Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

By: Brian Aldiss

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

'Devilishly clever and compulsive' Daily Mail

'Science Fiction at its best' Spectator

In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships. It is one of the most powerful and ambitious forays into the far future since Olaf Stapledon's classic Last and First Men.

'One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work' Science Fiction Writers©2026 Brian Aldiss (P)2026 Orion Publishing Group Limited

Critic reviews

Devilishly clever and compulsive

Brian Aldiss seems to have always had a more oceanic sense of time than even most science fiction writers, an almost measured vision of what will transpire in the long run . . . (Norman Spinrad)

One cannot help being struck by the variety of concepts, the mastery of style, the sureness of the dialogue, the depth of characterization, the fertility of ideas, and the urbanity of the wit ... here is a major talent at work

Anyone who likes to see an intelligent imagination weave people and ideas together, and finish the result with craftsmanship, should enjoy this (John Wyndham)

Science Fiction at its best