Curse of the Coral Bride

Curse of the Coral Bride
Author: Brian M. Stableford
Publisher: Immanion Press/Magalithica Books
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature

Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434403386

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.

The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions

The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434401529

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 for us to feel guilt, shame, and remorse. Included are: "Seer," "O Goat-Foot God of Arcady!," "Chacun sa goule," "The Haunted Bookshop," "Beyond Bliss," "All You Inherit," "The Will," "Danny's Inferno," "Can't Live Without You," "Community Service," and "Denial." These horror and fantasy tales have never before been collected into book form.

In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution

In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434403327

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.

The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales

The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434443345

In the longest story in this collection, an eleven-year-old girl has a strange adventure in an overgrown garden, and probably saves the world from a fate worse than any conventional apocalypse. Her parents would undoubtedly think that she’s been dreaming if she attempted to explain what had happened, but that’s what parents do, because they think it’s what they ought to do. The other stories all describe similarly equivocal victories, which sometimes don’t appear to the other characters in the stories to be victories at all—but they are: every last one of them. You just have to look at them the right way—and it really is worth doing that? After all, who among us really wants to get stuck in the way things want to seem? Eight scintillating stories of science fiction by a master of the genre!

The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions

The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 143440210X

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 historical mysteries, fantasies, and science fiction. The tales in this collection include: "The Gardens of Tantalus," "The Lost Romance," "Lucifer's Comet," "The Miracle of Zunderburg," "The Cult of Selene," "Ice and Fire," "Self-Sacrifice," "To the Bad," "Riding the Tiger," "Curiouser and Curiouser: A Kitchen Sink Drama, by Carol Lewis," "Quality Control," and "Worse Than the Disease." Never before collected into book form.

The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution

The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434401146

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," "Busy Dying," "The Man Who Invented Good Taste," "The Road to Hell," and "The Scream"-crafted by a talented writer who's conducted biological research himself. These tales are filled with memorable characters, unforgettable situations, and bold new ideas. Never before collected in book form! BRIAN STABLEFORD has written and edited over fifty volumes of science fiction, horror, fantasy, literary criticism, and reference, among others, many of them being published by the Borgo Press imprint of Wildside Press. He lives and works in Reading, England.

Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction

Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434457435

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.