Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. - Brian Aldiss

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Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Brian Aldiss

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About Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss (August 18, 1925 – August 19, 2017) was an English writer of general fiction and science fiction.

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Pen Names: Jael Cracken

Birth Name: Brian Wilson Aldiss

Alternative Names: Brian W. Aldiss • Dr. Peristyle • C. C. Shackleton

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As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, “Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.”

Evil is loose in the world. I have to go.” “I don’t believe in evil. Mistakes, yes. Not evil.” “Then perhaps you are afraid to believe it exists. It exists wherever men are.

All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that’s not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?