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  • A Clash of Symbols A Clash of Symbols
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    A Clash of Symbols

    Brian Stableford discusses all of James Blish's significant work, his major and minor themes, and places his career in the perspective of science fiction history during the post-war period.
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  • Science Fiction Voices #4 Science Fiction Voices #4
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    Science Fiction Voices #4

    Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews four writers, artists, and editors of science fiction: Charles D. Hornig, Bob Shaw, Frank Kelly Freas, and Brian M. Stableford. With an introduction by Raymond Z. Gallun.
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  • Weird Tales 317-320 (Fall 1999-Summer 2000) Weird Tales 317-320 (Fall 1999-Summer 2000)
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    Weird Tales 317-320 (Fall 1999-Summer 2000)

    The second four issues of Weird Tales as published by DNA Publications present new work by Brian Stableford, Darrell Schweitzer, Ian Watson, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, Hugh B...
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  • Outside the Human Aquarium Outside the Human Aquarium
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    Outside the Human Aquarium

    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...
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  • Vector 287 Vector 287
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    Vector 287

    Vector is the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, publishing articles and features on genre fiction across the world, with some focus on UK science fiction. Vector publishes...
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  • The Vampire Almanac (Volume 2) The Vampire Almanac (Volume 2)
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    The Vampire Almanac (Volume 2)

    The stories contained in this collection, featuring some of the most famous vampires in literary history, incorporate all of these contradictions; in them, vampires can be both super-human and...
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  • Creators of Science Fiction Creators of Science Fiction
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    Creators of Science Fiction

    Well-known critic and novelist Brian Stableford here discusses the writers, editors, and publishers who helped create the modern genre of science fiction: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allan...
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  • From a Faraway Land From a Faraway Land
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    From a Faraway Land

    Originally published in 1898, From a Faraway Land, here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, is one of the quintessential collections of Symbolist short fiction, by Remy de...
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  • The Scaffold and Other Cruel Tales The Scaffold and Other Cruel Tales
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    The Scaffold and Other Cruel Tales

    In this collection of "Cruel Tales," we meet a unique and colorful cast of extraordinary characters such as Akedysseril the Queen of India, Mayeris the big game hunter who capured the sacred white...
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  • The Sociology of Science Fiction The Sociology of Science Fiction
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    The Sociology of Science Fiction

    Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes "a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with the questions of why SF authors write what they...
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  • Reincarnation and Redemption Reincarnation and Redemption
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    Reincarnation and Redemption

    Gathered together and translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, the current volume contains three bizarre novellas of the paranormal by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry (1843-1915),...
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  • For Reading in the Bath For Reading in the Bath
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    For Reading in the Bath

    For Reading in the Bath, here presented in English for the first time in a delightful translation by Brian Stableford, is one of a number of risqué collections of ultra-short fiction produced...
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  • The Tarantulas' Parlor The Tarantulas' Parlor
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    The Tarantulas' Parlor

    Praised by Borges, the Unkind Tales of Léon Bloy were produced in a phase of literary evolution that was exploratory and experimental, and hence intrinsically exciting. Lingering on the...
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  • Errant Vice Errant Vice
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    Errant Vice

    Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir...
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  • The Terror of Madame Atomos The Terror of Madame Atomos
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    The Terror of Madame Atomos

    The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family...
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  • Faustina and Other Stories Faustina and Other Stories
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    Faustina and Other Stories

    Renée Vivien and her lover Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt collaborated on two volumes of short prose, Copeaux and Netsuké, which, translated for the first time into English...
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  • Halyartes Halyartes
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    Halyartes

    Presented here, for the first time in English, in a translation by Brian Stableford, are the complete prose poems of Éphraïm Mikhaël, a disciple of Mallarmé and an important...
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  • The Wandering Jew's Daughter The Wandering Jew's Daughter
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    The Wandering Jew's Daughter

    "The rays of sunlight passing over Lotte's diaphanous beauty lacked the power to color her whiteness. 'May God have pity on us!' stammered the nurse. 'She was like that when I saw her for the first...
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  • Morose Vignettes Morose Vignettes
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    Morose Vignettes

    Proses moroses, Remy de Gourmont's classic collection of prose poems, here presented as Morose Vignettes, in its first English translation, by Brian Stableford, is, like a series of fine charcoal...
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  • The World Above the World The World Above the World
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    The World Above the World

    A balloon ascent to the Heavens... A man with X-ray vision... A utopian metal city built on giant pylons above Paris... A sexless world in which women reproduce parthenogenetically and man is unknown...
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  • The Great Cataclysm The Great Cataclysm
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    The Great Cataclysm

    Henri Allorge's The Great Cataclysm (1927) takes place in the Age of Science in the year 9978 when Earth has cooled down and a population of scientists and artists live in a handful of great cities...
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  • The Memoirs of Maxime Odin The Memoirs of Maxime Odin
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    The Memoirs of Maxime Odin

