Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by
Brian Stableford

A Few Words About Brian Stableford

Regrettably, I have not yet had an opportunity to write an essay on this author, but the "Other Resources" section below will lead you to some information about the "Notable Books" listed farther down this page.

Other Brian Stableford Resources

All in all, it is disappointing to see how little, at least relatively, there is on the web about such a prolific author of thoroughly literate books. The chief resource is the Brian Stableford Web Site, which has brief descriptions (though not critical analyses) of each of Stableford's works within its purview--but there's the rub, for it is now (apparently, anyway) nearly three years since it was last updated in any way, so there are newer works not catalogued there.

Beyond that site, there seems no general commentary on the man or the oeuvre. The seeker will find only one-off reviews of individual books, which is not a great help considering the length of the roll call. There are also a couple of the inevitable interviews--at Strange Horizons by Cheryl Morgan and at Infinity plus by Barbara Godwin, and an old one from ConFuse 91 (where Stableford was the guest of honor) by Tommy Persson--which are helpful; but one wishes for more in the light of Stableford's stature. (The brief appreciation of Stableford by David Langford of The Ansible is pleasant but not critically enlightening.)

A few of the individual reviews seemed to me worth citing as giving some general insights, however brief, into the character of Stableford's work. Among those are Rick Kleffel's Agony Column review of The Hunger & Ecstasy of Vampires; Serpent's Blood reviewed at Albedo; and The New Faust at the Tragicomique reviewed at The Green Man Review. Also, the SF Site has several reviews of interest and, helpfully, a portal page for the lot (which page is in itself useful).

Though not direct resources for Stableford's fiction, there are available on line some non-fiction works by Stableford--essays, articles, and reviews of others' fiction--which reveal something of the man and his style; as samples, one could examine "The Third Generation of Genre Science Fiction" at Science Fiction Studies; his review of Barrington Bayley's Soul of the Robot; and his appreciation of Ian McDonald.

Notable Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by Brian Stableford ***

• Cradle of the Sun
• The Blind Worm
  
  
• The Dies Irae Trilogy:
  
  • The Days of Glory
  • In the Kingdom of the Beasts
  • Day of Wrath
  
  
• To Challenge Chaos
  
  
• The "Hooded Swan" Sextet:
  
  • Halcyon Drift
  • Rhapsody in Black
  • Promised Land
  • The Paradise Game
  • The Fenris Device
  • Swan Song
  
  
• The Realms of Tartarus
  (first pubished as three separate volumes)
• Man in a Cage
• # The Mind Riders
  
  
• The "Daedalus" Sextet:
  
  • The Florians
  • Critical Threshold
  • Wildeblood's Empire
  • The City of the Sun
  • Balance of Power
  • The Paradox of the Sets
  
  
• The Last Days of the Edge of the World
• # The Walking Shadow
• Optiman
  
  
• The Asgard Series:
  
  • # Asgard's Secret
    This is a major revision of an earlier novel titled Journey to the Centre
  • # Asgard's Conquerors
    (originally titled Invaders from the Centre--possibly revised)
  • # Asgard's Heart
    (originally titled The Centre Cannot Hold--possibly revised)
  
  
• The Gates of Eden
• # The Empire of Fear
• # Sexual Chemistry *
• # Slumming in Voodooland *
  
  
• The Lydyard Series:
  
  • The Werewolves of London
  • The Angel of Pain
  • The Carnival of Destruction
  
  
• # Young Blood
• # Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
  
  
• Genesys:
  
  • # Serpent's Blood
  • # Salamander's Fire
  • # Chimera's Cradle
  
  
• # The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
• # Fables and Fantasies *
  
  
• The Emortality Series:
  (These were published out of their intended reading order; that intended order is what is shown below.)
  
  
  • The Cassandra Complex
  • Inherit the Earth
  • Architects of Emortality
  • Fountains of Youth
  • Dark Ararat
  • The Omega Expedition
  
  
• Year Zero
• The Eleventh Hour
• Complications and Other Stories *
  
  
• The Doomed Earth Series:
  (So far, only the first novel of this projected series has been written.)
  
  • # Curse of the Coral Bride
  
  
• Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies *
• # Kiss the Goat
• # The Wayward Muse *
• # The Stones of Camelot
• # Streaking
• # Sheena and Other Gothic Tales
• # The New Faust at the Tragicomique
• # The Gateway of Eternity [forthcoming]
  (sequel to The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires--an early version was published in 1999 in magazine form)

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