Short Fiction Collected
Brian W. Aldiss
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Title Page
About Brian W. Aldiss
Pseudonyms
“New Worlds Profiles” (December 1955)
“New Worlds Profiles” (March 1960)
“New Worlds Profiles” (December 1961)
“New Worlds Profiles” (May 1963)
Bibliography: Novels
Bibliography: Magazine-published Novels
Bibliography: Serials
Bibliography: Chapbooks
Bibliography: Collections
Bibliography: Omnibus
Bibliography: Nonfiction
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
Epigraph
1954
A Book in Time
Criminal Record
1955
Outside
Not for an Age
Breathing Space
The Great Time Hiccup
Pogsmith
Our Kind of Knowledge
Panel Game
1956
Tradesman’s Exit
Non-Stop
There is a Tide
The Failed Men
Psyclops
Conviction
T
Dumb Show
With Esmond in Mind
1957
The Shubshub Race
Supercity
No Gimmick
Oh, Ishrael!
All the World’s Tears
Let’s Be Frank
Gesture of Farewell
What Triumphs?
Flowers of the Forest
Out of Reach
The Ice Mass Cometh
1958
Judas Dancing
The New Father Christmas
The Pit My Parish
Ten-Storey Jigsaw
The Carp That Once . .
Poor Little Warrior!
Have Your Hatreds Ready
Journey to the Interior
Blighted Profile
But Who Can Replace a Man?
Ninian’s Experiences
Segregation
They Shall Inherit
Equator (Part One of Two Parts)
Equator (Conclusion)
Fourth Factor
Carrion Country
Sight of a Silhouette
Incentive
1959
The Arm
The Unbeaten Track
Intangibles, Inc
The Lieutenant
The Towers of San Ampa
Are You an Android?
The Other One
The Bomb-Proof Bomb
Fortune’s Fool
Legends of Smith’s Burst
Safety Valve
1960
Under an English Heaven
X for Exploitation (Part One of Three Parts)
Faceless Card
X for Exploitation (Part Two of Three Parts)
X for Exploitation (Conclusion)
Soldiers Running
Stage-Struck!
The War Millennia
The Sterile Millennia
The Robot Millennia
The Dark Millennia
The Star Millennia
The Mutant Millennia
The Megalopolis Millennia
The Ultimate Millennia
Original Sinner
A Touch of Neanderthal
One Hundredth
1961
Hothouse
Moon of Delight
Nomansland
Undergrowth
Hen’s Eyes
Timberline
Evergreen
1962
Basis for Negotiation
Conversation Piece
Tyrants’ Territory
Shards
Minor Operation (Part One of Three Parts)
Minor Operation (Part Two of Three Parts)
Minor Operation (Conclusion)
A Kind of Artistry
Matrix
A Pleasure Shared
1963
The International Smile
The Thing Under the Glacier
Comic Inferno
The Under-Privileged
In the Arena
The Impossible Star
Skeleton Crew
1964
Man on Bridge
Sector Vermilion
Sector Grey
Sector Violet
Sector Diamond
Sector Green
Sector Yellow
Sector Azure
The Rift
A Pair of Paradoxes
The Dark Light-Years
‘Never Let Go of My Hand!’
Pink Plastic Gods
Lazarus
Unauthorised Persons
No Moon To-Night!
Jungle Substitute
1965
Scarfe’s World
Man in His Time
The Impossible Smile (The first of two parts)
The Impossible Smile (Concluded)
The Small Betraying Detail
The Source
Girl and Robot with Flowers
Old Time’s Sake
The Saliva Tree
The Day of the Doomed King
1966
One Role with Relish
Paternal Care
The Circulation of the Blood
The O in José
The Lonely Habit
Amen and Out
Heresies of the Huge God
Another Little Boy
Lambeth Blossom
Burning Question
The Eyes of the Blind King
The Plot Sickens
1967
A Taste for Dostoevsky
Down the Up Escalation
Just Passing Through
Report on Probability A
Randy’s Syndrome
Reflection on Mars
Ultimate Construction
The Dead Immortal
Full Sun
Multi-Value Motorway
Confluence
Still Trajectories
An Age (part one)
The Night That All Time Broke Out
An Age (part two)
A Difficult Age
Wonder Weapon
Auto-Ancestral Fracture
An Age (part three)
1968
The Serpent of Kundalini
Total Environment
Send Her Victorious
Drake Man Route
Dreamer, Schemer
The Worm that Flies
When I Was Very Jung
Dream of Distance
The Village Swindler
The Tell-Tale Heart Machine
. . . And the Stagnation of the Heart
1969
Since the Assassination
Ouspenski’s Astrabahn
Greeks Bringing Knee-High Gifts
Working in the Spaceship Yards
The Moment of Eclipse
The Humming Heads
The Firmament Theorem
That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art . .
The Soft Predicament
So Far from Prague
Supertoys Last All Summer Long
1970
The Day We Embarked for Cythera . .
Orgy of the Living and the Dying
Swastika!
The Secret of Holman Hunt and the Crude Death Rate
Cardiac Arrest
The Hunter at His Ease
1971
Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land
The Day Equality Broke Out
1972
The Ergot Show
Manuscript Found in a Police State
As for Our Fatal Continuity . .
