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Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
<p>'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH</p>
<p>'The kind of book Wells might have written if he had lived to see the 1970s.' TRIBUNE</p>
<p>'Rich, allusive, full of real people and unfailingly interesting.' ANTHONY BURGESS, THE OBSERVER</p>
An electrifying journey one millions years into the future: meet the Utopian race of Homo Uniformis – men logical, unemotional, and totally alike…
In the future, mankind’s physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show.
This novel is part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. The Friday Project are reissuing many of Aldiss’s works, including over 300 short stories, in print and eBook.
An electrifying journey one millions years into the future: meet the Utopian race of Homo Uniformis – men logical, unemotional, and totally alike…
‘Frightening, gripping… not one for the squeamish’ ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
‘The best of British science fiction writers’ THE SCOTSMAN
‘A rattling good yarn’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Aldiss is a magician’ SUNDAY TIMES
• The Brian Aldiss back catalogue is now available in e-format for the first time.
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Biographical note
Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.