Brian Aldiss Reading Order

75 books (1961–2013)

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

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3(With: Harry Harrison) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4(With: Harry Harrison) 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5(With: Harry Harrison) 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Best SF: 1973 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 7(With: Harry Harrison) 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9(With: Harry Harrison) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

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

3 books (1982–1985)

Start with Helliconia Spring and read in order.

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

3 books (1970–1978)

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

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

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

2 books (2000–2002)

Start with A Chinese Perspective and read in order.

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

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

37 books (1954–2024)

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

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Forgotten Life 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Remembrance Day 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Somewhere East of Life 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible