Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was the pseudonym of Paul Alexandre Martin Duval. He was one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement and the author of numerous novels, volumes of poetry and short stories. At one point he was probably the highest paid journalist in France. Though mostly remembered today for his famous duel with Marcel Proust, he might be seen as the true chronicler of the fin-de-siècle.
101 Ebooks by Brian Stableford
Stephen King & Greg Bear: Grave Predictions
‘This is a book of stories intended to describe that hand of mortal destruction in 16 utterly different, yet all apocalyptically stunning ways!’ — Harlan Ellison, from the Introduction.
These …
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Brian Stableford: Scientific Romance
Before the term "science fiction" was adopted in the 1920s, there were "scientific romances, " tales of amazing journeys beyond the limits of the known world. Jules Verne’s …
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Brian Stableford: Critical Threshold
They call them the “rat-catchers.” They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost …
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Brian Stableford: The Dedalus Book of Decadence Moral Ruins
Seminal study of decadence in Europe and America with texts. Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Octave Mirbeau: Torture Garden
Clara goes to China where she experiences the delights of the torture garden. Baroque sadism mioxed up with political satire. ‘A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of …
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Brian Stableford: The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
Beginning in 1804 with Nathan Drake's 'Henry Fitzowen', The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy traces the development of the genre through the stories and poems of Coleridge, Keats, …
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Jean Lorrain: Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The dr …
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William H. Hodgson: La Maison au bord du Monde
Un roman fantastique s’épanouissant dans un décor irlandais
‘Rares sont les écrivains qui peuvent égaler Hodgson lorsqu’il ébauche le dessein des forces sans nom et de monstrueuses entités toutes …
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William H. Hodgson: Le Pays de la nuit
Situé dans le futur — à des millions d’années de notre présent —, ce roman décrit la fin des temps, sur une Terre désolée à peine éclairée par un soleil agonisant.
Deux grandes pyramides de métal …
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Henry Rider Haggard: Les Mines du roi Salomon
Suivez les aventures d’Allan Quatermain, l’Indiana Jones du XIXe siècle
Dans les années 1880, trois Anglais s’aventurent dans des contrées inconnues de l’Afrique du Sud, à la recherche de Neville …
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Brian Stableford: Science Fact and Science Fiction
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future …
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Brian Stableford: Science Fact and Science Fiction
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future …
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Brian Stableford: Streaking
For hundreds of years the male members of the Kilcannon family have considered themselves to be the beneficiaries of distortions in the statistical distribution of chance, associating their most …
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Brian Stableford: Salome and other Decadent Fantasies
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Journey to the Core of Creation
It is 1847, and Paris is edging closer to its next revolution, but something is also astir inside Mont Dragon in the Ardeche. This is a place of annual pilgrimage for a band of enigmatic nomads, and …
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Brian Stableford: Critical Threshold
They call them the "rat-catchers." They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, …
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Brian Stableford: Nature’s Shift
Peter Bell the Third, accidentally named from the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is called upon to renew his old friendship with Rowland Usher, who was deliberately named after the …
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Jules Rengade: Voyage Beneath the Waves
VOYAGE BENEATH THE WAVES was published two years prior to Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne, when he became aware of Jules Rengade’s serial version, felt obliged to write the …
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Brian Stableford: Plurality of Worlds
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
This collection brings together the ten earliest stories in Brian Stableford’s series of "Tales of the Biotech Revolution, " all written in the 1980s, except for one anomalous example from …
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Brian Stableford: Walking Shadow
Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the …
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Brian Stableford: Glimpse of Infinity
The masters of the Euchronian Millennium are panicking. The fabric of their ideal society on the platform built over the Earth has been ripped, and the order that they hold so precious seems to be …
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Brian Stableford: Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations
When Steve, a hapless school teacher, consults a hypnotherapist to solve his personal problems, he "remembers" being abducted by aliens. When he starts attending sessions of Alien Abductees …
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Brian Stableford: Cthulhu Encryption
The Shoggoths attack: "They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again…. They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable–but whether …
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Leon Daudet: Bacchantes
