from the Nearest Blonde" (1974)
 Three Enigmas IV: Three Coins in [Enigmatic|Clockwork] Fountain:
 "Carefully Observed Women" (1975)
 "The Daffodil Returns the Smile" (1975)
 "The Year of the Quiet Computer" (1975)
 Three Deadly Enigmas: V: Year by Year the Evil Gains:
 "Within the Black Circle" (1975)
 "Killing Off the Big Animals" (1975)
 "What Are You Doing? Why Are You Doing It?" (1975)
 The Aperture Moment:
 "Waiting for the Universe to Begin" (1975)
 "But Without Orifices" (1975)
 "Aimez-Vous Holman Hunt?" (1975)
 Three Revolutionary Enigmas:
 "The Fall of Species B" (1980)
 "In the Halls of the Hereafter" (1980)
 "The Ancestral Home of Thought" (1980)
 Her Toes Were Beautiful on the [Hilltops|Mountains]:
 "Another Way Than Death" (1992)
 "That Particular Green of Obsequies" (1992)
 Three Moon Enigmas:
 "His Seventieth Heaven" (1995)
 "Rose in the Evening" (1995)
 "On the Inland Sea" (1995)
 "I dreamed I was Jung last night" (1974)
 "Melancholia has a Plastic Core" (1974)
 "Always Somebody There" (1975)
 "Excommunication" (1975)
 "How Did the Dinosaurs Do It?" (1976)
 "In the Mist of Life" (1977)
 "The Bang-Bang" (1977), novelette
 "My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows" (1977)
 "Yin, Yang and Jung: Three Galactic Enigmas" (1978)
 "Modernisation" (1980)
 "End Game" (1981)
 "Call Yourself a Christian" (1982)
 "How the Boy Icarus Grew Up and, After a Legendary Disaster, Learnt New Things About Himself and the External World, Until He Was Able to Comprehend the Magic That Had Been His in His Earliest Years /or/ Second Flight" (1982)
 "Parasites of Passion" (1982)
 "The Captain's Analysis" (1982)
 "An Admirer of Einstein" (1983)
 "The Immortal Storm Strikes Again" (1983)
 "Another Story on the Theme of the Last Man on Earth" (1985)
 "Domestic Catastrophe" (1985)
 "Operation Other Cheek" (1985)
 "Possessed by Love" (1985)
 "Silence After the Silence" (1985)
 "The Greatest Saga of All Time" (1985), as C. C. Shackleton
 "The Monster of Loch Awe" (1985)
 "The Fatal Break" (1987)
 "The Hero" (1987)
 "The Merdeka Hotel" (1987)
 "The Price of Cabbages" (1987)
 "Thursday" (1987)
 "Tourney" (1987)
 "Conversation on Progress" (1988)
 "Hess" (1988)
 "Sex and the Black Machine" (1988)
 "Wordsworth Halucinates" (1988)
 "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1989)
 "Adventures in the Fur Trade" (1990)
 "People—Alone—Injury—Artwork" (1991)
 "Kindred Blood in Kensington Gore" (1992)
 "Softly – As in an Evening Sunrise" (1992)
 "English Garden" (1993)
 "Friendship Bridge" (1993), novelette
 "The Servant Problem" (1994)
 "The Monster of Everyday Life" (1994)
 "The Madonna of Futurity" (1994), novella
 "Into the Tunnel!" (1995)
 "Compulsory Holidays For All" (1995)
 "The Law Against Trivia" (1996)
 "The Enigma of the Three Moons" (1997)
 "Death, Shit, Love, Transfiguration" (1997)
 "An Apollo Asteroid" (1999)
 "The Rain Will Stop" (2000, The Pretentious Press), written in 1942
 "A Single-Minded Artist" (2001)
 "Happiness in Reverse" (2001)
 "Talking Cubes" (2001)
 Supertoys series:
 "Supertoys: Play Can Be So Deadly" (2001)
 "Supertoys: What Fun to Be Reborn" (2001)
 "A New (governmental) Father Christmas", or "A New (governmental) Father Christmas: A Moral Tale for All in Headington" (2002)
 "Near Earth Object" (2002)
 "Ten Billion of Them" (2005)
 "Pipeline" (2005), novelette
 "Building Sixteen" (2006)
 "Tiger in the Night" (2006)
 "Safe!" (2006)
 "Life, Learning, Leipzig and a Librarian" (2007)
 "Four Ladies of the Apocalypse" (2007)
 "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" (2008)
 "Fandom at the Palace" (2008)
 "The First-Born" (2010)
 "Hapless Humanity" (2010)
 Doctor Who series:
 "Umwelts for Hire" (2010), Doctor Who Brilliant Book 2011 (2010, BBC Books, )
 "Benkoelen" (2011)
 "Less Than Kin, More Than Kind" (2011)
 "The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing" (2013)
 "Abundances Above" (2016)

