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Brian Stableford
Seven lucid and entertaining essays on masters of science fiction and fantasy literature, including Bob Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Douglas Adams, Stephen R. Donaldson, and more.
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In the culture of the galaxy, the Star-Pilots of the starships that link the cosmos together have become the great heroes of the day. Grainger, who has become a legend…
This collection of critical essays explores the philosophy, theory, and history of science fiction and fantasy, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through more recent times.
Six of the world’s seven edges have been rounded out and the last one, edging a thin sliver of land where magic still survives, is in a parlous state. No…
This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s 1768 opening tale, in which the hero…
Zephaniah Corcoran has just returned to Earth after a seven-year jaunt to Jupiter where his special–some would say dubious–talents were put to the test in attempted communication with the Jovian…
Crawford Tillinghast was killed when a machine that he built in order to break down the barriers between dimensions exploded, and his three domestic servants disappeared, leaving his old friend…
Alastor, the son of an iron-master, has no inclination to follow his father’s trade, preferring to work with wood. He and his musically-talented sister Catrianne leave the foundry to go…
Long-undisturbed Tenebrion Wood, identified in the Domesday Book and named by the Romans after a kind of night-sprit, stands in the way of a road development. Environmentalist Steve Pearlman recruits…
THE EARTH IS DYING! In the far future Earth is dying. Society has reverted to a more primitive life, much like the Middle Ages. Two men, Matthew and his brother…
The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert…
In the world of the future, dying is easy–it’s the afterliving that’s hard! When Nicky is killed at the age of 27 by a suicide bomber, he wakes up in…
In the near future, xenogenetist Carly Maclaine is the clone of a notorious pioneer in the field, who created an artificial intelligence called Napoleon. Napoleon has been on the run…
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger…
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds such as New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots have become the great heroes of the day. Grainger…
They call them the rat-catchers. They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space…
They call them the rat-catchers. They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, sent out by an economically despressed Earth to re-establish contact with its long-lost colony worlds. Dendra is a…
Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has the Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at…
The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected…
Written by a science fiction author, this guide provides advice for readers on how to write for the genre. The craft of writing novels which stretch the imagination is explored.
The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth’s colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two…
The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn’t seem…
After laboring for thousands of years, the people of Earth, fleeing ecological disaster, have built a new, clean, stable world on a worldwide platform erected over the entire land surface…
Paul Furneret, a young artist working in Paris in 1901, is invited to attend a seance at Camille Flammarion’s after having participated in an experiment in automatic drawing in which…
They call them the rat-catchers. They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with…
The second volume of this narrative history of scientific romance covers the period from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Great War, including detailed discussions of the definitive contributions…
For hundreds of years the male members of the Kilcannon family have considered themselves beneficiaries of distortions in the statistical distribution of chance, associating their most fortunate windfalls with visual…
Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully…
This collection of stories about possible future developments in biotechnology juxtaposes the ultra-large scale of Mortimer Gray’s History of Death , which encapsulates several thousand years of human history, both…
In the longest of the four Cthulhu Mythos stories in this collection, The Legacy of Erich Zann, the violin and the music that the ill-fated musician left behind become the…
They call it Asgard, the Home of the Gods. Beneath its artificial shell are at least three vast cave-systems, each one the size of an Earth-like world; and beneath those…
Asgard’s not an easy world to get away from. Mike Rousseau only wants to take a vacation in his home system, but he’s back before he has time to draw…
The gods of Asgard are in deep trouble. If they can’t defeat their internal enemies, the starlet in the macroworld’s core will blow up, killing trillions humanoids in its various…
It’s 1999, and most of the world’s computers, according to common belief, are set to regard the coming year as Year Zero rather than 2000. The Devil certainly appears to…
The masters of the Euchronian Millennium are panicking. The fabric of their ideal society on the platform built over the Earth has been ripped, and the order that they hold…
The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues…
This collection brings together the ten earliest stories in Brian Stableford’s series of Tales of the Biotech Revolution, all written in the 1980s, except for one anomalous example from the…
S. Fowler Wright’s novel, The World Below, one of the classics of British scientific romance, was hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction when it was published in the U.S…
Eight tales of science fiction and fantasy perched on the edge of reality, including one dark fantasy novella, Appearances, published for the first time anywhere.
A plastic surgeon of the future is charged with re-creating the face of Adam, the first man. Is he just a pawn in a scheme to defraud a billionaire, or…
Mathieu Galmier, formerly of the Pasteur Institute, has to leave Paris under a cloud when one of his pioneering experiments in hematology goes awry. He is given refuge – of…
The enigmatic immortal Axel Rathenius has been commissioned to paint a triptych illustrating the life of Orpheus. Meanwhile, an enigmatic legacy propels him, his agent Myrica Mavor, Madame Vashti Savage…
Brian M. Stableford’s latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the artists’ colony of Mnemosyne, an island…
The concluding volume of the trilogy, Living with the Dead is set in and around Toulouse. Paul, who no longer needs the help of hypnotists to contact the dead, begins…
Anthology of 14 stories about automata written by French writers in the latter part of the 19th century.
Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. This…
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Brian Stableford’s essays cover Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Malzberg, Robert Silveberg, Mack Reynolds, Clark Ashton Smith, Philip K. Dick, David H. Keller, Theodore Sturgeon, and Stanley G…
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.