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  • Promised Land
    Brian Stableford
    In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like new Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time, flying the revolutionary ship, Hooded Swan. The rain forest of Chao Phrya seems a more hospitable place than the Halcyon Drift or the underground world of Rhapsody, ...
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    16,63 €

  • Xeno’s Paradox
    Brian Stableford
    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 from the Commonwealth’s secret police--but now they need Napoleon’s help, and that means they need Carly’s as well. Maclaine suddenly becomes a person of interest to the other Artificial Intelligen...
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    18,76 €

  • Rhapsody in Black
    Brian Stableford
    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 in his own lifetime, is drafted to fly the prototype (the Hooded Swan) of a new ship that could revolutionize space travel.The members of the ultra-ascetic Church of the Exclusive Reward have colonized a number o...
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    16,59 €

  • Zombies Don’t Cry
    Brian Stableford
    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 a Resurrection Center, having been made into an albino, pink-eyed 'zombie.' The beleagued community of zombies is dominated by the very old, and subject to all manner of social discrimination. Nicky has lost his girlfriend, and n...
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    18,94 €

  • Halcyon Drift
    Brian Stableford
    In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He’s also picked...
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    18,83 €

  • The Quintessence of August
    Brian Stableford
    During an August heat-wave, the Comte de Saint-Germain seeks the help of detective Auguste Dupin. Someone--or someTHING--is trying to kill him! The Comte has inherited a magical cello and a mysterious sealed box. A psychic vampire (an 'egregore') intends to use the cello and a magical musical composition to steal another soul. Can Dupin and his faithful companion unravel the pu...
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    18,89 €

  • Frankenstein in London (the Empire of the Necromancers 3)
    Brian Stableford
    1823. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. Many competing factions now plans to use such technology to reshape the world. Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple is forced to team up with Victor Frankenstein and the vampire Count Szandor against a secret cabal of Illuminati led by Joseph Balsamo. Meanwhile, in ...
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    23,19 €

  • Valdemar’s Daughter / The Mad Trist (Wildside Double #10)
    Brian Stableford
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles' (flip one book over to read the second title), here is the tenth Wildside Double:VALDEMAR’S DAUGHTER: A ROMANCE OF MESMERISM, by Brian StablefordFollowing the sad demise of Ernest Valdemar, as related in the story by Edgar Allan Poe, his mortal remains are sent to his daughter in Paris--but go astray--and detective Auguste Dupin must tr...
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    17,57 €

  • Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Undead (Wildside Double #4
    Brian Stableford
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles,' two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Double.'Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution,' by Brian Stableford.In the year 2550, where premediated murder is supposedly impossible, a serial killer begins attacking very old men with specially bred plants that eat them from the ins...
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    16,36 €

  • The Decadent World-View
    Brian Stableford
    The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with bibliography and index. 3 ...
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    16,48 €

  • Luscinia
    Brian Stableford
    Cris’s life falls apart after he and his girlfriend Claire are tattooed by artist Devon Curtin--who’s murdered shortly after. Twenty years later, Curtin’s fans, who believe his art was magical, are putting together an exhibit of his work, including the never-before-seen tattooes on Cris and Claire. Cris wants nothing to do with the show, but soon realizes that he and Claire mig...
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    16,58 €

  • The Terror of Madame Atomos
    Andre Caroff / Brian Stableford
    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. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police.This classic French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s is presented in ...
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    25,34 €

  • Creators of Science Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    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 Poe, Camille Flammarion, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell Jr., Edward E. 'Doc' Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Gregory Benford, and Ian Watson. Comple...
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    16,45 €

  • Exotic Encounters
    Brian Stableford
    Thirty-four review essays of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors and musical groups, including works by the following: Poul Anderson, Kim Antieau, Jackie Askew, Ataraxia, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, David Britton, Philip George Chadwick, Hal Clement, Kathryn Cramer, Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, Stephen Dedman, Marcus Donnelly, Greg Egan, Michael Flynn, Forkbeard ...
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    16,53 €

