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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (/ˈɔːldɪs/; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.

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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

Dream, Dreaming, Love, Perhaps, Skull, Sleep

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

Achievement, Ape, Apes, Lie, Lying

It is at night. . . that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

Clear, Hold, Night, Skulls, Sleep

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Chinese, Emeralds, Favorably, Quite, Read, Wall

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Can Do, Envisage, Life, Role, Roles, Roles In Life

The day of the android has dawned.

Android, Androids, Dawned, Day

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Fiction, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Science

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Fiction, Fun, Opera, Real, Science, Space

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

Become, Comparatively, Creativity, Stay Strong, Tougher, Writing

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

Century, Fellow, Human, Lasts, People

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Grew, Growing, Growth, Law, Obeying, Riotous

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 a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Believe, May, Mind, Scientific, Subconscious, Truth

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

Conquest, Gimmick, Ideas, Men, Situations, Strong

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Alien, Aliens, Doe, Life, Science, Spirit

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Letters, People, Places, Unexpected

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Drink, Enjoy, Overconsume, Patriotic, Relax

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Children, Enter, Fear, Hell, Love, State

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Firsts, Fit, Place, Society, System, Writer

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

Accident, Made, Man, Men, World

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

Animal, General, Hundred, Miles, Several, Species

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