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  • Halcyon Drift

    Hooded Swan, Book 1

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series Book 1 - Hooded Swan
    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 up an alien ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wildeblood's Empire

    Daedalus Mission, Book Three

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series Book 3 - The Daedalus Mission
    hey 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 founded it, the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asgard's Secret: The Asgard Trilogy, Book One

    by 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 a terrible ... Read more

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  • The City of the Sun

    Daedalus Mission, Book Four

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series Book 4 - The Daedalus Mission
    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 visitors from Earth ... Read more

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  • The Paradox of the Sets

    Daedalus Mission, Book Six

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series Book 6 - Daedalus Mission
    The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship 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 the mystery--a ... Read more

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  • Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Acclaimed author and scholar Brian Stableford turns his penetrating mind to matters of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in this collection of essays. He covers such diverse topics as: SLAVES OF THE DEATH SPIDERS: Colin Wilson and Existentialist Science FictionIS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?: The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleA FEW MORE CROCODILE TEARS?: Gwyneth JonesTHE ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Balance of Power

    Daedalus Mission, Book Five

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Series Book 5 - Daedalus Mission
    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 Daedalus have hitched ... Read more

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  • Tangled Web of Time

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Mark and Jimmy are “astrological twins” born on the same day, but they have completely opposed personalities. Even so, when they met at university in the 1980s they formed a close friendship, which even survived a crisis point when the reckless Jimmy, having persuaded the sober Mark to sit with him and look after him while he experiments with LSD, accidentally slashed his friend’s face with a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Salome and other Decadent Fantasies

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Decadent literature is intrinsically and proudly a literature of moral challenge; it is sceptical, cynical, and satirical. It recognizes that everyday morality does not work either in practical or in psychological terms, and is therefore a sham, but that ideal morality is -- not necessarily unfortunately -- unattainable. This volume collects the best of Brian Stableford's decadent work, including: ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

    by 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 connection to Zann, must ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Architects of Emortality

    by Brian Stableford ...
    Brian Stableford launched an ambitious future history series with Inherit the Earth, to widespread praise. "Stableford has created in this novel a totally believable world, and wrapped it around a series of mysterious events, surprise revelations, double crosses, confused motivations, rumors, lies, plots, and counterplots. . . . Tightly controlled and suspenseful throughout," said Science Fiction ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future

    by Brian Stableford ...
    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 way, seeks the age of Man's greatness, ... Read more

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