As well as the exact sciences, he also plundered speculative, psychological, sociological and sexological areas of inquiry. He took for his subjects the full range of modern scientific research. He wrote lively, intelligent prose, shot through with subversive humour, linguistic novelty and human observation. Aldiss’s work came as a breath of fresh air to a genre beginning to suffocate in its own orthodoxies. He began publishing his stories in the mid-1950s, a time when SF was heavily dominated by US writers schooled in the markets of commercial magazines. He also edited a huge number of anthologies and produced a body of criticism that was remarkable for its energy and clarity. As well as his prodigious output of SF, he wrote several bestselling mainstream novels, poetry, drama, two autobiographies and several film scenarios. An ambitious and gifted writer, with a flowing and inventive literary style, he did not confine himself to science fiction. In a lifelong and prolific career, Aldiss, who has died aged 92, produced more than 40 novels and almost as many short-story collections. Brian Aldiss, author of the classic Helliconia trilogy, and the story on which Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence was based, was one of Britain’s most accomplished and versatile writers of science fiction.
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