- Brian Aldiss

The Brian Aldiss Collection - The Malacia Tapestry (The Brian Aldiss Collection)

By Brian Aldiss
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In Malacia, a city where change is forbidden and radical ideas are crushed, a war like no other is about to commence.

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.

Struggling young actor Perian de Chirolo does as he pleases in the timeless city. He is a lover, a fighter and has no thought for consequence, until the magic of Malacia changes and reality begins to catch up with him.

Now de Chirolo must make a choice between his old life, and joining the revolutionaries who will fight to ensure Malacia is never the same again.

Author: Brian Aldiss
Format: ebook
Release Date: 08 Oct 2015
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-748237-5
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