![]() He also wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers' trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, which attracted the attention of Charles Monteith, an editor at the publisher Faber and Faber. His Army experience inspired the Horatio Stubbs second and third books, A Soldier Erect and A Rude Awakening, respectively.Īfter the war, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. ![]() In 1943, during the Second World War, he joined the Royal Signals and saw action in Burma. Wells and Robert Heinlein, and later Philip K. As a child he discovered the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction, and read all the novels by H. At the age of 6, he went to Framlingham College but moved to Devon and was sent to board at West Buckland School in Devon in 1939 after the outbreak of the war. ![]() As a 3-year-old, Aldiss started to write stories which his mother would bind and put on a shelf. He had an older sister who was stillborn, and a younger sister. ![]() Aldiss' mother, Dot, was the daughter of a builder. When Aldiss' grandfather died, his father, Bill (the younger of two sons), sold his share in the shop and the family left Dereham. ![]() Early life, education, and military serviceĪldiss was born on 18 August 1925, above his paternal grandfather's draper's shop in Dereham, Norfolk. ![]()
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