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===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,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Agarwal |first1=Dev |title=Review - Brian W. Aldiss by Paul Kincaid |url=https://www.bsfa.co.uk/BSFA-Review-Brian-W-Aldiss-by-Paul-Kincaid/ |website=BSFA |access-date=24 April 2025}}</ref> 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.<ref name=SFAwards/> 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 (short story)|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), "[[Supertoys 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<ref name="BSFA">{{cite web|url=http://www.bsfa.co.uk/Awards/BSFAAwardsPastAwards.aspx|title=BSFA Awards: Past Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519040516/http://www.bsfa.co.uk/Awards/BSFAAwardsPastAwards.aspx|archive-date=19 May 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=17 October 2012}}.<!-- [http://www.bsfa.co.uk/Awards/BSFAAwardsPastAwards.aspx BSFA Awards: Past Awards]. Retrieved 2011-03-10. --> British Science Fiction Association. Archived 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2013-04-25.</ref> * ''[[Neanderthal Planet]]'' (1970, Avon), collection of 4 novellas/novelettes: *: "[[Neanderthal Planet (short story)|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 "[[Supertoys 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 "[[Supertoys 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) {{ISBN|0-689-12052-4}}, (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 "[[Supertoys 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), "Supertoys 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) {{ISBN|0-689-12053-2}}, 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", "[https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_067v23_1958-01/page/n44/mode/1up?view=theater 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:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2015|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780007482290|url={{Google books|haWtAAAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *#: "Faceless Card", "[[Neanderthal Planet (short story)|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:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2015|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780007586394|url={{Google books|rMhqAwAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *#: "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:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2015|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 3)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780008148959|url={{Google books|j74OCAAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 3)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *#: "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:<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2015|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780008148973|url={{Google books|u8wWCAAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *#: "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)<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2016|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 1)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780007482504|url={{Google books|ISUaogEACAAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 1)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *# ''The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 2)'' (2016)<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2016|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 2)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780008174033|url={{Google books|ialnCwAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1970s (Part 2)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *# ''The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 1)'' (2016)<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2016|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 1)|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780007482733|url={{Google books|hhAIogEACAAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 1)|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> *# ''The Complete Short Stories: The 1980s (Part 2)'' (2016) *# ''The Complete Short Stories: The 1990s'' (2016)<ref>{{cite book|last=Aldiss|first=Brian|date=2016|title=The Complete Short Stories: The 1990s|language=en|publisher=HarperCollins UK|isbn=9780008113162|url={{Google books|xC-KCwAAQBAJ|The Complete Short Stories: The 1990s|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> Uncollected short stories: {{div col | colwidth=35em}} * "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, {{ISBN|978-1-84607-991-7}}) * "Benkoelen" (2011) * "Less Than Kin, More Than Kind" (2011) * "The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing" (2013) * "Abundances Above" (2016) {{div col end}}
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