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The Plurality of Worlds: Available Copies

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The Plurality of Worlds A SixteenthCentury Space Opera
    by Stableford, Brian

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    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2009)


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The Plurality of Worlds: A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera
    by Brian Stableford

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    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2018)


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The Plurality of Worlds: A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera
    by Brian Stableford

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    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2018)


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The Plurality of Worlds: A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera
    by Stableford, Brian

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    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press 2009-09 (2009)


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The Plurality of Worlds A SixteenthCentury Space Opera
    by Stableford, Brian

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    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2009)


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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

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    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: Lucky's Textbooks (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds : The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds : The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

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    Publisher: Black Coat Press (2016)


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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: Ria Christie Collections (Uxbridge, United Kingdom)
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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics 2016-03 (2016)


    Seller: Chiron Media (Wallingford, United Kingdom)
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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2023)


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The Plurality of Worlds : A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera
    by Brian Stableford

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2018)


    Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany)
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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the insect-like inhabitants of the moon. But the empire is under attack from enemies both without and within--and so is the planet Earth!--and the five men must find a way to thwart the Selenites and save our world from an insect tyranny. Grand space opera in the unique Stablefordian style!

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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: PBShop.store UK (Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom)
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The Plurality of Worlds
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781434457295
    Publisher: Borgo Press (2009)


    Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany)
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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextIn an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the insect-like inhabitants of th.

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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds : The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Brian Stableford

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany)
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    Book Price: $79.40
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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance with different foci of interest and narrative methods, until the importation of the American label of 'science fiction' initiated a process of fusion that was still not complete even at the end of the twentieth century. Like its closest English language analogue, 'scientific romance,' the phrase roman scientifique first made its appearance in the French language in the latter half of the eighteenth century, when it was initially used to refer to ideas in science that were thought to be, or turned out be, chimerical scholarly fantasies. The history outlined here chronicles the evolution and development of scientifically-influenced fiction in France from its seventeenth-century foundation-stones to the late 1930s, including interplanetary fantasies, futuristic fantasies, and attempts to produce a reasoned account of such evolution, paying heed to the differences between it and the parallel processes going on in Britain and America. The Plurality of the imaginary Worlds reviews over 300 works from 1657 to 1939 and illustrated with nearly 200 cover reproductions. Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 70 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He has also translated many of the works reviewed herein for Black Coat Press.

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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany)
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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnBritish, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance with different foci of i.

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The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique
    by Stableford, Brian

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781612275031
    Publisher: Hollywood Comics (2016)


    Seller: Mispah books (Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom)
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