Poems
Collections:
 Farewell to a Child (1982), collection of 10 poems:
 "Found", "Lost", "The Commitment", "When We Were Four", "With Vacant Possession", "The Child Departs: a dialogue", "The Eternal Child", "The Frozen Boy", "The Haunting", "The Malediction"
 Home Life With Cats (1992), collection of 34 poems:
 "Out of the Night", "The Cats' Heaven", "Kittens (Two)", "Slaves", "Where Have You Been?", "Yum-Yum", "Heatwave", "Cats' Nerves", "Foxie", "Jackson", "Town-Life", "Nickie", "The Two-Kitten Problem", "Macramé's Lament", "Travelling Cats", "The Cat Improvement Company", "On a Favourite Goldfish Drowned in a Bowl of Cats", "Portrait of a Cat with Lady", "An Evening at Home", "Tatty's Tie-Shop", "Snacks", "Who Owns the House?", "A Riddle", "How I Swam Out to Sea with My Cat", "A Lion for Tea", "The Cat in the Cathedral", "The Poor Man's Cat", "Mutual Regard", "First Birthday", "Rules", "Relating to the Pet", "The Cat Speaks", "Michael, the Cycling Cat", "The Lost Grave"
 At the Caligula Hotel and Other Poems (1995), collection of 74 poems, grouped in four sections:
 I. Imagery?: "At the Caligula Hotel", Chinese Exercises ("Lu Tai", "Nocturne", "Interval", "Indecision", "Journeying", "Poems from a Later Dynasty III: Who Hears My Voice?"), "Exit Aquascutum", "While Feeding Parrots", "Winter Bites Deep", "Breughel's Hunters in the Snow", "Anau: The Well", "The Cynar, Istanbul", "Dawn in Kuala Lumpur", "Gauguin's Tahiti"
 II. Everyday?: "No, I was Never Deaf or Blind to Her Music", "Toledo: Three Ladies", "Government", "Moonglow: for Margaret", "Alfie Cogitates on Life", "Memories of Palic", "Boars Hill: the Sycamores and the Oaks", "All Things Transfigure", "Trapped in the Present", "The Path", "Suburban Sunday", "Nature Notes: Early September", "Willow Cottage", "Cold Snap", "Stoney Ground", "The Triumph of the Superficial", "The Twentieth Camp", "Good Fortune", "Communication", "A Summery Meditation on Money", "A Moment of Suspense", "Fragment of a Longer Poem"
 III. Literary?: "Short Stories", "What Did the Policeman Say?", "Hamlet Folk", "The Poor", "On Reading Poetry in Berkhamsted", "Poem Inspired by Scott Meredith", Two Painters ("I: Francis Bacon", "II: Fernand Khnopff"), "Light of Ancient Days", "Mary Shelley, 1916", "Victor Frankenstein on the Mer de Glace", "The Shelleys – To a Lady who spoke of their 'Mystery", "The Created One Speaks", "Mary in Italy", "Looking It Up", "Rice Pudding", "Writer's Life"
 IV. Scientific?: "Greenhouse Sex", "Lunar Anatomy", "Monemvasia", "Found", "Destruction of the Fifth Planet", "Femalien", "Thomas Hardy Considers the Newly-Published Special Theory of Relativity", "Rhine Locks are Closed in Battle Against Poison", "The Cat Improvement Company", "The Expanding Universe", "To a Triceratops Skull in the British Museum", "The Light", "Flight 063", Precarious Passions ("I: A Brain Pursues its Vanished Dream", "II: A Woman Marries the Southern Ocean", "III: Ascension Island Courts a Whale", "IV: A Refrigerator Proposes to a Musk Ox", "V: A Book Falls in Love with its Reader", "VI: A Lamp Standard Courts the Stars"), "Alphabet of Ameliorating Hope"
 Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia: The Collected Poems of Makhtumkuli: Eighteenth Century Poet-Hero of Turkmenistan (1995)
 A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death (2000, The Frogmore Papers), collection of 7 poems
 At a Bigger House (2002), collection of 48 poems:
 "Hazards of the Trail", "Perspectives", "Presentiments of Dawn", "Now Showing: 'Killing Father", "The World of Lost Content", "Flight 063", "Railway Engine Pulling Slowly", "The Deceptive Truth", "Colour Contrasts", "Fairy Tales", "The Women", "They Who Waited", "The Bonfire of Time", "The Foot Speaks", "The Ghost Koi", "Rapide des Morts", "The Teeth of Time", "Elizabeth Jennings (Died October 2001)", "War and Peace': A Song for Mathilde Mauguiere", "Her Beautiful Thing", "The Hunters in the Snow", "Aral Seasons", "Uzbecks in London", "Poem from Life in the West", "Many Mansions", "The Horse Unburied", "The Red Pavilion", "Blythborough Church, A Hardyesque Dialogue", "Insomnia", "Awake at Three A.M.", "The Start of Something", "Retrospection: At the Temple of Aphaia, on the Island of Aegina, Greece", "Hors d'Oeuvres for my Lady", "The Barney", "Dawn in KL", "A Funeral Service: Kingsley Amis, 31st October 1995", "On Passing a Roadside Auction of Featherbeds, Lake District, 1845", "City Scene", "The Prehistory of the Mind", "April in East Coker", "Seeking Love", "The New Wing", "Xenophilia", "Name-Dripping", "Dora/Dinah", "Volcano", "Monemvasia", "The Moment"
 The Dark Sun Rises (2002), collection of 50 poems:
 "The Dark Sun Rises", "Venice and Istanbul", "Perspectives", "Monemvasia", "The Deceptive Truth", "The Moment", "On Passing a Roadside Auction of Featherbeds, Lake District, 1845", "Retrospection: At the Temple of Aphaia, on the Island of Aegina, Greece", "Rapide des Morts", "Flight 063", "Aral Seasons", "Uzbecks in London", "Poem from Life in the West", "Insomnia", "Meum Tuumque", "Partings from Oedipus on Mars", "The Barney", "Blythborough Church, A Hardyesque Dialogue", "Not Speaking of You", "The Silent Love", "War and Peace': A Song for Mathilde Mauguiere", "Her Beautiful Thing", "Rondeau after Leigh Hunt", "Jocasta", "Jane Eyre at Elsinore", "The Carnivores", "The Garden at Number Thirty-Nine", "The Horse Unburied", "The Garden", "In the RA Friends' Room June '95", "They Who Waited", "Colour Contrasts", "The Red Pavilion", "The Women", "Hazards of the Trail", "Many Mansions", "The Start of Something", "The Prehistory of the Mind", "The World of Lost Content", "Volcano", "Dendrochronology", "The Foot Speaks", "Fairy Tales", "Now Showing: 'Killing Father", "A Piece of Cleopatra", "Cliché Love", "Eatin' Regular Again': A Pop Song", "The Cat Improvement Company", "At the Caligula Hotel", "untitled (re: myth of Santa Claus)"
 Mortal Morning (2011)

