He took another Hugo Award in 1987 for his critical study of science fiction Trillion Year Spree, written with David Wingrove. "The Saliva Tree" won a Nebula Award in 1965, and Aldiss's novel Starship won the Prix Jules Verne in 1977. The Long Afternoon of Earth won a Hugo Award in 1962. Aldiss has been publishing science fiction for more than a quarter century and has more than two dozen books to his credit.
One of the true giants of the field, Brian W. Never has he envisioned the far future more vividly than in the story that follows, though, which takes us to a muted, autumnal future thousands of years after a Singularity has forever changed all life on Earth a future full of echoes and old ghosts an ancient and ruinous Earth from which humankind has forever departed a strange world of Involutes and Impures and musicolumns, with Venus for a moon, and hogs as big as hippos a world of stately, living music under dusty umbrella trees. Aldiss has also handled the theme with grace and a wealth of poetic imagination in many other stories, including classics such as "The Worm That Flies" and "Full Sun," as well as the novels of the Helliconia trilogy (and handles a closely related theme with similar excellence in The Malacia Tapestry as well).
The Long Afternoon of Earth (also known as the Hothouse series, under which title it won a special Hugo Award in 1962) remains one of the classic visions of the distant future of Earth, as well as being a foundation-stone of the subgenre of science fantasy. Aldiss, and in a field where such stories are relatively rare, he has almost made a specialty out of writing about it. The far future seems to hold a special fascination and allure for Brian W.
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