Brian Stableford

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Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford a la remise du prix Actu SF aux 13emes Rencontres de l'Imaginaire de Sevres le 26 novembre 2016 - 02.jpg
Stableford in 2016
Born(1948-07-25)25 July 1948
Shipley, Yorkshire
Died24 February 2024(2024-02-24) (aged 75)
Swansea, Wales
Pen nameBrian M. Stableford, Brian Craig
OccupationAcademic, critic and writer
Alma mater University of York
GenreScience fiction

Brian Michael Stableford (25 July 1948 – 24 February 2024) was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. [1] His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but later ones dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. [2] He also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for some of his very early and late works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work. [1]

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Biography

Born in Shipley, Yorkshire, Stableford graduated with a degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 before going on to do postgraduate research in biology and later in sociology. In 1979 he received a PhD with a doctoral thesis on The Sociology of Science Fiction.

Until 1988, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. He was later a full-time writer and a part-time lecturer at several universities for classes concerning subjects such as creative writing. He was married twice, and had a son and a daughter by his first wife.

He wrote and contributed to numerous reference works, including the last print edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, wrote books and essays on the history of science fiction, and published more than 200 translations of novels of early French science fiction and fantasy. [3]

Brian Stableford died in Swansea, Wales, on 24 February 2024, at the age of 75. [1] [4]

Awards and honours

Works

Fiction

Series

Dies Irae
  1. The Days of Glory (Ace 1971)
  2. In the Kingdom of the Beasts (Ace 1971)
  3. Day of Wrath (Ace 1971)
Hooded Swan (a.k.a. Grainger)
  1. The Halcyon Drift (DAW November 1972 / J. M. Dent 1974); also available as an ebook, listed at 58,069 words
  2. Rhapsody in Black (DAW June 1973 / J. M. Dent 1975); also available as an ebook, listed at 51,279 words
  3. Promised Land (DAW February 1974 / J. M. Dent September 1975); also available as an ebook, listed at 49,848 words
  4. The Paradise Game (DAW June 1974 / J. M. Dent 1976); also available as an ebook, listed at 50,303 words
  5. The Fenris Device (DAW December 1974 / Pan 1978); also available as an ebook, listed at 49,782 words
  6. Swan Song (DAW May 1975 / Pan 1978)

All 6 novels are also available in a special omnibus volume: Swan Songs (Big Engine April 2002 / SFBC April 2003)

Daedalus Mission
  1. The Florians (DAW September 1976 / Hamlyn 1978)
  2. Critical Threshold (DAW February 1977 / Hamlyn 1979)
  3. Wildeblood's Empire (DAW October 1977 / Hamlyn 1979)
  4. The City of the Sun (DAW May 1978 / Hamlyn 1980)
  5. Balance of Power (DAW January 1979 / Hamlyn 1984)
  6. The Paradox of the Sets (DAW October 1979)
Asgard
  1. Asgard's Secret (Five Star October 2004); revised and expanded from 2 earlier versions:
    • Journey to the Center (DAW 1982)
    • Journey to the Centre (NEL October 1989)
  2. Asgard's Conquerors (Five Star December 2004); revised and expanded from an earlier version:
    • Invaders from the Centre (NEL January 1990)
  3. Asgard's Heart (Five Star February 2005); revised and expanded from an earlier version:
    • The Centre Cannot Hold (NEL June 1990)
Warhammer
  1. The Orfeo Trilogy:
    • Zaragoz (GW Books November 1989) (as by "Brian Craig")
    • Plague Daemon (GW Books April 1990) (as by "Brian Craig")
    • Storm Warriors (GW Books March 1991) (as by "Brian Craig")
  2. The Wine of Dreams (Black Library October 2000) (as by "Brian Craig")
  3. Warhammer 40000: Pawns of Chaos (Black Library April 2001) (as by "Brian Craig")
David Lydyard (Werewolves)
  1. The Werewolves of London (Simon & Schuster UK July 1990)
  2. The Angel of Pain (Simon & Schuster UK August 1991)
  3. The Carnival of Destruction (Pocket UK October 1994)
Dark Future
  1. Ghost Dancers (GW Books May 1991) (as by "Brian Craig")
Genesys
  1. Serpent's Blood (Legend May 1995)
  2. Salamander's Fire (Legend May 1996)
  3. Chimera's Cradle (Simon & Schuster UK March 1997)
Emortality

The first six volumes are considered the main sequence and were published out of series order; preferred reading order shown below is established from the author's introduction to volume 6, The Omega Expedition. This series is also related to, though not always entirely consistent with, the 8 collections and 5 novels subtitled "Tales of the Biotech Revolution", see below.