In this classic science fiction novel, Romain Segetan, a brilliant scientist whose creativity is intimately linked to his erotic experience, particularly in its visual dimension, is struggling to …
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Leon Daudet: Napus
In Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, an old man suddenly vanishes without a trace: a new plague has reached France, and will soon grow to terrible proportions. The event is witnessed by a …
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Petrus Borel the Lycanthrope: Champavert
Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French "contes cruels, " and the book still remains among the cruellest of them all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short …
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Andre Beaunier: Man Who Lost Himself
THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF tells the story of Michel Bedee, a brilliant scientist whose work on the new element that he’s discovered–sirium–has alienated him from his mother, his sister, and his …
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G. D. Falksen & Arthur O. Friel: Steampunk MEGAPACK(R)
The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras–past, present, and future! Included are:MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA’S, by Jay Lake THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR …
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Brian Stableford: Face of Heaven
After laboring for thousands of years, the people of Earth, fleeing ecological disaster, have built a new, clean, stable world on a worldwide platform erected over the entire land surface of the …
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Brian Stableford: War Games
Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully militarized, …
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Brian Stableford: Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels
Eleven new tales of fantasy and horror based upon the classic originals by H. P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H. Rider …
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Brian Stableford: Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can …
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Brian Stableford: Mind-Riders
First published in 1976, "The Mind-Riders" features a remarkable anticipation of virtual reality gaming, in which the revised sport of boxing pits physically identical virtual fighters …
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Brian Stableford: Asgard’s Secret: Asgard 1
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Asgard’s Conquerors: Asgard 2
Asgard’s not an easy world to get away from. Mike Rousseau only wants to take a vacation in his home system, but he’s back before he has time to draw breath, and he’s been drafted into the Space …
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Brian Stableford: Asgard’s Heart: Asgard 3
The acclaimed science fiction author Brian M. Stableford returns with the final book in his trilogy about a planet that contains thousands of worlds inside it – and the one man who will do anything …
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Brian Stableford: Florians: Daedalus Mission 1
They call them the "rat-catchers." They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, …
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Brian Stableford: Critical Threshold: Daedalus Mission 2
They call them the "rat-catchers." They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, …
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Brian Stableford: Balance of Power: Daedalus Mission 5
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Paradox of the Sets: Daedalus Mission 6
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Halcyon Drift: Hooded Swan 1
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Rhapsody in Black: Hooded Swan 2
In the culture of the galaxy, the Star-Pilots of the starships that link the cosmos together have become the great heroes of the day. Grainger, who has become a legend in his own lifetime, is drafted …
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Brian Stableford: Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales
This collection brings together the ten earliest stories in Brian Stableford’s series of "Tales of the Biotech Revolution, " all written in the 1980s, except for one anomalous example from …
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Brian Stableford: Face of Heaven
After laboring for thousands of years, the people of Earth, fleeing ecological disaster, have built a new, clean, stable world on a worldwide platform erected over the entire land surface of the …
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Brian Stableford: Gates of Eden
Before the hyper-space vessels could go from planet to planet, stations had to be set up. And that meant manned spaceships cut off from Earth for decades.The explorer vessel Ariadne had gone toward …
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Brian Stableford: Mind-Riders
First published in 1976, "The Mind-Riders" features a remarkable anticipation of virtual reality gaming, in which the revised sport of boxing pits physically identical virtual fighters …
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€3.49
Brian Stableford: Walking Shadow
Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the …
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€3.49
Brian Stableford: War Games
Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully militarized, …
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A.R. Morlan & Kathryn Ptacek: Monster MEGAPACK(R): 22 Modern & Classic Tales of Monsters
Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of …
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Brian Stableford: Asgard’s Conquerors
Asgard’s not an easy world to get away from. Mike Rousseau only wants to take a vacation in his home system, but he’s back before he has time to draw breath, and he’s been drafted into the Space …
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Brian Stableford: Asgard’s Heart
