Brian Aldiss Reading Order

74 books (1961–2013)

Start with Penguin Science Fiction, the first of 74 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Penguin Science Fiction 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best Fantasy Stories 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	More Penguin Science Fiction 1963Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nebula Award Stories #2 1966Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tales of Unease 1966Buy 🇺🇸
7	Introducing Science Fiction 1967Buy 🇺🇸
8	Backdrop of Stars 1968Buy 🇺🇸
9	Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus 1968Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dangerous Visions 1 1969Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Inner Landscape 1969Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nova 1 1970Buy 🇺🇸
13	On Our Way to the Future 1970Buy 🇺🇸
14	SF Authors' Choice 2 1970Buy 🇺🇸
15	Science Against Man 1970Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸
17	Alpha 3 1972Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Astounding Analog Reader 1972Buy 🇺🇸
19	This Side of Infinity 1972Buy 🇺🇸
20	Orbit 12 1973Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Year's Best Science Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸
23	Factions 1974Buy 🇺🇸
24	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
25	Space Odysseys 1974Buy 🇺🇸
26	Antigrav 1975Buy 🇺🇸
27	Decade: The 1940's 1975Buy 🇺🇸
28	Evil Earths 1975Buy 🇺🇸
29	Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories 1975Buy 🇺🇸
30	Hell's Cartographers 1975Buy 🇺🇸
31	New Worlds 6 1975Buy 🇺🇸
32	New Worlds Nine 1975Buy 🇺🇸
33	New Writings in SF 27 1975Buy 🇺🇸
34	Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction 1975Buy 🇺🇸
35	Andromeda 1 1976Buy 🇺🇸
36	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
37	Decade: The 1950s 1976Buy 🇺🇸
38	Galactic Empires 2 1976Buy 🇺🇸
39	Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978 1977Buy 🇺🇸
40	Decade: The 1960s 1977Buy 🇺🇸
41	Perilous Planets 1978Buy 🇺🇸
42	Galactic Empires 1979Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸
45	Winter's Tales 26 1981Buy 🇺🇸
46	Perpetual Light 1982Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Book of Mini-Sagas 1985Buy 🇺🇸
48	Tales From the Forbidden Planet 1987Buy 🇺🇸
49	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1988Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Book of Mini-Sagas 2 1988Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Drabble Project 1988Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
54	Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold 1988Buy 🇺🇸
55	Dark Fantasies 1989Buy 🇺🇸
56	Dante's Disciples 1991Buy 🇺🇸
57	Now We Are Sick 1991Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Amis Story Anthology 1992Buy 🇺🇸
59	New Worlds 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸
60	New Worlds No. 221 1996Buy 🇺🇸
61	Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 1997Buy 🇺🇸
62	Mini Sagas 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
63	Nebula Awards 35 (2001) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
64	DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
65	DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002Buy 🇺🇸
66	Mini-Sagas 2002Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
68	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸
69	Catastrophia 2010Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011 2010Buy 🇺🇸
71	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
72	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
73	Four For Fantasy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
74	xo Orpheus 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1969–1976)

Start with Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2(With: Robert Sheckley,Harry Harrison), the first of 6 books in the Best SF Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2(With: Robert Sheckley,Harry Harrison) 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3(With: Harry Harrison) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4(With: Harry Harrison) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5(With: Harry Harrison) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	Best SF: 1973 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 7(With: Harry Harrison) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9(With: Harry Harrison) 1976Buy 🇺🇸

28 books (1955–2019)

Start with A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor), the first of 28 books in the Faber Stories series.

#	Title
1	A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	Homeland(By: Barbara Kingsolver) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot Díaz) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Mostly Hero(By: Anna Burns) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	A River in Egypt(By: David Means) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
15	Come Rain or Come Shine(By: Kazuo Ishiguro) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
16	Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
21	Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
22	Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
23	Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Victim(By: P.D. James) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
28	Three Types of Solitude 2019Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1982–1985)

Start with Helliconia Spring and read in order.