The term "emortality", intended to indicate near-immortality as opposed to absolute immortality, is acknowledged by Stableford (in the acknowledgments to volume 3, Dark Ararat) to have been coined by Alvin Silverstein in his 1979 book, Conquest of Death.

In the introduction to his 2007 collection, The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Stableford describes this series as "tracking the potential effects of possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global society. [It can be considered] a modified version of the future history mapped out in The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000–3000 (Sidgwick & Jackson 1985, written in collaboration with David Langford).

"The broad sweep of this future history envisages a large-scale economic and ecological collapse in the 21st-century brought about by global warming and other factors, followed by the emergence of a global society designed to accommodate human longevity (although that is not necessarily obvious in stories set in advance of the Crash)."

  1. The Cassandra Complex (Tor March 2001); revised and expanded from:
    • "The Magic Bullet" (nv), Interzone #29 1989
  2. Inherit the Earth (Tor September 1998); revised and expanded from:
    • "Inherit the Earth" (na), Analog July 1995
  3. Dark Ararat (Tor March 2002)
  4. Architects of Emortality (Tor September 1999); revised and expanded from:
    • Les Fleurs du Mal (na) Asimov's October 1994; also, see Collection 19, below
  5. The Fountains of Youth (Tor May 2000); revised and expanded from:
  6. The Omega Expedition (Tor December 2002); revised and expanded from:
    • "And He Not Busy Being Born..." (ss) Interzone #16 Summer 1986
  7. The Dragon Man: A Novel of the Future (Borgo Press 2009); a stand-alone "Young Adult" novel; also available as an e-book, listed at 65,401 words
Mnemosyne
  1. The Wayward Muse (Black Coat Press September 2005) ISBN   1-932983-45-7
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Secret Exhibition" (nv), Weird Tales Fall 1999; revised here, per the author's introduction
    • "The Incubus of the Rose" (ss), Weird Tales Summer 2000; revised here, per the author's introduction
    • "The Arms of Morpheus" (short novel) *
  2. Eurydice's Lament (Black Coat Press Nov. 2015)
  3. The Mirror of Dionysius (Black Coat Press Dec. 2016)
  4. The Pool of Mnemosyne (Black Coat Press April 2018)
The Empire of the Necromancers
  1. The Shadow of Frankenstein (Black Coat Press December 2008) ISBN   978-1-934543-63-4; a fix-up of the following:
  2. Frankenstein and the Vampire Countess (Black Coat Press November 2009) ISBN   978-1-934543-89-4; a fix-up of the following:
    • "The Return of Frankenstein" (na) Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 4: Lords of Terror, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2008
    • "The Vampire in Paris" (na) Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 5: The Vampires of Paris, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2009
  3. Frankenstein in London (Black Coat Press January 2011) ISBN   978-1-935558-78-1; a fix-up of the following:
    • "Where Zombies Armies Clash By Night" (na) Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 6: Grand Guignol, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2010
    • "The Necromancers of London" (na) Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 7: Femmes Fatales, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2011
Auguste Dupin
  1. "The Legacy of Erich Zann" (na), see Collections 21 & 23, below
  2. The Mad Trist / Valdemar's Daughter (Borgo Press October 2010); billed as "Wildside Double #10"
    • "Valdemar's Daughter: A Romance of Mesmerism" (na) *; also available as an ebook, listed at 30,405 words
    • "The Mad Trist: A Romance of Bibliomania" (na) *; also available as an ebook, listed at 32,787 words
  3. The Quintessence of August: A Romance of Possession (Borgo Press January 2011)
  4. The Cthulhu Encryption: A Romance of Piracy (Borgo Press March 2011)
  5. Journey to the Core of Creation: A Romance of Evolution (Borgo Press November 2011)
  6. Yesterday Never Dies: A Romance of Metempsychosis (Borgo Press January 2013)
Morgan's Fork
  1. Spirits of the Vasty Deep (Snuggly Books March 2018)
  2. The Insubstantial Pageant (Snuggly Books Dec. 2018)
  3. The Truths of Darkness (Snuggly Books Aug. 2019)
Paul Furneret
  1. The Painter of Spirits (Snuggly Books Oct. 2019)
  2. The Quiet Dead (Snuggly Books Oct. 2019)
  3. Living With the Dead (Snuggly Books Nov. 2019)