  • Frankenstein and the Vampire Countess (the Empire of the Necromancers 2)
    Brian Stableford
    1821. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple, on the trail of criminal mastermind John Devil, who plans to use such technology to reshape the world, is now forced to team up with Paris Morgue supervisor Jean-Pierre Severin, Malo de Treguern and Frankenstein’s own creation ...
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    23,15 €

  • Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    Eight essays on science fiction and fantasy: 'Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction,' 'Immortality in Science Fiction,' 'Why There Is (Almost) No Such Thing as Science Fiction,' 'Perfectibility and the Novel of the Future,' 'In Search of a New Genre,' 'Ecology and Dystopia,' 'Cosmic Horror,' and 'Growing Up as a Superhero.' Complete with bibliography and index. 3 ...
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    16,49 €

  • Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, 'Against the New Gods,' on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index. 3 ...
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    16,57 €

  • The World Beyond
    Brian Stableford
    This stunning sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s science fiction masterpiece, the World Below, sends a time traveler from the 20th century to the Earth of 1,000,000 A.D., to save the world from the attack of the extraterrestrials. A first-rate adventure based on a classic work of fantastic literature. 3 ...
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    18,22 €

  • The Plurality of Worlds
    Brian Stableford
    In an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the insect-like inhabitants of the moon. But the empire is under attack from enemies both without and within--and so is the planet Earth!--and the five men must find a way to thwart the S...
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    17,35 €

  • Alien Abduction
    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 (AlAbAn), he sees a pattern in the stories being told, and thinks his own experiences might provide a key. While his love life continues to deteriorate, Steve must grapple with que...
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    18,38 €

  • Prelude to Eternity
    Brian Stableford
    In an alternate England in which Cromwell’s revolution succeeded, Michael Laurel attends a 19th-century party to witness the demonstration of the first time machine. But Michael comes to realize that the entire future of the world might be at stake--and the past as well--if the machine malfunctions. How can he, a mere artist, possibly make a difference to the ultimate fate of t...
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    16,40 €

  • The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
    Brian Stableford
    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. ...
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    15,46 €

  • The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
    Brian Stableford
    Seven tales of the near future, one published for the first time, part of the author’s long-running and cutting-edge 'Biotech Revolution' series. 3 ...
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    16,53 €

  • The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas
    Brian Stableford
    Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: 'The Path of Progess,' 'Kalamada’s Blessing,' 'The Shepherd’s Daughter,' 'Shadows of the Past,' 'Reconstruction,' and the original short fantasy novel, 'The Return of the Djinn.' 3 ...
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    16,58 €

  • Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica
    Brian Stableford
    Eleven stories of science fiction and fantasy by a master writer of the fantastic, including four tales published for the first time. 3 ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies
    Brian Stableford
    Ten funny short stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including the first publication of the long fantasy novella, 'The Phantom of Teirbrun.' ...
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    18,90 €

  • Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
    Brian Stableford
    In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett. Complete with detailed index. 3 ...
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    25,25 €

  • Gothic Grotesques
    Brian Stableford
    Ten essays on horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index. 3 ...
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    22,18 €

  • News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
    Brian Stableford
    This new collection gathers together 45 of Stableford’s best critical reviews on works of science fiction, fantasy, horror, decadent literature, and nonfiction books about these topics. His comments are witty, intelligent, and full of insight. Complete with comprehensive index. 3 ...
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    25,33 €

  • The Devil’s Party
    Brian Stableford
    Allegations of 'Satanic abuse' became fashionable in the late twentieth century, but such episodes actually date back many centuries. Well-known critic and historian Brian Stableford provides a thorough history of Satanism, from its earliest times to the modern period, and also examines the appearance of 'His Nibs' in horror and other fiction. Complete with bibliography and ind...
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    18,63 €


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