Uncollected poems:

 "There Are No More Good Stories About Mars Because We Need No More Good Stories About Mars" (1963)
 "Bridging Hours in Wesciv" (1969)
 "Drama on the River Cherwell" (1974)
 "Epitaph for a Writer" (1974)
 "In Another Town: Bologna" (1974)
 "Innovation in the Arts" (1974)
 "Mon Frère" (1974)
 "Taking Leave of a Cold Country" (1974)
 "The Lady Literary Agent" (1974)
 "Verse in a Country Garden" (1974)
 "Summer: 1773" (1976)
 "Pile: Petals from St. Klaed's Computer" (1979)
 "Sleep" (1983)
 "Tra La" (1994)

Plays

 Patagonia's Delicious Filling Station: Three One-act Plays (1975), collection
 Enigma series:
 The Bones of Bertrand Russell: A Tryptich of Absurd Enigmatic Plays:
 "Futurity Takes a Hand" (1976)
 "Through a Galaxy Backwards" (1976)
 "Where Walls Are Hung with Multi-Media Portraits" (1976)
 Distant Encounters (1978)

Not categorised fiction
 Courageous New Planet (c. 1984)

Non-fiction
Autobiographies

 ... And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986), articles and autobiography
 Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's: A Writing Life (1990)
 The Twinkling of an Eye, or My Life as an Englishman (1998)
 When the Feast is Finished (1999), with Margaret Aldiss
 An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections (2012), articles and autobiography

Science fiction
 The Shape of Further Things, or The Shape of Further Things: Speculation on Change (1970)
 Billion Year Spree series:
 Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973)
 BSFA special award
 Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986), with David Wingrove, a revised and expanded version of Billion Year Spree
 Winner of the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. At the awards ceremony, Aldiss began his acceptance speech by holding the Hugo aloft and proclaiming, to general approbation, "It's been a long time since you've given me one of these, you bastards!"
 SF Horizons (1975), with Harry Harrison
 Science Fiction as Science Fiction (1978)
 Science Fiction Quiz (1983)
 The Pale Shadow of Science, or Pale Shadow of Science (1985), collected essays
 The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1995)
Others

 Cities and Stones: A Traveller's Yugoslavia (1966)
 Item Eighty-Three: Brian W. Aldiss – A Bibliography 1954–1972 (1972), with Margaret Aldiss, a bibliography of Aldiss's published works, this book being number 83
 Science Fiction Art (1975)
 This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar (1979)
 Art After Apogee (2000), with Rosemary Phipps, essays
 Researches and Churches in Serbia (2002), collection of 9 articles

Anthologies edited

 Penguin Science Fiction series:
 Penguin Science Fiction (1961)
 More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
 Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964)
 Omnibus edition, The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
 Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
 Introducing SF (1964)
 Nebula Award Stories Two (1967), with Harry Harrison
 Farewell, Fantastic Venus (1968)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction series, with Harry Harrison:
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 1 (1968)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2, or Best SF: 1968 (1969)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3, or Best SF: 1969 (1970)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 4 (1971)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 5 (1972)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6, or Best SF: 1972 (1973)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7, or Best SF: 1973 (1974)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8 (1976)
 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 9, or The Year's Best SF 9 (1976)
 Space Opera (1974)
 Space Odysseys (1975)
 Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers (1975), with Harry Harrison, a collection of short autobiographical pieces by a number of science fiction writers, including Aldiss. The title is a reference to Kingsley Amis's survey of science fiction, New Maps of Hell.
 Decade series, with Harry Harrison:
 Decade: the 1940s (1975)
 Decade: the 1950s (1976)
 Decade: the 1960s (1979)
 Evil Earths (1976)
 Galactic Empires series:
 Galactic Empires. Volume One (1976)
 Galactic Empires. Volume Two (1976)
 Perilous Planets (1978)
 Mini Sagas: From The Daily Telegraph Competition series:
 Mini Sagas: From The Daily Telegraph Competition (1998)
 Mini Sagas: From The Daily Telegraph Competition 2001 (2001)
 A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
 The Folio Science Fiction Anthology (2016)

Adaptations
 Frankenstein Unbound (1990), film directed by Roger Corman, based on novel Frankenstein Unbound
 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"
 Brothers of the Head (2005), film directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, based on novel Brothers of the Head

See also

References

External links

 Brian Aldiss at British Council: Literature

 Obituary in The Independent by Marcus Williamson
 Guardian newspaper profile
 Brian Aldiss's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
 "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" story by Brian Aldiss (January 1997)
 Brian Aldiss Collection  at the University of South Florida
 Brian Aldiss Papers at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
 Works of Brian W. Aldiss at La Tercera Fundación
 Works of Brian W. Aldiss at FantLab ru

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Chronophilia is a form of paraphilia where someone is sexually attracted to a particular age group or at least has a sexual preference for them. It is normally restricted to specific age groups.