Other novels

  • Cradle of the Sun (Ace Double 1969 / Sidgwick & Jackson October 1969)
  • The Blind Worm (Ace Double 1970 / Sidgwick & Jackson March 1970)
  • To Challenge Chaos (DAW May 1972)
  • The Realms of Tartarus (DAW July 1977); a trilogy of short novels, the first of which is slightly revised from the following:
    • The Face of Heaven (Quartet Books February 1976)
  • Man in a Cage (John Day 1975); also available as an e-book, listed at 75,907 words; loosely based on the following story:
    • "Meeting at Eternity" (vi), Proteus #3 1966
  • The Mind-Riders (DAW May 1976 / Fontana 1977)
  • The Last Days of the Edge of the World (Hutchinson 1978 / Ace September 1985)
  • The Walking Shadow (Fontana 1979 / Carroll & Graf July 1985)
  • Optiman (DAW October 1980) / a.k.a. War Games (Pan UK July 1981)
  • The Castaways of Tanagar (DAW April 1981)
  • The Gates of Eden (DAW February 1983)
  • The Empire of Fear (Simon & Schuster UK October 1988); revised and expanded from:
    • "The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady" (nv), F&SF August 1988
  • Young Blood (Simon & Schuster UK September 1992); also available as an e-book, listed at 129,274 words
  • Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future, (Borgo Press 1994 / Cosmos Books May 2009); also available as an e-book, listed at 52,589 words; revised and expanded from:
    • "Beyond Time's Aegis" (nv), Science Fantasy November 1965 {with Craig A. Mackintosh, as by "Brian Craig"}
  • The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Mark V. Ziesing March 1996) – first published in somewhat abridged form in the following:
    • "The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires" (na), Interzone January 1995 (+1)
  • Year Zero (Sarob Press June 2000 / Five Star April 2003); a fix-up and expansion of the following 3 stories:
    • "When Molly Met Elvis" (ss), Interzone April 1997 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "Molly and the Angel" (ss), Interzone July 1999 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "Molly and the Men in Black" (nv), Interzone September 1999 (as by "Francis Amery")
  • The Eleventh Hour (Cosmos Books 2001); also available as an e-book, listed at 106,225 words
  • Curse of the Coral Bride (Immanion Press UK November 2004); loosely based on the following:
    • "The Light of Achernar" (nv), The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, ed. John Pelan, ShadowLands Press 1999
  • Kiss the Goat (Prime Books September 2005)
  • The Stones of Camelot (Black Coat Press March 2006) ISBN   1-932983-69-4; revised and expanded from:
    • "The Architect of Worlds" (na), Camelot Fantastic, ed. Lawrence Schimel & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW July 1998
  • Streaking: A Novel of Probability (PS Publishing June 2006 / Borgo Press September 2011)
  • The New Faust at the Tragicomique (Black Coat Press April 2007) ISBN   978-1-932983-91-3
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity (Black Coat Press January 2009) ISBN   978-1-934543-06-1; book version of the following linked novellas:
    • "The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires" (na), Interzone January 1995 (+1) / (text restored) Mark V. Ziesing 1996, see above
    • "The Black Blood of the Dead" (na), Interzone January 1997 (+1)
    • "The Gateway of Eternity" (na), Interzone January 1999 (+1)
  • The Moment of Truth, (Borgo Press March 2009); loosely based on the following:
    • "The Face of an Angel" (nv), Leviathan 3, ed. Forrest Aguirre & Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of Whimsy 2002
  • Prelude to Eternity: A Romance of the First Time Machine (Borgo Press August 2009)
  • The World Beyond: A Sequel to S. Fowler Wright's The World Below (Borgo Press September 2009)
  • Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations (Borgo Press September 2009); "A Comedy of Aliens"
  • Luscinia: A Romance of Nightingales and Roses (Borgo Press August 2010); also available as an e-book, listed at 62,555 words
  • The Plurality of Worlds: A 16th-century Space Opera (Borgo Press 2010); book version of the following linked novellas:
    • "The Ethership" (na), Asimov's August 2006 (as "The Plurality of Worlds")
    • "Doctor Muffet's Island" (na), Asimov's March 2007
    • "The Philosopher's Stone" (na), Asimov's July 2008
    • "The Great Armada" (na), Asimov's April/May 2009; text slightly restored here
  • Zombies Don't Cry: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press February 2011)
  • Xeno's Paradox: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press February 2011) (sequel to "Hidden Agendas", see Collection 9)
  • Nature's Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press September 2011); loosely based on the following:
    • "The Growth of the House of Usher" (nv), Interzone #24 1988
  • Echoes of Eternity (Chambrion Books Feb. 2016)
  • Vampires of Atlantis: A Love Story (Wildside Press April 2016); revised and expanded from the following:
    • "Sheena" (na), The Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC 2000 / Ace 2002
  • The Darkling Wood: A Scientific Fantasy (Wildside Press May 2016); revised and expanded from the following:
    • "Tenebrio" (nv), Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2000
  • The Devil in Detail (Wildside Press May 2016); loosely based on the following related stories:
    • "Chacun sa Goule" (biography & introduction), Dancing with the Dark, ed. Stephen Jones, Vista 1997
    • "The Haunted Bookshop" (nv), Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz UK 2000
    • "Beyond Bliss" (nv), The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions, Borgo Press Sep. 2007
  • Portals of Paradise (Wildside Press Nov. 2016)
  • Tangled Web of Time (Wildside Press Nov. 2016)
  • Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel (Wildside Press Aug. 2017); revised and expanded from the following:
    • "Further Beyond" (na), Black Wings III, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing Feb. 2014
  • The Death of Broceliande: A Tale of Faery (Wildside Press Feb. 2018); revised and expanded from the following:
    • "Chanterelle" (nv), Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 2000
  • The Alchemy of Blood (Wildside Press May 2018); revised and expanded from the following:
    • "The Path of Progress" (nv/na), The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Borgo Press Aug. 2009
  • The Tyranny of the Word (Black Coat Press Sep. 2019)
  • The Revelations of Time and Space (Snuggly Books June 2020)
  • The Elusive Shadows: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution (Snuggly Books Oct. 2020)
  • Meat on the Bone (Snuggly Books May 2021)

