Editing Brian Aldiss (section)

===Novels===
* ''The Brightfount Diaries'' (1955, Faber)
* ''[[Non-Stop (novel)|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 (novel)|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.<ref name=SFAwards/>
*: 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 [[Vietnam War|American genocide in Vietnam]]."<ref>{{cite book|last=Jameson|first=Fredric|author-link=Fredric Jameson|chapter=World-reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative|orig-year=1975|title=The Jameson Reader|editor-first1=Michael|editor-last1=Hardt|editor-link1=Michael Hardt|editor-first2=Kathi|editor-last2=Weeks|publisher=Blackwell|year=2000|page=375}}</ref>
* ''[[Earthworks (novel)|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 (magazine)|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 [[Serbs|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),<ref name="sf-encyclopedia.com"/> (1971, Signet T4575), (1971, Corgi)
*# ''A Soldier Erect'' (1971, Weidenfeld & Nicolson),<ref name="sf-encyclopedia.com"/> (1972, Corgi)
*# ''A Rude Awakening'' (1978, Weidenfeld & Nicolson),<ref name="sf-encyclopedia.com"/> (1979, Corgi)
*: Omnibus edition, ''The Horatio Stubbs Saga'' (1985, Panther)<ref name="sf-encyclopedia.com"/>
* ''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]], [[Frankenstein's 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;<ref name=BSFA/> [[Campbell Memorial Award]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/brian-aldiss|title=Brian Aldiss – Literature|website=literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref> Nebula Award finalist<ref name=SFAwards/>
*# ''[[Helliconia Summer]]'' (1983, Atheneum), (1983, Jonathan Cape), (1984, Berkley), (1985, Granada)
*#: BSFA finalist; Locus Award, fourth place<ref name=SFAwards/>
*# ''[[Helliconia Winter]]'' (1985, Atheneum), (1985, Jonathan Cape), (1986, Berkley), (1986, Granada)
*#: BSFA;<ref name=BSFA/> Nebula finalist; Locus, fifth place<ref name=SFAwards/>
*: 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]] {{oclc|905903045}}
* ''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/brian-aldiss-unpicks-the-jocasta-complex|title = Brian Aldiss unpicks the Jocasta complex &#124; the Spectator| date=22 January 2015 }}</ref> 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<ref name=CampbellAwardNominees>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell-finalists.htm |title=John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists |publisher=Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction (sfcenter.ku.edu) |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-date=30 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830202751/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell-finalists.htm |url-status=dead }}<br>The Award recognises second and third-place runners-up. Recent lists of finalists are long, 14 in 2008.</ref>
* ''Walcot'' (2010, Goldmark)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Greenland|first1=Colin|title=Walcot by Brian Aldiss|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/07/brian-aldiss-walcot-review|access-date=12 September 2017|date=7 August 2010}}</ref>
*: [[Family saga]] spanning the 20th century
* ''Finches of Mars'' (2012)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/75944/finches-of-mars-brian-aldiss-9780007478927| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131214153210/http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/75944/finches-of-mars-brian-aldiss-9780007478927| archive-date = 14 December 2013| title = Finches of Mars : Brian Aldiss – HarperCollins}}</ref>
* ''Comfort Zone'' (2013)<ref name="theguardian.com"/>