[1] He wrote the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I.

[2] Brian Wilson Aldiss was born on 18 August 1925,[3] above his paternal grandfather's draper's shop in Dereham, Norfolk.

When Aldiss's grandfather died, his father, Bill (the younger of two sons), sold his share in the shop and the family left Dereham.

[6] At the age of 6, Aldiss went to Framlingham College, but moved to Devon and was sent to board at West Buckland School in 1939 after the outbreak of World War II.

[9] His army experience inspired the novel Hothouse[10] and the Horatio Stubbs second and third books, A Soldier Erect and A Rude Awakening, respectively.

According to ISFDB, his first speculative fiction in print was the short story Criminal Record, published by John Carnell in the July 1954 issue of Science Fantasy.

By this time, his earnings from writing matched his wages in the bookshop, and he made the decision to become a full-time writer.

[citation needed] Aldiss led the voting for Most Promising New Author of 1958 at the next year's Worldcon, but finished behind "no award".

[12] Around 1964, he and long-time collaborator Harry Harrison started the first ever journal of science fiction criticism, Science Fiction Horizons, which during its brief span of two issues published articles and reviews by such authors as James Blish, and featured a discussion among Aldiss, C. S. Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issue[16] and an interview with William S. Burroughs in the second.

[17] In 1967 Algis Budrys listed Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany as "an earthshaking new kind of" writers, and leaders of the New Wave.

The later anthologies enjoyed the same success as the first, and all three were eventually published together as The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973), which also went into a number of reprints.

Around this time, he edited a large-format volume Science Fiction Art (1975), with selections of artwork from the magazines and pulps.

[23] (The exhibition title denotes the writer/artist's notion, "words streaming from one side of his brain inspiring images in what he calls 'the other hemisphere'".

[28] Aldiss was the "Permanent Special Guest" at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) from 1989 through 2008.

[31] He was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in the 2005 Birthday Honours list.