- Brian Aldiss

The Brian Aldiss Collection - The Male Response (The Brian Aldiss Collection)

By Brian Aldiss
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Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive.

The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.

Events move fast in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the new African republic of Goya. When affable young PR man Soames Noyes arrives fresh off the boat from England to deliver the city’s first computer, he finds himself swept up in a current of women, witch-doctors and promiscuity.

Soon the indecisive Soames is saying goodbye to inhibition and hello to a new sexual politics.

Author: Brian Aldiss
Format: ebook
Release Date: 08 Oct 2015
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-748239-9
Brian Aldiss, OBE, was a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. Born in Norfolk in 1925, after leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Passing away in 2017, over the course of his life Aldiss wrote nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories – becoming one of the pre-eminent science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st century.

‘Aldiss is a magician’ Sunday Times‘The titan of science fiction.’ Telegraph -

”'Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential - and one of the best - SF writers Britain has ever produced.” - Iain M Banks

”'The best contemporary writer of science fiction.” - Guardian

‘One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age… the colossus of science fiction’New Yorker -

”'Once again he demonstrates the power of his imagination.” - Daily Mail