Brian Aldiss

So sad that Brian Aldiss has died.

A seminal writer, and a very generous man.

He wrote the introduction to my anthology Transmutations, and he kept writing at the top of his game right to the end.

Has any other writer produced so many acclaimed works over such a long time? From his 1960s early classics Hothouse, Non-Stop and Greybeard, to Helliconia, his extraordinary climate change trilogy in the 1980s, to Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (the basis of the Kubrick/Spielberg film A.I.), to his superb late novels The Cretan Teat, Jocasta, Walcot and Comfort Zone.

In between he wrote the best selling Horatio Stubbs trilogy, experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head, edited more than 40 collections, wrote short stories that read today as well as when they were first published, wrote the book of sf criticism Trillion Year Spree, as well as poetry. He painted too.

A promethean spirit is stilled.