The Wertzone

It is a world where the seasons last for years, where summers can span decades and devastating winters can threaten to destroy civilisation ...

One of the titans of science fiction has left us. Brian Aldiss (often published as Brian W. Aldiss) has passed away at the age of 92. A...

The world of Helliconia is moving away from the supergiant star Freyr. The Great Winter is about to descend on the planet with full, unmitig...

Helliconia basks in the glow of the Great Summer. The continent of Campannlat is now dominated by the Holy Empire, a loose religious affilia...

Yuli is a child of a hunter-gatherer family living under the light of two suns on the northern plains of Campannlat on the frigid, ice-wrapp...

On 12 August 2010 Gollancz are reissuing Brian Aldiss' colossal Helliconia Trilogy in one omnibus volume, simply entitled Helliconia ....

Paul Ali, a young British writer with Muslim parents but who calls himself a secularist, has written and published a comic novel in the trad...

Hothouse is a 'fixup' novel originally published in 1962, comprising five novelettes originally published in 1961 in The Magazine o...

Way back in the mid-1970s director Stanley Kubrick was looking for a new project and ran across Brian Aldiss' short story, 'Supertoy...

Originally published in 1958, Non-Stop (originally entitled Starship in the USA, but now restored to its original title) frequently appears...