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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 issues that are already controversial, to stories that feature drastically altered worlds. Most of the stories are domestic dramas in which ordinary people are tr...
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    17,40 €

  • A Glimpse of Infinity
    Brian Stableford
    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 so precious seems to be teetering on the brink of collapse. In order to save it, the Hegemon has decided to obliterate all life in the perpetually covered Underworld of Earth from which the threat comes--but...
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    16,62 €

  • Champavert
    Petrus Borel / Brian Stableford
    Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French 'contes cruels,' and the book still remains among the cruellest of them all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short stories ever published; the only reason that it has never been translated before is that the job was so challenging that only an insane person would tackle it. Pétrus Borel the Lycanthrope (as he ...
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    16,36 €

  • A Vision of Hell
    Brian Stableford
    The people of the Euchronian Millennium had been reminded of the Underworld that existed beneath the platform on which they had constructed their better, cleaner, safer world--leaving the original surface of Earth a dark, dreary, and forgotten place. That awareness had become a political pawn, which many different people were trying to manipulate in their own interests. In the ...
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    16,65 €

  • The Napus
    Léon Daudet / Brian Stableford
    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 the Aristotle Institute, who is also a Polyplast--the result of an experiment in selective breeding intended to produce pacifists, but which has also had perverse ...
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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 going well--except for Carl Magner, the man who’s been having bad dreams. He shouldn’t be having dreams at all, because dreams have been banished from the society o...
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    16,61 €

  • Year Zero
    Brian Stableford
    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 think so, and is planning an apocalypse of evil for New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, Molly, who’s having a hard enough time just trying to stay clean and get her kids back from Social Services, becomes accident...
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    18,38 €

  • The Bacchantes
    Léon Daudet / Brian Stableford
    In this classic science fiction novel, Romain Ségétan, a brilliant scientist whose creativity is intimately linked to his erotic experience, particularly in its visual dimension, is struggling to develop a technology to capture and control the 'waves of time,' which will allow recurrent images and other echoes of the past to be brought forward into clearer focus. After being te...
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    16,41 €

  • 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, thirteen years before. Unfortunately, Dupin is unable to attend the performance, leaving his uninformed friend and narrator Reynolds to try to make sense of th...
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    16,40 €

  • 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 planet, and he can only do that by duplicating himself. Unfortunately, the software version of himself that’s trying to operate within Asgard’s virtual spa...
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    16,13 €

  • 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 once again. His new mission is even more dangerous than the last one, the number of his enemies has increased vastly, and his friends haven’t improved at all. By way of compensati...
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    16,28 €

  • Asgard’s Secret
    Brian Stableford
    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, possibly many more. No one knows how many layers there might be, and no one knows what secrets might be buried down at the 'center'--if there is a center. At some time in the distant past, Asgard had suffered ...
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    16,30 €

  • The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
    Brian Stableford
    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 target, some fifteen years later, for a mysterious searcher who will stop at nothing--including murder--to obtain them. Edgar Allan Poe’s great detective, Auguste Dupin, who’s endangered because of his conn...
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    16,47 €

  • The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
    Brian Stableford
    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 past and future, with the intimate scale of 'Next to Godliness,' in which a dinner party goes wrong, in a fashion obliquely connected to the psychotropic drug-patch...
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    16,41 €

  • War Games
    Brian Stableford
    Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured intointerstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The humanrace has, in consequence, been fully militarized, its educational systembeing a form of military training--which includes, among other disciplines,the elimination of fear from the human psyche. Attitudes to the war have,however, been...
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    16,36 €

  • 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 another, operated by electronically-connected 'handlers' -- with viewers receiving transmissions of the combatants’ emotions as their simulations slug it out. Ryan Hart, banished from...
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    16,66 €

  • The Paradox of the Sets
    Brian Stableford
    The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before theship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn’t seem to make any sense, and neither does the situation of the indigenous aliens--the Sets--that have helped the colony survive and thrive. Alex Alexander doesn’t take long to work out a hypothesis that might explain ...
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    16,61 €

  • Balance of Power
    Brian Stableford
    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 sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Da...
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    16,53 €

  • Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of various sorts, and that might require the elaborate design of entire imaginary worlds. This book provides...
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    16,56 €

  • 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, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the vis...
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    17,73 €

  • Journey to the Core of Creation
    Brian Stableford
    It is 1847, and Paris is edging closer to its next revolution, but somethingis also astir inside Mont Dragon in the Ardèche. This is a place of annualpilgrimage for a band of enigmatic nomads, and also a place of interest to theambitious Bishop of Viviers. In spite of his distaste for travel, AugusteDupin makes the long southward journey, in the hope that he might be able tohel...
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    16,43 €

  • The Gates of Eden
    Brian Stableford
    Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space programhas been in the doldrums for centuries, as has the Earth itself. Hyperspacebeing impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there is noalternative but to wait for vessels sent out at sub-light speed decadespreviously to find somewhere worth going. Unfortunately, when one finallydoes, it does...
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    16,57 €

  • 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, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who f...
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    17,72 €

  • Streaking
    Brian Stableford
    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 distortions they call 'streaks.' Canny Kilcannon is unsure as to how far he can go in tempting fate. Then he meets Lissa Lo, the female beneficiary of a similar ce...
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    16,01 €

  • Critical Threshold
    Brian Stableford
    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 stable planet covered by a huge, unchanging forest. The settlement sent to tame the world has failed, and now seems beyond redemption; but the crew of the Daedalus still has to find out ...
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    18,81 €

  • The Florians
    Brian Stableford
    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 colonies. Alex Alexander, ship’s biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially a...
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    16,49 €

  • Nature’s Shift
    Brian Stableford
    In the not-so-distant future, when biology is changing the human form and structure, Peter Bell the Third renews his friendship with Rowland Usher. In the new House of Usher that Rowland is creating in the Orinoco Delta, Usher is conducting experiments in genetics. Rowland’s twin sister, Magdalen, who has committed suicide for reasons that no one understands, suddenly begins 'h...
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    16,48 €

  • 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 own time, flying the prototype vessel of a new starship.... Having escaped from his contract with Charlot, Grainger is hounded by the Caradoc Commpany, who wants ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Cthulhu Encryption
    Brian Stableford
    The Shoggoths attack: 'They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again.... They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable--but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE.' Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Com...
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    16,41 €

  • The Paradise Game
    Brian Stableford
    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 has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise--or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger...
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    16,62 €


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