“Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick,… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