    In 1831 Charles Nodier began to publish a series of "Extraits des mémoires de Maxime Odin" in the Revue de Paris. Although "Odin" is an anagram of the first four letters of Nodier, the relationship...
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  • Ignis, the Central Fire Ignis, the Central Fire
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    Ignis, the Central Fire

    Ignis (1883) is about the industrial exploitation of Earth's central fire by a multinational cartel. It also contains fanciful digressions into biological engineering, Utopian city planning, the...
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  • Stirring Stories Stirring Stories
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    Stirring Stories

    Charles Barbara (1817-1866), though principally remembered today for being "a friend of Baudelaire," was, arguably, one of the more influential writers of his time, being one of the earliest authors...
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    Heterocosms

    This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and the Majesty of Truth: Reflections on the Concept...
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  • The Red Spider The Red Spider
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    The Red Spider

    "Delphi Fabrice" (the pseudonym of Gaston-Henri-Adhémar Risselin, 1877-1937), the most adamant of Jean Lorrain's disciples, is credited with authoring over one hundred books. None, however, is more...
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  • The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales
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    The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales

    "There are other beings who know the roads of life and are curious about the paths of death." So says the eccentric Doctor Tribulat Bonhomet of the Eventualists' Society, adding "if we were able to...
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  • The Temple of Gnide The Temple of Gnide
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    The Temple of Gnide

    Originally published anonymously in 1725, and here presented in a fresh translation by Brian Stableford, The Temple of Gnide is Montesquieu's illicit smash hit from the Age of Enlightenment. The...
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  • The Gardens of the Apocalypse The Gardens of the Apocalypse
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    The Gardens of the Apocalypse

    Richard Bessière made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF. Two of his best works of the period are The Seven Rings Of...
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  • The Conqueror of Death The Conqueror of Death
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    The Conqueror of Death

    In the 1890s, a generation before Hugo Gernsback, Louis Figuier, editor of the French popular science magazine La Science Illustrée, made a concerted effort to define and delimit the genre of roman...
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  • The Master of Light The Master of Light
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    The Master of Light

    Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that...
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    Blood is the Life

    Today the vampire is a major cultural icon and can be found in breakfast foods, comics, television, computer games, films, and books from academic studies to best-selling novels. While readers may be...
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  • The Wayward Muse The Wayward Muse
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    The Wayward Muse

    Meet the enigmatic immortal Axel Rathenius, the mournful Hecate Rain, the mysterious Nicodemus Rham, keeper of the Lucifer's Light on Devil's Rocks, the flamboyant antiquary Ragan Barling, the...
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  • My Lunatic Asylum My Lunatic Asylum
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    My Lunatic Asylum

    Charles Barbara (1817-1866), though principally remembered today for being "a friend of Baudelaire," was, arguably, one of the more influential writers of his time, being one of the earliest authors...
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  • Mysteryville Mysteryville
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    Mysteryville

    Driven from China by the Boxers, explorer Alcide Trémalet chances upon a secret futuristic city created in the 18th century by French Protestants fleeing persecution. This New Paris, or...
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  • The Anatomy of Love and Murder The Anatomy of Love and Murder
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    The Anatomy of Love and Murder

    Although Gaston Danville was one of the earliest contributors to the French magazine, Mercure de France, considered a voice for the symbolist movement, he regarded himself as one of a new generation...
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  • Hannibal's Ring Hannibal's Ring
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    Hannibal's Ring

    Written in 1834, but not published until eight years later, in 1842, due to its bizarre style and format, Hannibal’s Ring is one of the most interesting of the early works of...
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  • Homo-Deus Homo-Deus
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    Homo-Deus

    Meet Dr. Marc Vanel, son of a scientist and a beautiful exotic spy, polymath, engineer, gifted with prodigious strength and intelligence, trained by the Brahmins of India. When Vanel acquires the...
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  • The Mystery of Kama and Brahma's Courtesans The Mystery of Kama and Brahma's Courtesans
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    The Mystery of Kama and Brahma's Courtesans

    Presented here for the first time in English, in a superb translation by Brian Stableford, are The Mystery of Kama and Brahama’s Courtesans, two outrageous, full-length novels from the pen of...
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  • A Man Among the Microbes A Man Among the Microbes
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    A Man Among the Microbes

    Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that...
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  • The Young Vampire The Young Vampire
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    The Young Vampire

    In The Young Vampire (1920), a London girl is possessed by an extra-dimensional entity which mutates her body and turns her into a living vampire. The Supernatural Assassin (1923) tells the tale of a...
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  • The Blue Peril The Blue Peril
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    The Blue Peril

    Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that...
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