Chronophilia Types

Attraction to children
Nepiophilia (sometimes called Infantophilia) is a sub-type of pedophilia describing the sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children which is restricted to infancy (referring to babies/toddlers ranging from ages 0-3)

Pedophilia: is the sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children which are children who have not begun puberty (Usually under 13 years old).

Attraction to adolescents
Hebephilia: is the sexual attraction to early adolescent (pubescent) youth (ranging from ages 11 to 14). Due to the varying onset of puberty, there is overlap between pedophilia and hebephilia.

Ephebophilia: is the sexual attraction to post-pubescent mid-to-late teens (ranging from ages 15 to 19).

Attraction to adults
Teleiophilia: is the sexual attraction to young adults. (Ranging from the early 20s to late 30s)

Mesophilia: is the sexual attraction to middle-aged adults. (Ranging from early 40s to 60s)

Gerontophilia: is the sexual attraction to old people. (From ages 65 and older)

Both ranges
Pedohebephilia: is the proposed sexual attraction to both pre-pubescent children and early adolescent youth.

Hebe-ephebophilia: is the attraction to both early adolescent youth and mid to late adolescent youth.

Sociology
Paraphilias

Chronophilia


Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian politician. He was the Chief Justice of Iran from 1999 to 2009. He was born in Najaf, Iraq.

Ayatollah Shahroudi was best known for ordering a moratorium on stoning as a form of the death penalty. However, later it was shown that executions by stoning are still being carried out, in spite of his claims that they have stopped. Stoning is still happening inside prisons, where the public cannot see it.

From August 2017 to December 2018, Shahroudi was Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council.

He died on 24 December 2018 from cancer in Tehran at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
 Text: Human Rights Watch Protests Media Crackdown, Detentions in Iran  (April 2000)
 Iran veil crackdown criticised APRIL 24, 2007

Chief Justices of Iran
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Georg Poplutz is a German tenor, a soloist in Baroque music, opera and oratorio, and a Lied singer. He has been a member of vocal ensembles such as Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and Cantus Cölln, and has participated in a project to record the complete works of Heinrich Schütz.

Career
Poplutz was born in Arnsberg. He studied pedagogy for English and Music at the Münster University and the Dortmund University. He studied voice with Berthold Possemeyer at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. After further studies with Christoph Prégardien at the Musikhochschule Köln, he graduated in 2007 with the concert exam.

Poplutz made his operatic debut at the Theater Gießen in 2004, in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. In 2005 he recorded the part of Balouard in Étienne Méhul's opera L'irato, conducted by ). In the field of historically informed performance, Poplutz has collaborated as a soloist with conductors such as Marcus Creed, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Peter Neumann (de), Ralf Otto, Wolfgang Schäfer and Winfried Toll. In 2005, he sang tenor parts in Bach cantatas with Martin Lutz conducting performances in services in the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden and the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt, documented in a recording of Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104. He was awarded the Mendelssohn-Preis of the Frankfurt Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, founded by , in 2009, and performed the tenor solo part in the composer's oratorio Elias with the , conducted by Christmann, in the Alte Oper. With them, he was in 2011 a soloist in Paulus, along with Elisabeth Scholl and conducted by Mathias Breitschaft. In 2013, he recorded the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio (parts 4 to 6) with the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke, conducted by Wolfgang Kläsener. He sang the tenor solo in Bach's Mass in B minor in St. Martin, Idstein, with the orchestra L'arpa festante conducted by Franz Fink. In 2014, he performed cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann with the Rheinische Kantorei, conducted by Hermann Max, at festivals such as the Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage.

Poplutz has been a member of the vocal ensembles Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, conducted by Arno Paduch, which performed for example in 2012 the first performance after 250 years of the Missa solemnis by Joseph Schmitt in Eberbach Abbey, where he had worked, as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival. Poplutz has been a member of the ensemble Cantus Cölln, conducted by Konrad Junghänel. He has appeared as a soloist with the Dresdner Kammerchor, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, in the complete recording of the works by Heinrich Schütz. A reviewer noted about the eight soloists performing Kleine geistliche Konzerte 1 (Little Sacred Concertos): "Whether solo, duo or in other combinations the voices are finely scaled, appropriately clear, purely focused and idiomatic".

As a recitalist of Lieder, especially of romantic songs, Poplutz has collaborated with pianist Hilko Dumno. A review of a concert of Schubert's Winterreise noted, that the singer, with an absolutely secure voice and attention to diction, created an intense atmosphere full of tension ("eine dichte, spannungsvolle Atmosphäre"), an "entire cosmos of emotions".

References

External links

 Georg Poplutz recordings for Carus-Verlag

Living people
People from Arnsberg
German operatic tenors
German performers of early music
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni
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The Kuznetsov NK-86 is a low bypass turbofan engine used on the Ilyushin Il-86 rated at 13,000 kgf or 28,600 lbf (127 KN) thrust. It is made by the Soviet Kuznetsov Design Bureau. It is an upgraded version of the Kuznetsov NK-8.

Design and development
In 1974, the Minister of Aviation Industry P.V.Dementev ordered ND Kuznetsov to start the development of the engine for the first Soviet wide-body passenger aircraft – Ilyushin Il-86. Kuznetsov was by then intensely engaged with the improvement of OKB military engines destined for Tu-22M and did not have the resources available to fulfill the requirements and the strict deadline set for the IL-86 program. Kuznetsov decided not to create a clean sheet turbofan design because of time and resource constraints but rather to try to improve and upgrade the Kuznetsov NK-8 turbofan engine by improving several of its characteristics. However, from the outset the chief designer made it clear to the Minister and warned that the fuel economy and power output delivered by the proposed NK-86 will most certainly fall short of contemporary foreign engines. This was due in part to the low values of the turbine inlet gas temperatures and the pressure ratio attained – both of which were unsatisfactory because of limited production technology at that time. Testing began on the NK-86 engine in April 1979.

