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  • In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
    Brian Stableford
    Most of these ten stories belong to a loosely-knit series tracking the potential effects of possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global society. 'A master of the SF short story'--Robert Reginald. 3 ...
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    18,88 €

  • Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales
    Brian Stableford
    Ten fantastic stories of humans changing into something else--vampires, animals, aliens, and others--by a modern master of science fiction and fantasy literature. 3 ...
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    17,66 €

  • The Germans on Venus
    Brian Stableford
    This second collection (after NEWS FROM THE MOON) of 13 proto-science fiction tales and other scientific romances, penned between 1796 and 1921, is translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. From cosmic journeys exploring Mars and Jupiter, examining the nature, languages and reproductive methods of various alien species, to the tal...
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    25,27 €

  • The Moment of Truth
    Brian Stableford
    A plastic surgeon of the future is charged with re-creating the face of Adam, the first man. Is he just a pawn in a scheme to defraud a billionaire, or does he seriously intend to fulfill his task. And if he’s successful, what does it mean to the world at large? 3 ...
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    18,63 €

  • The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels
    Brian Stableford
    Eleven new tales of fantasy and horror based upon the classic originals by H. P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker. 3 ...
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    17,60 €

  • 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' might mean--for herself and for the entire human world. 3 ...
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    17,58 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity
    Brian Stableford
    From 1895, when the means of visiting the future through drug-induced 'timeshadowing' is discovered by Professor Copplestone, to 12 million years AD, when the Universal Engine seeks to determine the cosmos’ ultimate fate, the vast tapestry of time is the theater of a time war between the Overmen, descendents of the vampires, Humanity, and the shadowy intelligence that waits at ...
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    27,39 €

  • The Shadow of Frankenstein (The Empire of the Necromancers 1)
    Brian Stableford
    1821. Thanks to the technique recently discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. The British Crown put their best man, former Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple on the trail of criminal mastermind Henri de Belcamp, a.k.a. John Devil, who plans to use such technology, and the 'Grey Men' it produces, to reshape the world. But behind the...
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    23,19 €

  • Glorious Perversity
    Brian Stableford
    A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde. 3 ...
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    14,37 €

  • Glorious Perversity
    Brian Stableford
    A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde. 3 ...
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    26,85 €

  • A Clash of Symbols
    Brian M. Stableford
    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. 3 ...
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    10,49 €

  • Yesterday’s Bestsellers
    Brian M. Stableford
    A study of the popluar fiction of the past. 3 ...
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    16,66 €

  • Yesterday’s Bestsellers
    Brian M. Stableford
    A study of the popluar fiction of the past. 3 ...
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    32,55 €

  • Outside the Human Aquarium
    Brian M. Stableford
    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 Sturgeon, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. 3 ...
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    28,72 €

  • Outside the Human Aquarium
    Brian Stableford
    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 Sturgeon, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. 3 ...
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    17,83 €

  • The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions
    Brian Stableford
    The stories contained herein deal, directly or indirectly, with manifest delusions. By representing the delusions they feature as delusions, they promote the delusion that delusion can eventually be undermined by the strong-minded, who will thus be enabled to avoid the 'bad faith' of which some existentialist philosophers seem to have lived in mortal terror. Included are histor...
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    16,54 €

  • An Oasis of Horror
    Brian Stableford
    Long after he was dead, French poet Charles Baudelaire inspired a Decadent Movement in France, which became definitive of fin de siecle sensibility. One of the historical and influential links between Baudelaire and the new Decadents was the Comte de Villiers de l’Isle Adam, who called the first of his own collections of Decadent prose Contes cruels, because they spurned conven...
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    25,33 €

  • The Sociology of Science Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    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 write, and why SF readers like what they like'-Interzone. Contents: Introduction; Approaches to the Sociology of Literature; The Analysis of Communicative Functions; The Evolution of ...
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    22,26 €

  • Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances
    Brian M. Stableford
    Seven lucid and entertaining essays on masters of science fiction and fantasy literature, including Bob Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Douglas Adams, Stephen R. Donaldson, and more. 3 ...
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    16,66 €

  • The Sociology of Science Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    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 write, and why SF readers like what they like'-Interzone. Contents: Introduction; Approaches to the Sociology of Literature; The Analysis of Communicative Functions; The Evolution of ...
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    37,04 €

  • Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances
    Brian M. Stableford
    Seven lucid and entertaining essays on masters of science fiction and fantasy literature, including Bob Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Douglas Adams, Stephen R. Donaldson, and more. 3 ...
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    28,83 €

  • Opening Minds
    Brian M. Stableford
    This collection of critical essays explores the philosophy, theory, and history of science fiction and fantasy, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through more recent times. 3 ...
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    30,74 €

  • Opening Minds
    Brian Stableford
    This collection of critical essays explores the philosophy, theory, and history of science fiction and fantasy, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through more recent times. 3 ...
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    17,73 €

  • The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
    Brian Stableford
    The stories in this collection deal with apparitions of various sorts, five featuring ghosts produced by the troubled consciences of their protagonists, and three imagining harassments of a more tangible -- and hence more brutal -- stripe. One or two of the characters obtain some benefit from the apparitions they experience, reflecting the supposition that it is sometimes good ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Tree of Life
    Brian Stableford
    It’s the new frontier of scientific development: genetic engineering, the crafting of species, and the self-alteration of man himself. Here are eight stories at the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution -- 'The Tree of Life,' 'The Skin Trade,' 'Out of Touch,' 'Skin Deep,' 'Carriers,' 'Rogue Terminator,' 'Home Front,' and 'Hidden Agendas' -- crafted by a talented writer w...
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    16,52 €

  • The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
    Brian Stableford
    THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION!It’s the new frontier of scientific development: genetic engineering, the crafting of species, and the self-alteration of man himself. Here are nine stories at the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution-'The Cure for Love,' 'Ashes and Tombstones,' 'Slumming in Voodooland,' 'The Color of Envy,' 'The Lady-Killer, as Observed from a Safe Distance,' 'Bu...
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    16,13 €

  • Firefly
    Brian Stableford
    THE EARTH IS DYING!In the far future Earth is dying. Society has reverted to a more primitive life, much like the Middle Ages. Two men, Matthew and his brother John, who calls himself 'Firefly,' set out to find the time traveller, the one person who can give purpose to their existence, the one individual who can still access past technology. The Firefly, he who lights his own w...
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    16,56 €

  • Firefly
    Brian Stableford
    THE EARTH IS DYING!In the far future Earth is dying. Society has reverted to a more primitive life, much like the Middle Ages. Two men, Matthew and his brother John, who calls himself 'Firefly,' set out to find the time traveller, the one person who can give purpose to their existence, the one individual who can still access past technology. The Firefly, he who lights his own w...
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    32,96 €

  • The New Faust at the Tragicomique
    Brian Stableford
    1899. The mood of fin-de-siècle Paris is one of the old order crumbling away, as ancient superstitions are replaced by scientific discoveries. The director of the Théâtre Tragicomique is intent on staging an updated version of Faust to usher in the new century -- and stave off bankruptcy. But some supernatural agency is determined to rewrite the play, striking dead every actor ...
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    23,41 €

  • News from the Moon
    Brian Stableford
    This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s 1768 opening tale, in which the hero communicates with the dead through a beam that anticipates a modern-day laser, to an 1887 story by Guy de Maupassant that speculates on Martian life. In between, we ...
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    25,20 €


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