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• Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.

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• The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie two old attributes of the ape—tribalism and inquisitiveness.

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• Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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• Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

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• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

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• Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

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• It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one’s own creativity – that’s a much tougher matter.

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• I can’t help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it’s psychological truth.

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• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

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• Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

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Birth:	18th August, 1925
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Editor, Novelist, Writer

About

Brian Aldiss was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England. He is an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He has received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His influential works include the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.

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