Chapbooks

  • The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand (Chrim Drumm 1985); collection of 2 original novelettes
  • Slumming in Voodooland (Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #26 July 1991); an original short story
  • The Innsmouth Heritage (Necronomicon Press March 1992); an original short story, inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's fiction [9]
  • Fables and Fantasies (Necronomicon Press October 1996); a collection:
    • "Three Versions of a Fable" (vi), Bats and Red Velvet #14 1995
    • "Nephthys" (ss), Peeping Tom #13 1994
    • "The Annual Conference of the Prophets of Atlantis" (vi), Reminiscon 40 Souvenir Programme 1992
    • "The Requiem Masque" (ss), Albedo One #3 1993
    • "Kalamada's Blessing" (vi), Scheherazade #8 1993
    • "Aphrodite and the Ring" (ss), Scheherazade #11 1995
    • "How the Dragons Yetzirah and Alziluth Lost the Knowledge of a Million Lifetimes" (vi) *; revised from Star Roots #1 1989
    • "The Shepherd's Daughter" (ss), Fear! September 1990
    • "The Sleeping Soul" (vi) *
    • "The Dream" (vi) *

Collections

Stableford's prodigious output of short fiction has allowed him to put together the following 22 collections with only one case of overlapping stories between them: "The Legacy of Erich Zann" in both Collections 20 & 22. Collections 1, 3, 6, 8, 13, 16, 19 & 21 are subtitled "Tales of the Biotech Revolution" and are related to, though not always entirely consistent with, his "Emortality" novels, see above.

