Books by Brian Stableford and Complete Book Reviews

Veteran British author Stableford's Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in...
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Brian Stableford, Author . Prime $29.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-8095-4484-4
In this unusual ghost story from Stableford (The Carnival of Destruction, etc.), Kit Miner, a young Yorkshire bus driver, doesn't know what to make of the strange aural and tactile hallucinations she has in her cheap boardinghouse room until...
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Brian Stableford, Author Cosmos Books $29.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-58715-407-2
British SF author Brian Stableford (Designer Genes) offers a story collection, Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies, which includes such outr gems as the title tale, ""The Last Worshipper of Proteus"" and ""The Evil That Men Do.""
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Brian Stableford, Author Cosmos Books $15 (172p) ISBN 978-1-58715-412-6
Brian Stableford's Complications and Other Stories, the distinguished British SF author's first collection in almost seven years, includes 10 stories that testify to his versatility at shorter length.
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Brian Stableford, Author Cosmos Books $15 (184p) ISBN 978-1-58715-408-9
British SF author Brian Stableford (Designer Genes) offers a story collection, Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies, which includes such outr gems as the title tale, ""The Last Worshipper of Proteus"" and ""The Evil That Men Do.""
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Brian Stableford. Snuggly, , $17.95 ISBN 978-1-943813-54-4
In this slow-burning, introspective fantasy from Snuggly publisher Stableford (The Mirror of Dionysus), eccentric writer Simon Cannick becomes involved in the mysterious doings of an unusually long-lived family after he inherits a cottage in the...
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Brian Stableford. Snuggly, $15.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-1-64525-051-7
Stableford (The Revolutions of Time and Space) weaves a literary exploration of color science through this intelligent if unevenly paced tale about the intersection of art and the occult. Adrian Stamford, a “biogeek” and PhD engineering student with
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Brian Stableford. Snuggly, $15.95 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-64525-065-4
Stableford (The Elusive Shadows) sets his clever fantasy jeux d'esprit in the Reservation, a vividly realized "Ghetto" where avatars of postmortal existence—vamps (vampires), lykes (lycanthropes), ghosts, zombies, and skellies (sentient skeletons)—ha
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Brian Stableford. Snuggly, $17.50 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64525-092-0
Stableford’s latest (after The Revelations of Time and Space) takes readers to post-WWI Britain for a tale of curiosity and dread. Tom “Linny” Andersley, a botanist and WWI vet, is reacquainted with his Eton friend Lawrence “Titus” Oates after Titus’
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Brian Stableford, Author . Tor $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0168-0
British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity's first...
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Brian Stableford, Author . Tor $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0169-7
In this cerebral novel, the capstone to British author Stableford's (Inherit the Earth, etc.) much praised six-volume future history concerning the search for "emortality" (technologically assisted near-immortality), Madoc Tamlin, a 22nd-
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Brian Stableford, Author Mark V. Ziesing $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-929480-80-0
The Wellsian scientific romance gets a vigorous retooling in this captivating mix of fantasy, science fiction and metaphysics from Stableford (The Carnival of Destruction, 1994). It is 1895, and in a London salon a group that includes, among others,
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Brian Stableford, Author Tor Books $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-87207-6
The futuristic biotech world of Stableford's acclaimed SF novella Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), expanded upon in last year's novel Inherit the Earth, provides the foundation for this sequel. After an ecological collapse brought on by...
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Brian Stableford, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86493-4
Best known in the U.S. for his stylishly written horror novels and alternate histories, Stableford (The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires; The Carnival of Destruction), who began his career as an SF writer, returns to his roots with a complex, hard-SF...
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Brian Stableford, Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87206-9
Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford's Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren't much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born more than five centuries...
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Brian Stableford, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $20.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-88184-742-0
The year is 1623. Attila the Hun is a vampire and so are Richard the Lionhearted and the Pope. Such is the alarming premise of this richly detailed ``alternative history'' in which the era ia dominated by a minority race of vampires. Edmund Cordery,
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Brian Stableford, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (395p) ISBN 978-0-88184-932-5
First published in the U.K., this ambitious yet ultimately unsuccessful sequel revisits the metaphysical themes of Stableford's The Werewolves of London while offering scant new action to anchor them. In London in 1893, 20 years after physician...
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Brian Stableford, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (467p) ISBN 978-0-88184-916-5
British science fiction writer Stableford, who made quite a splash last year with the U.S. publication of his historical vampire epic The Empire of Fear , here offers a compelling mixture of lycanthropy, sorcery and biblical mythology in a Victorian
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Brian Stableford, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0122-3
God is dead and the universe is breaking down in this climactic entry in Stableford's dark fantasy trilogy, which began with The Werewolves of London and continued with The Angel of Pain. Still alive are seven fallen angels who are fearful about...
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