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The Face of Heaven Brian Stableford
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 of the Earth. Everything is… More
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Swan Song Brian Stableford
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 has become a legend in his… More
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Designer Genes Brian Stableford
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… More
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The Gates of Eden Brian Stableford
Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there… More
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The Mind-Riders Brian Stableford
First published in 1976, “The Mind-Riders” features a remarkable anticipation of virtual reality gaming, in which the revised sport of boxing pits physically identical virtual fighters against one… More
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The City of the Sun Brian Stableford
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 with a mysterious alien parasite,… More
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Wildeblood’s Empire Brian Stableford
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,… More
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The Dragon Man Brian Stableford
300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old “Dragon Man” can give Sara an understanding of what “e-mortality”… More
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New York Review of Science Fiction #357 Brian Stableford et al.
Special Awaken from Your Slumber Issue: Brian Stableford: Xavier de Ricard’s “poésie scientifique”; Joe Sanders: Kate Wilhelm’s extant Nothing; Ayal Hayut-man: Memory & Trauma in Rothfuss; … More
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Asgard’s Heart Brian Stableford
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 layers. Only one man can save this articifial… More
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Asgard’s Conquerors Brian Stableford
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 breath, and he’s been drafted into the Space Force … More
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Sheena and Other Gothic Tales Brian Stableford
Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn’t know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire stories included in … More
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Voyage Beneath the Waves Brian Stableford et al.
VOYAGE BENEATH THE WAVES was published two years prior to Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne, when he became aware of Jules Rengade’s serial version, felt obliged to write the magazine… More
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Yesterday Never Dies Brian Stableford
At an 1847 revival of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable, the ghost of Blaise Thibodeaux, the author of La Résonance du temps, appears in one of the boxes, just as Thibodeaux had predicted to Auguste Dupin that it would,… More
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Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations Brian Stableford
When Steve, a hapless school teacher, consults a hypnotherapist to solve his personal problems, he “remembers” being abducted by aliens. When he starts attending sessions of Alien Abductees Anonymous… More
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The Napus Brian Stableford et al.
In Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, an old man suddenly vanishes without a trace: a new plague has reached France, and will soon grow to terrible proportions. The event is witnessed by a cytologist working at … More