  1. Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (Simon & Schuster UK February 1991); reprinted, sans the concluding article, as Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press 2012)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Bedside Conversations" (ss), Asimov's December 1990
    • "Sexual Chemistry" (nv), Interzone #20 1987 (a.k.a. "A Career in Sexual Chemistry")
    • "Cinderella's Sisters" (ss), The Gate #1 1989
    • "The Magic Bullet" (nv), Interzone #29 1989 (later expanded into The Cassandra Complex, see above)
    • "The Invertebrate Man" (nv), Interzone #39 1990
    • "The Furniture of Life's Ambition" (ss/nv), Zenith 2, ed. David S. Garnett, Orbit UK 1990
    • "The Fury That Hell Withheld" (ss/nv), Interzone #35 1990
    • "The Engineer and the Executioner" (ss), Amazing May 1975; revised
    • "The Growth of the House of Usher" (nv), Interzone #24 1988 (later expanded into Nature's Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution, see above)
    • "And He Not Busy Being Born..." (ss), Interzone #16 1986 (later expanded into The Omega Expedition, see above)
    • "Mankind in the Third Millennium" (article), Social Biology and Human Affairs v54 #1 1988; originally published in Japanese in Japan Research and Technology #249 1988
  2. Complications and Other Stories (Cosmos Books September 2003)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Complications" (nv), Amazing February 1992
    • "Alternate Worlds" (ss), Interzone #38 1990 (a.k.a. "Minimoments")
    • "The Flowers of the Forest" (ss), Amazing June 1993
    • "Layers of Meaning" (ss), Interzone #21 1987
    • "The Oedipus Effect" (nv), Temps Volume 1, ed. Neil Gaiman & Alex Stewart, Roc UK 1991
    • "Sortilege and Serendipity" (nv), Euro Temps, ed. Alex Stewart, Roc UK 1992; sequel to "The Oedipus Effect"
    • "Skinned Alive" (ss), Weekend's Fiction Extra September 1978
    • "Taken for a Ride" (ss), Science Fiction Age March 1994
    • "Virtuous Reality" (ss), Interzone January 1992
    • "Wildland" (ss), Arrows of Eros, ed. Alex Stewart, NEL 1989
  3. Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Five Star March 2004)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "What Can Chloë Want?" (ss), Asimov's March 1994
    • "The Invisible Worm" (nv), F&SF September 1991
    • "The Age of Innocence" (ss), Asimov's June 1995
    • "Snowball in Hell" (nv), Analog December 2000
    • "The Last Supper" (ss), Science Fiction Age March 2000
    • "The Facts of Life" (nv), Asimov's September 1993
    • "Hot Blood" (ss), Asimov's September 2002
    • "The House of Mourning" (ss), Off-Limits, ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's 1996
    • "Another Branch of the Family Tree" (nv), Asimov's July 1999
    • "The Milk of Human Kindness" (ss), Analog March 2001
    • "The Pipes of Pan" (nv), F&SF June 1997; read online
  4. Salomé and Other Decadent Fantasies (Cosmos Books May 2004)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Salomé" (ss), The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales, ed. Brian M. Stableford, Dedalus 1992
    • "O for a Fiery Gloom and Thee" (ss), Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperPrism 1998
    • "The Last Worshipper of Proteus" (ss), Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #2 1995
    • "The Evil That Men Do" (nv), Realms of Fantasy August 1995
    • "Ebony Eyes" (vi), Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "The Fisherman's Child" (ss), Penny Dreadful April 1998
    • "The Storyteller's Tale" (ss), The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger 1994
    • "The Unluckiest Thief" (ss), Interzone June 1992
    • "The Light of Achernar" (nv), The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, ed. John Pelan, ShadowLands Press 1999 (later formed loose basis for the novel Curse of the Coral Bride, see above)
    • "The Mandrake Garden" (ss), F&SF July 2000
    • "Chanterelle" (nv), Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 2000
  5. Sheena and Other Gothic Tales (Immanion Press May 2006), also available as an e-book, approximately 90,000 words
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Rose, Crowned with Thorns" (nv), White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books 1999
    • "Rent" (ss), Weird Tales Fall 1998
    • "Tenebrio" (nv), Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2000 (later expanded into the novel The Darkling Wood, see above)
    • "Behind the Wheel" (ss), Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan UK 1990
    • "Innocent Blood" (nv), Tales of the Wandering Jew, ed. Brian Stableford, Dedalus UK 1991
    • "Emptiness" (ss), Dreams of Decadence Spring 2001 / Infinity Plus Two, ed. Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing UK 2003; originally published in French in De Sang d'Encre, ed. Lea Silhol, 1999
    • "The Woman in the Mirror" (ss), The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales, ed. Brian Stableford, Dedalus UK 1992; (as by "Brian Craig")
    • "Regression" (nv), Asimov's April 2000
    • "Heartbreaker" (ss), Million #2 1991
    • "Sheena" (na), The Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC 2000 / Ace 2002; text restored, per the author's introduction (later expanded into the novel Vampires of Atlantis, see above)