In 1987, improvements were introduced and designated the model name NK-86A. The modifications and improvements made to the original NK-86 included the addition of monocrystalline rotor blades on the first stage of the turbine, thus improving the turbine inlet temperature to 1280K. The takeoff thrust was also improved to 13.300 kgf (29.260 lbf), while the TBO was increased to 4.000 hrs from the original 3.000 hrs. Also, eight engines were modified to version NK-87 (with corrosion-and heat-resistant coatings, providing reliable operation in the marine environment) which were used to power the Soviet ground effect vehicle also known as Ekranoplans. NK-87 was particularly used in powering the Lun-class ekranoplan which was actively designed as a combat missile launcher.

Specification (NK-86)

References

Low-bypass turbofan engines
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Kuznetsov NK-86


Demetrius () is an incomplete drama by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Demetrius, briefly Russian czar between 1604 and 1605. It is a reflection on the individual's responsibility in history and on the rule of Napoleon. Schiller worked on the play from 1804 to 1805, but it was left unfinished on his death and was only premiered on 15 February 1857 at the Hoftheater in Weimar.

Dramatis personae
 Sigismund, King of Poland
 Archbishop of Gniezno, Primus of the Empire
 Prince Leo Sapieha
 Demetrius, false son of Czar Ivan
 Mnischek, Prince of Sendomir
 Marina, Mnischek's daughter
 Marfa, widow of Czar Ivan

Plot

In a speech before the Polish diet, Demetrius asserts his claim to the throne of the czars. He hopes for assistance from Poland. He declares that he is the son of Ivan the Terrible and was not, as reputed, murdered in 1591 as a child, but raised in a cloister and that he afterward was in the service of the Prince of Sendomir. He asserts that he is Czar Demetrius. His impressive speech convinces both the diet and the king. Although a formal resolution is not passed by the diet because of a veto by Prince Sapiehas, Poland goes into battle against Moscow. The Poles desire to oust Boris Godunov with the help of the upstart Demetrius. The forceful spirit behind the attempt is Demetrius' fiancée Marina, Mnischek's daughter, and Czar Ivan's widow. The latter has been banned to a cloister by Godunov and has for years been grieving for her allegedly murdered son when she receives the news that Demetrius is alive, after all.

Schiller only indicated the course of the further action. Boris hears about the successes of Demetrius and commits suicide with poison. The new czar is a benevolent ruler until he discovers that his claim to the throne is not legitimate. He is not Ivan's son, but was merely used as a tool by the faction of Godunov opponents. When his mother Marfa is supposed to provide identification, she does not recognize him. Despite the lacking legitimation, Demetrius requests her to recognize him as her son. But Marfa follows her conscience and refuses.

Schiller's work on Demetrius

According to his diary, his efforts can be divided into four phases:

First phase, 10 March to 21 April 1804: Schiller makes a note of the cast of Demetrius and his plans for developing the roles of Marfa and Marina.

Second phase, 22 May to 22 July 1804: Schiller collects information on the historical context of the play and continues to work on the exposition of the drama. An originally planned Sambor act was later rejected and replaced with the scene at the diet. On 22 July 1804, Schiller interrupted his work on Demetrius to begin writing The Princess of Zelle. Also because of illness he only continued working on Demetrius in mid-November 1804.

Third phase, Mid-November to 10 December 1804: Schiller debates whether to work on the "Demetrius drama" or "Warbeck" and decides in favor of the former. Before that time he had, off and on, worked on both dramatic fragments. He settled on a precise arrangement of scenes for Demetrius.

Fourth phase, 20 January to 1 May 1805: Schiller completes the first act. There are only rough outlines for the further course of the drama.

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Anna Wang is a founder of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN), a co-founder of Autism Parents Task Force, and the founder of Dream Achievers Band.  A founder is a person who starts an organization. FCSN opened in Fremont, California, in 2006.

Wang is married to Albert Wang. They have three kids. Lawrence Wang is the middle child and was diagnosed with autism at a young age. Wang talks about how in Chinese communities, people don't talk about their kids with special needs. When Wang figured out her son had autism, she did not know what to do. Over time, she found a therapist for her son. Soon, other families learned how Wang was taking care of her son. This inspired other families with children that had special needs to meet up. Soon, five families met up to talk about their children with autism. These meetings were the start of Friends of Children with Special Needs. Friends of Children with Special Needs officially opened in 2006 making Fremont its headquarters. Dream Achievers Band is a group of kids with autism that play music.

Wang was an electrical engineer, and her husband was a doctor.

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Roy A. Cheville (October 2, 1897–April 6, 1986) was a religious leader, theologian and educator in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church), which became Community of Christ in 2001. Cheville graduated from Graceland University in 1921 with an Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree in liberal arts and religious education. In 1926, he authored Graceland's Alma Mater Hymn while on the faculty.  He obtained his Ph. B. in 1922, an A.M in Divinity in 1923, a D.B. in Practical Theology in 1925, and later a Ph.D. in religion in 1942, all from the University of Chicago. He was the first member of his denomination to complete a doctoral level religious education.

Cheville was regarded as an influential professor of Religion at Graceland from 1923 to 1960 and also served as the campus pastor. Cheville taught many introductory religion courses from his own text, "Growing Up In Religion" stressing that a view of God restricted to scriptural and doctrinal traditions was too small and confining.

