Brian Aldiss Fiction Quotations

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

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

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