  6. The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press June 2007)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Cure for Love" (nv), Asimov's mid-December 1993
    • "Ashes and Tombstones" (ss), Moon Shots, ed. Peter Crowther, DAW 1999
    • "Slumming in Voodooland" (nv), Pulphouse 1991
    • "The Color of Envy" (nv), Asimov's May 2001
    • "The Lady-Killer, as Observed from a Safe Distance" (nv), Asimov's August 2000
    • "Busy Dying" (nv), F&SF February 1994
    • "The Man Who Invented Good Taste" (ss), Interzone March 1991
    • "The Road to Hell" (nv), Interzone July 1995
    • "The Scream" (nv), Asimov's July 1994
  7. The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions (Borgo Press September 2007)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Seers" (ss), Gothic Ghosts, ed. Wendy Webb & Charles L. Grant, Tor 1997
    • "O Goat-Foot God of Arcady!" (ss), The Silver Web #15 2002
    • Chacun sa Goule (biography & introduction) Dancing with the Dark, ed. Stephen Jones, Vista 1997 (this and the following 2 stories later formed the loose basis for novel The Devil in Detail, see above)
    • "The Haunted Bookshop" (nv), Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz UK 2000
    • "Beyond Bliss" (nv) *; sequel to "The Haunted Bookshop"
    • "All You Inherit" (ss/nv), Taps and Sighs, ed. Peter Crowther, Subterranean Press 2000
    • "The Will" (ss), Dark Fantasies, ed. Chris Morgan, Legend UK 1989
    • "Danny's Inferno" (ss), Albedo One #32 2007
    • "Can't Live Without You" (ss/nv), Oceans of the Mind Winter 2001
    • "Community Service" (nv), Terra Incognita Spring 1997
    • "Denial" (ss) *
  8. The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press September 2007)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Tree of Life" (nv), Asimov's September 1994
    • "The Skin Trade" (ss), Asimov's November 1995
    • "Out of Touch" (nv), Asimov's October 1995
    • "Skin Deep" (nv), Amazing October 1991
    • "Carriers" (ss/nv), Asimov's July 1993
    • "Rogue Terminator" (nv), Asimov's April 2001
    • "Home Front" (ss), Science Fiction: The DAW 30th Anniversary, ed. Sheila E. Gilbert & Elizabeth R. Wollheim, DAW 2002
    • "Hidden Agendas" (nv/na), Asimov's September 1999 (sequel is Xeno's Paradox: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution, see above)
  9. An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels (Borgo Press March 2008)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "An Oasis of Horror" (ss), Infinity Plus September 2006; read online
    • "Justice" (ss), Far Point #1 1991
    • "The Copper Cauldron" (nv) *
    • "Nobody Else to Blame" (ss), Redsine #7 January 2002
    • "Heartbeat" (vi), Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
    • "Upon the Gallows-Tree" (ss), Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK 1992
    • "The Devil's Men" (ss), 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1995
    • "The Elixir of Youth" (nv), Weird Tales #341 August/September 2006; originally appeared in French in Asphodale #4 2003; read online
    • "The Lamia's Soliloquy" (vi), Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
    • "And the Hunter Home From the Hill" (ss/nv) *
    • "The Riddle of the Sphinx" (vi), Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
    • "My Mother, the Hag" (ss), Tales of the Round Table, ed. Mike Astley, Past Times 1997
    • "The Devil's Comedy" (nv), Phantoms of Venice, ed. David Sutton, Shadow 2001
    • "The Power of Prayer" (ss), Paradox #1 Spring 2003
  10. The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions (Borgo Press March 2008); also available as an e-book, listed at 67,533 words
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Gardens of Tantalus" (nv), Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Astley, Past Times 1996
    • "The Lost Romance" (ss), Chronicles of the Holy Grail, ed. Mike Astley, Carroll & Graf 1996
    • "Lucifer's Comet" (ss), Interzone September 1996 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "The Miracle of Zunderburg" (ss), Redsine #4 February 2001
    • "The Cult of Selene" (ss), Albedo One #14 1997
    • "Ice and Fire" (ss), Albedo One #18 1998
    • "Self-Sacrifice" (ss), Interzone December 1991 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "To the Bad" (ss), Weerde: Book 1, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992
    • "Riding the Tiger" (nv), Interzone February 1993 (book's introduction explains that this was originally written as a sequel to "To the Bad")
    • "Curiouser and Curiouser: A Kitchen Sink Drama, by Carol Lewis" (ss), Redsine #6 June 2001
    • "Quality Control" (nv), The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 1997
    • "Worse Than the Disease" (ss), Interzone November 1996
  11. The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels (Borgo Press March 2009)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Innsmouth Heritage" (ss), Necronomicon Press 1992
    • "The Picture" (vi), The Seventh Seal #2 2000 / Redsine #2 October 2000 / Here and Now Autumn 2004
    • "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" (ss), The Secret History of Vampires, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW 2007
    • "The Ugly Cygnet, by Hans Realist Andersen" (vi), The Seventh Seal #4 2001