Cheville was called to the office of Presiding Patriarch in the RLDS Church in 1958 by W. Wallace Smith and was the first person to serve in that office who was not a direct descendant of Joseph Smith In that role, he presided over the Order of Evangelists, which had 89 members at that time. He authored more than 345 articles, 20 pamphlets and 25 books on Christian family life, spirituality, church history, theology, scriptures, and other religious topics. He was an authority on the subject of religious socialization, but his position at Graceland University and later as Presiding Patriarch provided him with a platform from which he could be heard on a wide variety of subjects. His 1962 text "Did the Light Go Out?" represented a turn away from the traditional RLDS viewpoint regarding the Great Apostasy. He wrote numerous hymn texts published in Hymns of the Saints and prior hymnals, including "Afar in Old Judea" and had a reputation as a vigorous song leader and a self-styled humorist. The Cheville Chapel at Graceland University is named in his honor.

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Century  is a 1993 British film, written and directed by playwright Stephen Poliakoff.

Clive Owen stars as a 19th-century Jewish doctor who, while studying at a research institute, discovers that an authoritative doctor (played by Charles Dance) is sterilizing innocent women. This features Mark Strong in his debut as a minor role.

Cast
Charles Dance as Professor Mandry
Clive Owen as Paul Reisner
Miranda Richardson as Clara
Robert Stephens as Mr Reisner
Joan Hickson as Mrs Whitweather
Lena Headey as Miriam
Neil Stuke as Felix
Joseph Bennett as Edwin
Fiona Walker as Mrs. Pritchard
Ian Shaw as Meredith
Mark Strong as Policeman

Release
The film screened at the London Film Festival on 13 November 1993.

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Clippesby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of in Fleggburgh, in the Great Yarmouth district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It located on the B1152 and surrounded by the Norfolk Broads. The village consists largely of a few rows of small cottages and houses with four buildings of historical relevance, the Church of St. Peter's, the Rectory, the Old Hall (now Old Hall Farm) and Clippesby Hall (formerly Clippesby House). It is surrounded by outlying farmsteads. Farming and tourism comprise the majority of its economy, the latter being based in the grounds of Clippesby Hall. In 1931 the parish had a population of 136.

Toponymy
Clippesby is believed to have Viking origins (indicated by the "by" ending to its name). The villages name means 'Klyppr's/Klippr's farm/settlement'.

History
The settlement was bordered by the saltwater lagoon that existed before the sandspit where Great Yarmouth now stands formed to block the entrance to the North Sea. Subsequent drainage by windpumps created rich agricultural land upon which the settlement was largely dependent until recent years. There is an entry for Clippesby in the 1086 Domesday Book where it is recorded as Clepesbei. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Fleggburgh.

Clippesby Hall

Clippesby Hall has had two incarnations over its history. The first Hall appears to date from 1585 (although Osbert de Salicibus alias de Willows is recorded as Lord in the reign of Henry II – 1154–1189). It was most notably occupied by Sir Clipesby Crewe, Chief Justice of England and first Recorder of Great Yarmouth. The Old Hall subsequently became a farm and is today known as "Old Hall Farm".

The current Hall was formerly known as Clippesby House.

The second Hall and estate was first owned by the Muskett family and is described in the 1903 sales catalogue (reproduced below).

In 1909 the hall was purchased by the artist Peregrine Feeney and his wife Emily. She was the sister-in-law of the noted pre-raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse who became a regular visitor and painted the hall on at least one occasion.

Originally the Hall had two storeys but following its use by the army in World War II the upper floor fell into disrepair and was demolished.

Since the war the estate has been used as a market garden, a garden centre and is currently a holiday park. The Hall is still a family home.

Extract from the 1903 Sale Catalogue for Clippesby Hall

General Remarks

The Clippesby Hall Estate lies mainly in a ring fence and is considered to be one of the most desirable Sporting Properties of its size in the County. There is a fair proportion of well placed covert with plenty of water, which forms an admirable Shelter and Rearing Ground for Pheasants; the uplands are very 'kind for partridges, whilst on, the marshes there is always a good stock of strong Hares.

The Hall occupies a healthy situation on the crown of a gentle eminence, is screened on the North and East by well-grown timber, and commands pleasing views of wood and water. It has recently been put into a thorough state of structural and decorative repair by the present occupier, who has been at considerable expense and evinced great taste in making it one of the best-appointed residences in the district.

From its close proximity to Acle Bridge and Potter Heigham (both favourite boating stations, whence the ever-pleasing Broads and waterways of Norfolk can be reached), the Hall forms a very attractive home for Yachtsmen.

As regards the Farms, the Arable Lands being of first-rate quality, with a large proportion of superior marshes adjoining, no difficulty need be anticipated in finding tenants at rents equal to or even in excess of the present amount. The majority of the fields abut on good roads, whilst the, river being close at hand, affords an expeditious and cheap means of carriage for corn, coal, and feeding stuffs, thus reducing the tenants' expenses for cartage.

Clippesby is equidistant (about 3 miles) from Acle Station on the Great Eastern Railway; and, Martham Station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, 5 miles from the' Sea, 9 miles from Great Yarmouth, and 14 from Norwich.

The old Hall, at present used as a Farmhouse, is a fine example of a sixteenth-century Manor House, and bears date 1585. In its windows and carved over the fireplace of the panelled parlour are coats of arms, reputed to be those of its former owners, Clippesby Crewe (Chief Justice of England, and the first recorder of Yarmouth, 1608), and Wryght.

To the memory of John Clippesby, the last of his name, who died in 1594, there is a well-preserved brass in the chancel of St. Peter's Church, which is within a few hundred yards of the Hall, and possesses two interesting specimens of Norman doorways.

