Hello Earth, Are You There?
A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial Intelligence
Hello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Brian Aldiss, OBE.
A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and vice-president of the international H.G. Wells Society, Aldiss wrote nearly one hundred books and over three hundred short stories.
This collection, celebrating Aldiss’ centenary, gathers some of the best short stories from across his stellar career, with an introduction written by William Boyd.
From the tale of a boy who finds companionship from his robot Teddy – which was the basis of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film A.I Artificial Intelligence – to robots controlling Earth in the 44th century, to the time-travelling hunt for a brontosaurus, this collection is a must-have for all Aldiss fans and an excellent introduction to the work of a true science fiction master.
Brian Aldiss OBE, was a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist.
Born in Norfolk in 1925, Brian worked as a bookseller after leaving the army, providing the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries. His first published science fiction work was Criminal Record, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Brian went on to write nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories and edited numerous anthologies of science fiction and fantasy stories and the magazine SF Horizons.
The winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Brian was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004.
A vice-president of the international H.G. Wells Society, Brian was awarded the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in 2000. He was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2005. Brian died in 2017 in Oxford at the age of 92.