#	Title
1	Helliconia Spring 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Helliconia Summer 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	Helliconia Winter 1985Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1970–1978)

Start with The Hand-Reared Boy and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Hand-Reared Boy 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Soldier Erect 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Rude Awakening 1978Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1980–2001)

Start with Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth), the first of 19 books in the Isaac Asimov's Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far(By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own(By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1970–2021)

Start with The Shape of Further Things, the first of 18 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Shape of Further Things 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Billion Year Spree 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	Science Fiction Art 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	This World and Nearer Ones 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Pale Shadow of Science 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	Trillion Year Spree(With: David Wingrove) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Detached Retina 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's 1990Buy 🇺🇸
10	Home Life With Cats 1992Buy 🇺🇸
11	When The Feast Is Finished 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	Art After Apogee 2000Buy 🇺🇸
14	Plutonian Monologue 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Starry Messenger 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	An Exile on Planet Earth 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Twinkling of an Eye 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	And the Lurid Glare of the Comet 2021Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2000–2002)

Start with A Chinese Perspective and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Chinese Perspective 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	A New (Governmental) Father Christmas 2002Buy 🇺🇸

36 books (1957–2025)

Start with Space, Time and Nathaniel, the first of 36 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Space, Time and Nathaniel 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time 1959Buy 🇺🇸
3	No Time Like Tomorrow 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Airs of Earth 1963Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Saliva Tree 1966Buy 🇺🇸
6	Who Can Replace a Man? 1966Buy 🇺🇸
7	Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	Intangibles, Inc.: And Other Stories 1969Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Moment of Eclipse 1970Buy 🇺🇸
10	Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss 1972Buy 🇺🇸
11	Equator 1973Buy 🇺🇸
12	Brothers of the Head 1977Buy 🇺🇸
13	Last Orders 1977Buy 🇺🇸
14	New Arrivals, Old Encounters 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	Pile 1979Buy 🇺🇸
16	Foreign Bodies 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	Farewell to a Child 1982Buy 🇺🇸
18	Seasons in Flight 1984Buy 🇺🇸
19	A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories 1986Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Magic of the Past 1987Buy 🇺🇸
21	Science Fiction Blues 1988Buy 🇺🇸
22	Man in His Time 1989Buy 🇺🇸
23	At the Caligula Hotel 1995Buy 🇺🇸
24	The God Who Slept With Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Secret of This Book / Common Clay 1995Buy 🇺🇸
26	Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Dark Sun Rises 2002Buy 🇺🇸
28	Cultural Breaks 2005Buy 🇺🇸
29	A Prehistory of Mind 2008Buy 🇺🇸
30	Mortal Morning 2011Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Invention of Happiness 2013Buy 🇺🇸
32	Songs from the Steppes 2014Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s 2015Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
36	Hello Earth, Are You There? 2025Buy 🇺🇸

37 books (1954–2024)

Start with Starswarm, the first of 37 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Starswarm 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Brightfount Diaries 1955Buy 🇺🇸
3	Non-Stop / Starship 1958Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vanguard From Alpha 1959Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter 1960Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth 1961Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Male Response 1961Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Primal Urge 1961Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dark Light Years 1964Buy 🇺🇸
10	Greybeard 1964Buy 🇺🇸
11	Earthworks 1965Buy 🇺🇸
12	Cryptozoic! / An Age 1967Buy 🇺🇸
13	Report on Probability A 1968Buy 🇺🇸
14	Barefoot in the Head 1969Buy 🇺🇸
15	Neanderthal Planet 1969Buy 🇺🇸
16	Frankenstein Unbound 1973Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Eighty-Minute Hour 1974Buy 🇺🇸
18	Enemies of the System 1978Buy 🇺🇸
19	An Island Called Moreau 1980Buy 🇺🇸
20	Moreau's Other Island 1980Buy 🇺🇸
21	Tales from the Planet Earth 1986Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical 1987Buy 🇺🇸
23	Ruins 1988Buy 🇺🇸
24	Sex and the Black Machine 1988Buy 🇺🇸
25	Dracula Unbound 1990Buy 🇺🇸
26	White Mars(With: Roger Penrose) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Cretan Teat 2001Buy 🇺🇸
28	Super State 2002Buy 🇺🇸
29	Affairs At Hampden Ferrers 2004Buy 🇺🇸
30	Jocasta 2005Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sanity and the Lady 2005Buy 🇺🇸
32	Harm 2007Buy 🇺🇸
33	Walcot 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	Finches of Mars 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	Comfort Zone 2013Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Malacia Tapestry 2014Buy 🇺🇸
37	Hothouse 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1980–1994)

Start with Life in the West, the first of 4 books in the The Squire Quartet series.

#	Title
1	Life in the West 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Forgotten Life 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Remembrance Day 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Somewhere East of Life 1994Buy 🇺🇸