The earlier history of the property is believed to be as follows:-
Osbert de Salicibus alias de Willows was Lord in the reign of Henry II. In 1320 and in 1338 Peter Buxkyn or de Bukeskyn presented to the Church as Lord.

Sir Clippesby Crewe, grandson of the Chief Justice, appears to have sold the Manor to Sir John Potts, Bart., of Mannington, afterwards it became in turn the property of George England, Captain Clarke, John Ramey, who devised it to his son-in-law, Alexander, ninth Earl of Home, and ultimately
it was sold to Joseph Muskett.

All the tenants pay ordinary tenant's rates and taxes, except where otherwise stated.
Sporting rights are reserved in the case of all the agricultural tenancies and are now vested in the present tenant of Clippesby Hall during his tenancy thereof.
The bulk of the Estate is subject to Land Tax and the whole of it to Tithe Rent charge, which
are both payable by the Landlord.

The Purchasers of Lots 1 to 6 inclusive are to pay for Timber and underwoods in accordance with the Conditions of Sale in addition to their purchase-money.

The quantities are taken from the Ordnance map, on which the accompanying plan is also based.

Clippesby Church

The church of Clippesby St Peter is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.
St. Peter's is adjacent to Clippesby Hall once the residence of the artist Peregrine Feeney. The Hall and presumably the Church were visited regularly by the noted Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse. In another artistic link the church was the subject of a painting by John Sell Cotman.  Another distinction is a fine Arts and Crafts style stained glass window "Suffer little children", the first professional commission by M. E. Aldrich Rope, c1919.

Church history
The church of St. Peter's at Clippesby is thought to date from Saxon times. Curiously however there is no mention of it in the Domesday Book. The round tower is certainly of Saxon construction as is a small (now sealed) window, whereas the North doorway with its characteristic zig-zag moulding is Norman. The tower was augmented with an octagonal bell tower in the early 1900s. A tiny mass dial (2" Across) is located in the porch and dates from c.1400. The church register dates from 1737 and resides at the Norfolk Records Office.

Rectors of St. Peter's

 1320 Thomas de Spyney.
 1326 Peter de Pagefield.
 1338 Ralph de Depham.
 1338 John Urry.
 1338 Ralph de Urry.
 1352 Edmund de Fressingfeld.
 1361 Henry Gottes.
 1389 Henry Waggestaff.
 1390 Thomas de Martham.
 1409 John Dynyngton.
 1432 Bartholomew Fuller.
 1433 Walter Drury (or Davy).
 1440 John Heroun (or Heton).
 1459 John Dalton (alias Bentbowe).
 1471 Thomas Hauley.
 1473 Richard Foo.
 1477 Roger Grenegress.
 1490 Thomas Foulsham.
 1507 John Owdolf.
 1513 John Makins.
 1542 William Smith.
 15... Richard Croder.
 1561 Edward Sharpe.
 1593 John Nevinson.
 1602 Wiliam Parrye.
 1633 Henry Julian. (Appointed 1633, Subscribed 1662, died 1671).
 1640 ........ Drury.    ) minister?
 16... Thomas Dockwra. ) minister?
 1671 Cuthbert Norris.
 1697 Isaac Laughton.
 1719 George Hill.
 1721 Charles Trimmel.
 1723 William Adams.
 1742 Robert Goodwyn.
 1789 Christopher Taylor.
 1820 William Colby.
 1860 Henry Joseph Muskett.
 1897 Alfred William Lovely Rivett.
 1918 Owen Manby.
 1931 Bernard Milner Pickering.
 1935 William James Hughes Sinett.
 1946 Harry Woodfield Davies.
 1954 Edward Hamley Turtle.
 1957 William Graham Brooking Snell.
 1980 Robin Howard Elphick.
 1985 Kenneth Newton.
 1990 Christopher Cousins.
 1992 Peter Stanley Paine.
 1997 (Hon. Asst, Curate in tandem with P. Paine) Daphne Marcelle Bradford.
 2005 Jeanette Crafer.
 2007 (In tandem with J. Crafer) Sandra Helen Mitchell)

References

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Clippesby

External links
St Peter's on the European Round Tower Churches Website
Clippesby Hall,
Website with a photo of JWWaterhouse at Clippesby Hall

Villages in Norfolk
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Borough of Great Yarmouth
Norfolk Broads

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Louis the Strict () (13 April 1229 – 2 February 1294) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. He is known as Louis II or Louis VI following an alternative numbering.  Born in Heidelberg, he was a son of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes of the Palatinate.

Biography
In 1246, the young Louis supported his brother-in-law King Conrad IV of Germany against the usurpation of Heinrich Raspe. In 1251, Louis was at war again against the bishop of Regensburg.

Louis succeeded his father Otto as Duke of Bavaria in 1253. When the Wittelsbach country was divided in 1255 among Otto's sons, Louis received the Palatinate and Upper Bavaria, while his brother duke Henry XIII of Bavaria received Lower Bavaria. This partition was against the law and therefore caused the anger of the bishops in Bavaria who later allied themselves with king Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1257. During the German interregnum, after King William's death in 1256, Louis supported King Richard of Cornwall. In August 1257 King Ottokar finally invaded Bavaria, but Louis and Henry managed to repulse the attack. It was one of the rare concerted and harmonious actions of the two brothers, who often argued.