1973
The Expensive Delicate Ship
Three Enigmas
A Spot of Konfrontation
Four Stories
Strange in a Familiar Way
The Eternal Theme of Exile: Three Enigmas II
1974
The Monsters of Ingratitude IV
Listen with Big Brother
Melancholia Has a Plastic Core
Frankenstein Unbound (Part One)
Three Enigmas III: All in God’s Mind
Frankenstein Unbound (Second of Two Parts)
Diagrams for Three Enigmatic Stories
Live? Our Computers Will Do That for Us
Three Songs for Enigmatic Lovers
1975
Always Somebody There
Enigma 3: The Aperture Momen
Excommunication
Three Coins in Enigmatic Fountains
1976
Backwater
Three Deadly Enigmas: V: Year by Year the Evil Gains
Journey to the Heartland
The Dark Soul of the Night
Appearance of Life
Last Orders
A Space for Reflection
1977
The Bang-Bang
In the Mist of Life
My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows
Where the Lines Converge
Horsemen
Brothers of the Head
Creatures of Apogee
1978
Indifference
Non-Isotropic
The Small Stones of Tu Fu
Three Ways
A Chinese Perspective
Yin, Yang and Jung: Three Galactic Enigmas
Enemies of the System
The Game with the Big Heavy Ball
1979
The Mingled Millennia
Oh, For a Closer Brush with God
One Blink of the Moon
Song of the Silencer
1980
Modernisation
A Romance of the Equator
The Man Who Saw Cliff Richard
1981
The Skeleton
End Game
1982
Parasites of Passion
Happiness and Suffering
How the Boy Icarus Grew Up . . .
Call Yourself a Christian
Door Slams in Fourth World
A Private Whale
1983
Consolations of Age
The Girl Who Sang
The Blue Background
Igur and the Mountain
1984
The Plain, the Endless Plain
Journey to the Goat Star
The Other Side of the Lake
The Gods in Flight
Incident in a Far Country
1985
You Never Asked My Name
Domestic Catastrophe
Another Story on the Theme of the Last Man on Earth
Possessed by Love
Sector Mauve
1986
My Country ’Tis Not Only of Thee
Juniper
Vietnam Encore
The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica
Lies!
Infestation
The Older Evil
1987
Traveller, Traveller, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life
The Ascent of Humbelstein
Those Shouting Nights
The Price of Cabbages
Tourney
Ruins
1988
Happiness and Suffering, the Triumph of La Vie Over Death
How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart
Confluence Revisited
The Hero
Hess
Wordsworth Hallucinates
1989
Days in the Life of a Galactic Empire
Three Degrees Over
The Big Question
A Tupolev Too Far
North of the Abyss
1990
Better Morphosis
A Life of Matter and Death
Sex and the Black Machine
1991
FOAM
Summertime Was Nearly Over
1992
Her Toes Were Beautiful on the Hilltops
Ratbird
Softly—As in an Evening Sunrise
Horse Meat
Common Clay
1993
Else the Isle with Calibans
Friendship Bridge
1994
The Monster of Everyday Life
The Servant Problem
The Madonna of Futurity
Headless
The God Who Slept with Women
The Dream of Antigone
1995
Making My Father Read Revered Writings
Sitting with Sick Wasps
Becoming the Full Butterfly
Into the Tunnel!
The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind
The Dinosaur Archbishop
How the Gates Opened and Closed
Travelling Towards Humbris
If Hamlet’s Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy
A Swedish Birthday Present
Three Moon Enigmas
Evans in His Moment of Glory
An Unwritten Love Note
The Eye-Opener
1996
Dark Society
The Law Against Trivia
1997
Great Art
Death, Shit, Love, Transfiguration
1999
An Apollo Asteroid
The Short Life of Rosetta Stone
The Hot Air Balloon
The Dragon Slayers
Wanted: The Wilderness!
2000
Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb
Steppenpferd
2001
Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Supertoys When Winter Comes
Supertoys in Other Seasons
Apogee Again
III
The Old Mythyology
Beef
Nothing in Life is Ever Enough
A Matter of Mathematics
The Pause Button
Three Types of Solitude
Galaxy Zee
Marvells of Utopia
A Whiter Mars
Supertoys: Play Can Be So Deadly
Supertoys: What Fun to Be Reborn
2002
An Innovation Concerning Horses
Sunlight
Tomorrow’s Yesterdays
The Man and a Man with His Mule
Aboard the Beatitude
The Fruits of Research
The Leniency of the Lord Almighty
Life in Death
Modern Babies
Near Earth Object
2003
The Hibernators
Commander Calex Killed, Fire and Fury at Edge of World, Scones Perfect
2004
Tarzan of the Alps
2005
Ten Billion of Them
Pipeline
Tralee of Young Man
Dusk Flight
The National Heritage
2006
Tiger in the Night
Safe!
2007
Four Ladies of the Apocalypse
Life, Learning, Lepizig and a Librarian
2008
Mortistan
Fandom at the Palace
2010
The First-Born
Hapless Humanity
2011
Benkoelen
Less Than Kin, More Than Kind
2013
The Hungers of an Old Language
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
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 Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing
2014
Antigone
2015
The Green Leaves of Space
Two Modern Myths
2016
Abundances Above
2025
Something from the Turkish
A New (Governmental) Father Christmas