Controversial and brilliant, Report on Probability A is a claustrophobic and terrifying novel that examines the politics of surveillance and ownership.
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.
Mr and Mrs Mary live a normal life in every way, except one. All day, every day, they are being watched by three men.
Once employed by the Marys, the men now spend their time observing the couple’s every move. But Mrs Mary has her gun, and she’s been watching too.
Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was 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. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
- ‘A mindwrenching conception that forces one to question every common notion of human awareness, space-time, and perceptual reality’ TRIBUNE
- ‘Devilishly clever… an exuberant imagination meets a passionate intelligence’ GUARDIAN’
- For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers’ THE TELEGRAPH