Book 1

A Soldier Erect

by Brian Aldiss

Published 25 June 1971

The second book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy, available for the first time on ebook.

A Soldier Erect finds Horatio Stubbs, the hero of The Hand-Reared Boy, serving in the Far East during WW2. Thankfully, the war doesn’t get in the way of his sexual escapades.

Brian says: “In the second novel concerning Horatio Stubbs, World War II has broken out. Stubbs is serving in the British army in India and Burma. After tussles with whores in India comes the struggle with the Japanese in the jungle. The only novel to describe a soldier’s life in the `Forgotten Army’. Like its predecessor, Soldier was a best seller in England.”


Book 3

A Rude Awakening

by Brian Aldiss

Published 6 April 1978

The final volume of the Horatio Stubbs trilogy, available as an ebook for the first time.

The war is over but our hero, Horatio Stubbs, is still in Sumatra and still narrating his sexual adventures.

Brian says: "In the third (and last) of the HAND REARED BOY series, equatorial juices flow. Stubbs is now in Sumatra, the official war being over. But the birth pains of the new Indonesian republic interfere with Stubbs's sexual involvements with, among others, two Chinese ladies."