BRIAN ALDISS BURY MY HEART SIGNED PERSONAL LETTER RARE

The letter reads:

Dear Barbara,

I'm glad to hear from you.  Thanks for taking the trouble to write.  Margaret and I have been up to Blakeney once or twice this season, but the visits have been hurried, two days at best.  We go and see my sister in Great Ryburgh, booze, and that's about it.  I'm sorry not to have wandered around.

Honestly, I'm in the throes of creativity-you might almost say the summer of creation, if 66 wasn't a bit nearer autumn!  But inspiration seems to flow in all directions - somewhat prompted by the fact that royalty cheques are rather thinner than they were.  I've more work than I can easily cope with.

Danny Danzinger did a good piece.  Of course mother's death still rankles.  She was pretty alarming to me when I was small, but much jollier to my sister and me when we reached a more sociable age.  She had many of her faculties when she died in her eighties.  It was a shock.  Of course the home and the doctor clammed up when she died - proably afraid of being sued.  I did nothing about it, being far from vindictive: and whatever you did, it wouldn't bring mother back to life.

This was St. Luke's in Oxford, a home with a good reputation.  In fact, mother was happy there - booked herself in because she no longer wished to fend for herself.  It's all a problem, isn't it?  What do you do?  My worry's not death so much as disability and being a burden to others.  And, as you say, losing your marbles...

I'm glad you're enjoying BURY MY HEART.  I had put you down for another failed Bohemian.  In another life, I'd just sit in cafes and pubs and chat to people, preferably pretty women, and do bugger all.  So I say.  Instead, I'm really quite workaholic.  Alcoholic or workaholic, which is worse?

Albania was lovely when I was there, the people charming - though they were all fans of Brisith football, about which I know little.  It was fun there, before the trouble broke out.  As for Jugoslavia, dear ol Jugland - we just weep to think what's happening.  Margaret and I were thrilled by Sarajevo.  A good hote, museums, seventy working mosques, and law and order.  But that was 1964 , under Tito.  All the Illyrian coast is bliss, of course.  Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Kotor....the Serbs have gone absolutely crazy.  How it will end, heaven knows.

Don't worry about the barminess.  You can call me Roy if you really must and I sha'n't mind.  Keep plugging on with the novel!

Hope to call soon -

Warmest regards -

Brian

Brian Aldiss bio

Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian W(ilson) Aldiss was born on 18 August 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and is the author of more than 75 books. He was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, and West Buckland School, Devon, and served in the Royal Signals between 1943 and 1947.
After leaving the army Aldiss worked as a bookseller in Oxford for almost a decade, an experience which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), a volume of short stories. His first science fiction novel, Non-Stop, was published in 1958 while he was working as literary editor of the Oxford Mail, a post he held between 1958 and 1969. His many prize-winning science fiction titles include Hothouse (1962), which won the Hugo Award, The Saliva Tree (1966), which was awarded the Nebula, and Helliconia Spring (1982), which won both the British Science Fiction Association Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He edited SF Horizons: A Magazine of Criticism and Comment with his friend, the science fiction novelist Harry Harrison, and he has edited numerous anthologies, including Introducing SF: A Science Fiction Anthology (1964). He has also written science fiction criticism, most recently, The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1995), as well as introductions to classic novels including Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1983).
Brian Aldiss's autobiographical fiction includes The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) and A Soldier Erect (1971), and he has also written three volumes of autobiography, Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's: A Writing Life (1990), The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998) and When the Feast is Finished (1999). He is the author of several poetry collections, including Home Life with Cats (1992) and A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death (2000).
Several of his books, including Frankenstein Unbound (filmed 1990), have been adapted for the cinema. His story, 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long', was adapted and released as the film AI in 2001. His book Jocasta (2005), is a reworking of Sophocles' classic Theban plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone.

Cultural Breaks (2006), published to coincide with his eightieth birthday, is a collection of short fictions which includes commentaries on his work by his peers. His latest novel is Harm (2007).
Brian Aldiss is the recipient of numerous international awards for science-fiction writing including a Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and a Prix Jules Verne (Sweden). He lives in Oxford and was awarded an OBE in 20005 for Services to Literature.

The Brightfount Diaries   Faber and Faber, 1955

Space, Time and Nathaniel   Faber and Faber, 1957

Non-Stop   Faber and Faber, 1958

Canopy of Time   Faber and Faber, 1959

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand   Granada, 1960

Penguin Science Fiction: An Anthology   (editor)   Penguin, 1961

The Interpreter   Brown, Watson, 1961

The Male Response   Dobson, 1961

Best Fantasy Stories   Faber and Faber, 1962

Hothouse   Faber and Faber, 1962

More Penguin Science Fiction: An Anthology   (editor)   Penguin, 1963

The Airs of Earth   Faber and Faber, 1963

Greybeard   Faber and Faber, 1964

Introducing SF: A Science Fiction Anthology   Faber and Faber, 1964

The Dark Light Years   Faber and Faber, 1964

Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss   Faber and Faber, 1965

Earthworks   Faber and Faber, 1965

Cities and Stones: A Traveller's Jugoslavia   Faber and Faber, 1966

The Saliva Tree, and Other Strange Growths   Faber and Faber, 1966

An Age   Faber and Faber, 1967

Nebula Award Stories 2   (editor with H. Harrison)   Gollancz, 1967

Farewell, Fantastic Venus!   Macdonald & Co., 1968

Intangibles Inc. and Other Stories   Faber and Faber, 1968

Report on Probability A   Faber and Faber, 1968

The Future Makers: A Selection of Science Fiction from Brian Aldiss   Sidgwick and Jackson, 1968

A Brian Aldiss Omnibus   Sidgwick and Jackson, 1969

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