Sir Brian Aldiss, science fiction writer

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They’ll be dancing in the streets of Alpha Centauri and the Crab Nebula. Signs of intelligent life have been spotted on Earth: the Queen has presented Brian Aldiss with his OBE. Light-years away, alien shapes will be raising their champagne glasses in their tentacles to toast the doyen of British science-fiction writers. Copies of Helliconia Spring, The Hand-reared Boy and Trillion Year Spree will be flying off the shelves wherever life-forms can tell an imaginative yarn from a crater on an dull asteroid.

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