“What he gives us here is the reality that underlies the fiction: personal stories, often of pain, that illuminate the work.”

Alan Yentob, from the foreword

“Brian Aldiss has published something like a half-dozen volumes of essays in his long career, as well as a couple of fascinating autobiographies, but well into his eighties he still seems to be discovering new things about himself and his work. His newest collection, An Exile on Planet Earth, published in connection with the donation of Aldiss’s archives to the Bodleian Library, revisits some familiar material—travel essays, H.G. Wells, his military service in WWI, his love of Mary Shelley, and his experiences with Kubrick and Spielberg—but also includes some fascinating insights into his own fiction and some provocative notions about SF in general, all loosely organized around the theme of alienation suggested by the title.”

Locus

 “Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential—and one of the best—science fiction writers Britain has ever produced.”

Iain Banks, author of Transition

"Masterful English prose."—Paul Kincaid, author of Strange Horizons

Paul Kincaid, author of Strange Horizons

“The godfather of British science fiction.”

Sunday Times