    • "Art in the Blood" (ss/nv), Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. John Pelan & Michael Reeves, Del Rey 2003
    • "Mr Brimstone and Dr. Treacle" (vi), Naked Truth #6 1996 (as by "Francis Amery")
    • "Jehan Thun's Quest" (nv), The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures, ed. Mike Astley & Eric Brown, Robinson 2005
    • "The Immortals of Atlantis" (ss), disLocations, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press 2007
    • "Between the Chapters" (ss) *
    • "Three Versions of a Fable" (vi), Bats and Red Velvet #14 1995
    • "The Titan Unwrecked; or, Futility Revisited" (nv/na), Tales of the Shadowmen 1: The Modern Babylon, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2005
  12. Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales (Borgo Press March 2009)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Changelings" (ss), Interzone #85 July 1994
    • "Coming to Terms with the Great Plague" (ss), Omni Online December 1997 (a.k.a. "Coming to Grips with the Great Plague")
    • "Inside Out" (ss/nv), Asimov's March 1997
    • "After the Stone Age" (ss), BBC website March 2004; read original version online
    • "The Oracle" (nv), Asimov's May 1999
    • "The Tour" (ss), Science Fiction Age January 1998
    • "Victims" (ss), Science Fiction Age January 2000
    • "The Serpent" (ss), Interzone September 1995
    • "Tread Softly" (ss), Interzone March 2002
    • "Degrees of Separation (with John B. Ford)" (ss), The Evil Entwines, John B. Ford et al., Hardcastle 2002
  13. In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press March 2009)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "In the Flesh" (nv), Future Histories, ed. Stephen McClelland, Horizon House UK 1997; read online
    • "A Chip Off the Old Block" (nv), Postscripts Summer 2004
    • "Taking the Piss" (nv), Asimov's June 2002 / Future Crimes, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 2003
    • "Another Bad Day in Bedlam" (ss), Christmas Forever, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor 1993
    • "Dr. Prospero and the Snake Lady" (ss/nv), Millennium 3001, ed. Russell Davis & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 2006
    • "Casualty" (nv), Future Weapons of War, ed. Joe Haldeman & Martin H. Greenberg, Baen March 2007
    • "The Trial" (nv), Asimov's July 2007
    • "The Gift of the Magi" (ss), Interzone #122 August 1997
    • "The Incredible Whelk" (ss), Ludd's Mill #16/17 Winter 1980; revised
    • "The Piebald Plumber of Haemlin" (ss), Interzone April 1998
  14. The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies (Borgo Press July 2009); also available as an e-book, listed at 62,851 words
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Cosmic Perspective" (nv), The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand, Drumm 1985
    • "The Haunted Nursery" (vi), Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
    • "The Phantom of Teirbrun" (na) *
    • "Custer's Last Stand" (nv), The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand, Drumm 1985
    • "The Requiem Masque" (ss), Albedo One #3 1993
    • "Meat on the Bone" (nv) *
    • "Murphy's Grail" (ss), Redsine #4 February 2001
    • "Brief Encounter in the Smoking Area" (ss), The Interpreter's House #16 February 2001
    • "Fans from Hell" (ss), The Steel Caves December 2000
    • "The Annual Conference of the Prophets of Atlantis" (vi), Reminiscon 40 Souvenir Programme 1992
  15. The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales (Borgo Press August 2009)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Best of Both Worlds" (ss), Postscripts Summer 2008
    • "The Highway Code" (ss), We Think, Therefore, We Are, ed. Peter Crowther, DAW 2009
    • "Captain Fagan Died Alone" (ss), The DAW Science Fiction Reader, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW 1976 (falls into the milieu of novel To Challenge Chaos, see above)
    • "The Face of an Angel" (nv), Leviathan 3, ed. Forrest Aguirre & Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of Whimsy 2002 (later formed loose basis for novel The Moment of Truth, see above)
    • Verstehen (ss) ConFuse '91 program book (Kongressbok) 1991 / Odyssey September 1997; originally published in German in Pilger Dürch Raum und Zeit, ed. Wilfert, Goldmann 1982
    • "The Bad Seed" (nv), Interzone April 1994
    • "The Man Who Came Back" (vi), sf Impulse October 1966
    • "Appearances" (na) *
  16. The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press August 2009); also available as an e-book, listed at 69,250 words
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Following the Pharmers" (nv), Asimov's March 2008
    • "The Unkindness of Ravens" (ss), Interzone #90 December 1994
    • "The Great Chain of Being" (ss), Future Americas, ed. John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 2008
    • "Sleepwalker" (vi), Interzone #105 March 1996
    • "The Beauty Contest" (nv) *
    • "Burned Out" (nv), Interzone #70 April 1993
    • "Inherit the Earth" (na), Analog July 1995 (later expanded into Inherit the Earth, see above)
  17. Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica (Borgo Press August 2009); also available as an e-book, listed at 66,814 words
