Brian Aldiss, the “grand old man” of science fiction whose writing has shaped the genre since he was first published in the 1950s, has died at the age of 92. Aldiss was the author of science fiction classics including Non-Stop, Hothouse and Greybeard, as well as the Helliconia trilogy, which his agent said bridged “the gap between classic science fiction and contemporary literature”. In a 2013 profile of Aldiss for the Guardian, Stuart Kelly described him as “the grand old man of British science fiction”, saying that “few writers have contributed more” to speculative fiction. Brian Aldiss obituary Read moreIn an introduction to a new edition of Hothouse, Neil Gaiman described Aldiss’s career as “enormous”. His death was marked by names from across the science fiction writing community.

Source: The Guardian August 21, 2017 14:24 UTC