The main residences of Louis were at Alter Hof located at the very north-eastern part of Munich and Heidelberg Castle. As one of the Prince-electors of the empire, he was strongly involved in the royal elections for forty years. Together with his brother, Louis also aided his young Hohenstaufen nephew Conradin in his duchy of Swabia, but it was not possible to enforce Conradin's election as German king. As a result of his support for the Hohenstaufen, Louis was excommunicated by the pope in 1266. In 1267 when his nephew crossed the Alps with an army, Louis accompanied Conradin only to Verona. After the young prince's execution in Naples in 1268, Louis inherited some of Conradin's possessions in Swabia and supported the election of the Habsburg Rudolph I against Ottokar II in 1273. On 26 August 1278, the armies of Rudolph and Louis met Ottokar's forces on the banks of the River March in the Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen where Ottokar was defeated and killed. In 1289, the electoral dignity of Bavaria passed to Bohemia again, but Louis remained an elector as Count Palatine of the Rhine. After Rudolph's death in 1291, Louis could not enforce the election of his Habsburg brother-in-law Albert I against Adolf of Nassau.

Louis died at Heidelberg on 2 February 1294. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Rudolf I who had Adolf of Nassau as his father-in-law a few months later. Louis was buried in the crypt of Fürstenfeld Abbey.

Family and children
Louis II was married three times.

The execution of Maria of Brabant
He had his first wife, Maria of Brabant—a daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen—beheaded in 1256, on suspicion of adultery. Any actual guilt on her part could never be validated. As expiation, Louis founded the Cistercian friary Fürstenfeld Abbey (Fürstenfeldbruck) near Munich.

Different sources tell varying tales about how this happened: In 1256, Louis had been away from home for an extended time due to his responsibilities as a sovereign in the area of the Rhine. His wife wrote two letters, one to her husband, and another to the count of Kyburg at Hunsrück, a vassal of Louis. Details about the actual content of the second letter vary, but according to the chroniclers, the messenger who carried the letter to Louis had been given the wrong one, and Louis came to the conclusion that his wife had a secret love affair.

Over time a great many tales of folklore sprang up around Louis' deed, most of them written long after his death: Ballad-mongers embellished the tale into a murderous frenzy during which Louis allegedly not only killed his wife after having ridden home for five days and nights, but also stabbed the messenger who brought him the wrong letter; then upon entering his castle, stabbed his own castellan and a court lady and threw his wife's maid from the battlements, before he massacred his wife either by stabbing her or cutting off her head.

Several more restrained chronicles support the account of Marie's execution on 18 January 1256 at Mangoldstein Castle in Donauwörth by ducal decree for alleged adultery, but nothing beyond that.

Later marriages

Louis married his second wife, Anna of Glogau, in 1260. They had the following children:

 Maria of Bavaria (b. 1261), became a nun in Marienberg abbey at Boppard.
 Agnes (1262 – 21 October 1269).
 Ludwig of Bavaria (13 September 1267 – 23 November 1290, killed at a tournament at Nuremberg).

He married his third wife, Matilda of Habsburg, daughter of Rudolph I of Germany, on 24 October 1273. Their children were:

 Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (4 October 1274, Basle – 12 August 1319).
 Matilda (Mechthild) of Bavaria, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1275 – 28 March 1319, Lüneburg), married 1288 to Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
 Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Stendal (c. 1276/78 – 22 July 1345), married firstly in 1290 to Landgrave Henry "the Younger" of Hesse and secondly around 1298/1303 to Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal.
 Anna of Bavaria (b. 1280), became a nun in Ulm.
 Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1 April 1282, Munich – 11 October 1347, Puch (now a district of Fürstenfeldbruck)) and King of Italy.

Louis II was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Rudolf I.

References

Sources

External links

German wiki entry for Ludwig II. (Ludwig der Strenge)
Genealogy of Ludwig II. (compilation of various sources, in German)

1229 births
1294 deaths
13th-century dukes of Bavaria
Nobility from Heidelberg
Counts Palatine of the Rhine
House of Wittelsbach

Louis II, Duke of Bavaria


Warren Edward Miller (March 26, 1924 – January 30, 1999) was an American political scientist in the field of American political behavior.  Best known as a co-author of the seminal book, The American Voter, alongside Angus Campbell, Philip Converse and Donald Stokes, which provided the basis for the social-psychological "Michigan school" of thought in American political behavior, Miller had a full and impressive career as a political scientist.

Miller is further credited as founder of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as well as a central figure in the bi-yearly National Election Studies (NES).

Miller was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan from 1951 until 1981 when he left for Arizona State University where he worked until his death.  His last published volume, The New American Voter, which he co-authored with J. Merrill Shanks, was printed in 1996.

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1999 deaths
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The Denham Roundabout is a road junction in Denham, Buckinghamshire. It was originally opened in 1943 in conjunction with the completion of the new Western Avenue route into west London. The Western Avenue took over the classification of the A40, with the previous route to London, via Uxbridge and Ealing, being reclassified as the A4020.  The roundabout also included a new link to A412 that formed part of the outer London orbital route.

Since 1973, the westbound A40, now flows into the M40 motorway at this point. The roundabout below facilitates junction 1 (J1) of the motorway to connect with the westbound continuation of the A40, together with the intersection of the road from Uxbridge (A4020) and the road from Slough to Watford (A412).

When the M40 from Denham to High Wycombe was built, Western Avenue was extended at high level to make an end-on join with the motorway, and a larger roundabout was built below the bridges carrying the motorway. When first laid out, the roundabout had the traffic going round it clockwise in the usual way, but as traffic volumes built up, the layout was altered so that the traffic moved round the roundabout in both directions, making it a ring junction with roundabouts at the points that other roads join the main roundabout.

See also
 Magic Roundabout (Colchester)
 Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead)
 Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe)
Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

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 Google Maps satellite image view

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