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "Beyond the Colors of Darkness" (ss) *
    • "An Offer of Oblivion" (ss), Amazing October 1974; revised
    • "Enlightenment" (nv) *
    • "The Dragons Alziluth and Yetzirah" (vi), Fables and Fantasies, Necronomicon Press 1996 (revised from Star Roots #1 1989; a.k.a. "How the Dragons Alziluth and Yetzirah Lost the Knowledge of a Million Lifetimes")
    • "A Saint's Progress" (ss) *
    • Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (ss) Violent Spectres #2 1995
    • "Black Nectar" (nv) *
    • "Nephthys" (ss), Peeping Tom #13 1994
    • "Plastic Man" (vi) *; originally appeared in Swedish in Norcon 99 program book, 1999
    • "Aphrodite and the Ring" (ss), Scheherazade #11 1995 (a.k.a. "Aphrodite's Ring")
    • Danse Macabre (na) *
  18. The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas (Borgo Press August 2009); pre-publication catalogs listed the title of this collection as The Path of Progress and Other Black Melodramas
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Path of Progress" (nv/na) *
    • "Kalamada's Blessing" (vi), Scheherazade #8 1993
    • "The Shepherd's Daughter" (ss), Fear! September 1990
    • "Shadows of the Past" (nv) *
    • "Reconstruction" (vi), Cold Cuts II, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Alun Books 1994
    • "The Return of the Djinn" (na) *
  19. Le Fleurs du Mal / The Undead (Borgo Press August 2010); billed as "Wildside Double #4"
    • Author's Note [to Les Fleurs du Mal] (in) *
    • "Le Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution" (na), Asimov's October 1994; text corrected here, per the author's introduction: "...I eventually decided to finish the novel version of Les Fleurs du Mal anyway, and completed it in 1992. I wrote the story to what seemed its natural length (68,000 words) but could not sell it...I decided to cut the text drastically and attempt to sell an abridged version of the story to one or other of the sf magazines as a novella. The present text is the 29,000-word result of that cut, although Gardner Dozois—who bought it for publication in the October 1994 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction—insisted on cutting out the gratuitous car chase, thus reducing the published version to 27,000 words."; later expanded into the novel Architects of Emortality, see above
    • "The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution" (short novel) *; also available as an ebook, listed at 44,110 words
  20. The Womb of Time (Perilous Press January 2011)
    • "The Womb of Time" (short novel) *
    • "The Legacy of Erich Zann" (na) *; first story in the Auguste Dupin series, see above
  21. The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution (Borgo Press March 2012)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Golden Fleece" (na) *
    • "Some Like It Hot" (nv), Asimov's December 2009
    • "Alfonso the Wise" (ss), Interzone #105 March 1996 Pas by "Frances Amery")
    • "Next to Godliness" (ss/nv), Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press March 2008; text restored
    • "Mortimer Gray's History of Death" (na), Asimov's April 1995 (later expanded into The Fountains of Youth, see above)
  22. The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Borgo Press April 2012)
    • Introduction (in) *
    • "The Legacy of Erich Zann" (na), The Womb of Time, Perilous Press January 2011; first story in the Auguste Dupin series, see above
    • "The Truth about Pickman" (ss), Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing April 2010
    • "The Holocaust of Ecstasy" (ss), Cthulhu's Reign, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW April 2010
    • "The Seeds from the Mountains of Madness" (na) *

Uncollected short fiction

As translator (predominantly French into English)

As editor

Anthology series

  • Decadence
    • 1 The Daedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins) (1990)
    • 2 The Second Daedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast (1992)

Anthologies

  • Tales of the Wandering Jew (1991)
  • The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century (1991)
  • The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales (1992)
  • Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction, Dover (2017)

Nonfiction

References

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  2. ↑ DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction. Penguin Putnam DAW. 2003. ISBN   0756401372.
  3. ↑ "BSFA - Brian Stableford". www.bsfa.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Addio a Brian Stableford, autore e traduttore". Fantascienza. 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  5. ↑ Langford, David (28 April 2022). "Eaton Award". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "1995 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Nicholls, Peter; Langford, David (1 October 2022). "Pilgrim Award". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  8. ↑ "And The Winners Are..." Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. 18 June 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. ↑ Neil Barron, What do I read next?, 2001 : a reader's guide to current genre fiction. Detroit : Gale Group, 2001. ISBN   0787633917 (p.247)
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