The gods of Asgard are in deep trouble. If they can’t defeat their internal enemies, the starlet in the macroworld’s core will blow up, killing trillions humanoids in its various layers. Only one man …
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Brian Stableford: Sheena and Other Gothic Tales
Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn’t know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire …
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Brian Stableford: Designer Genes
The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent …
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Brian Stableford: Vampires of Atlantis
Kirk Markham returns to his home town of Leeds in 1999 after three years at university "down south." In order to support himself while he tries to find a respectable career, he gets a job …
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Brian Stableford: Devil in Detail
At last, the true story can finally be told of my participation in the investigation of a haunted bookshop in Barry, South Wales, organized by my good friend and fellow science fiction writer …
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Brian Stableford: Darkling Wood
Long-undisturbed Tenebrion Wood, identified in the Domesday Book and named by the Romans after a kind of "night-sprit, " stands in the way of a road development. Environmentalist Steve …
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Gaston Danville: Gaston Danville MEGAPACK(R): Weird Tales and Contes Cruels
In addition to being a brilliant author, Brian Stableford is an accomplished editor and translator. Here he has selected and translated his choice of the 18 best weird tales and contes cruels by …
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Brian Stableford: Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
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 …
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Frederic Boutet: Claude Mercoeur’s Reflection and Other Strange Stories
This volume is the third of a set of three showcasing the work of Frederic Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories and The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other …
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Brian Stableford: Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas
Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: "The Path of Progess, " "Kalamada’s Blessing, " "The …
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Gaston Danville: Anatomy of Love and Murder: Psychoanalytical Fantasies
Although Gaston Danville was one of the earliest contributors to the French magazine, Mercure de France, considered a voice for the symbolist movement, he regarded himself as one of a new generation …
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Brian Stableford: Moment of Truth: A Novel of the Future
A plastic surgeon of the future is charged with re-creating the face of Adam, the first man. Is he just a pawn in a scheme to defraud a billionaire, or does he seriously intend to fulfill his task. …
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Frederic Boutet: Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories
This volume is the second of a set of three showcasing the work of Frederic Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories, and Claude Mercoeur’s Reflection and …
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Brian Stableford: Gates of Eden
Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at …
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Brian Stableford: Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Yesterday Never Dies
At an 1847 revival of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable, the ghost of Blaise Thibodeaux, the author of La Resonance du temps, appears in one of the boxes, just as Thibodeaux had predicted to Auguste …
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Brian Stableford: Dragon Man
300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what …
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Brian Stableford: Prelude to Eternity
In an alternate England in which Cromwell’s revolution succeeded, Michael Laurel attends a 19th-century party to witness the demonstration of the first time machine. But Michael comes to realize that …
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Brian Stableford: Vision of Hell
The people of the Euchronian Millennium had been reminded of the Underworld that existed beneath the platform on which they had constructed their better, cleaner, safer world–leaving the original …
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Achmed Abdullah & John Gregory Betancourt: Wildside Book of Fantasy
The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. …
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Brian Stableford: The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal …
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Brian Stableford: An Oasis of Horror
Long after he was dead, French poet Charles Baudelaire inspired a Decadent Movement in France, which became definitive of fin de siecle sensibility. One of the historical and influential links betwee …
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Brian Stableford: Promised Land: Hooded Swan 3
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like new Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend …
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Brian Stableford: Wildeblood’s Empire: Daedalus Mission 3
The colony was successful. That was evident as soon as the recontact ship Daedalus had landed. It was successful, prosperous, and everything was due to the work and genius of J. Wildeblood, …
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Brian Stableford: City of the Sun: Daedalus Mission 4
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 …
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Brian Stableford: Paradise Game: Hooded Swan 4
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a …
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Brian Stableford: Fenris Device: Hooded Swan 5
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots that link the cosmos are the great heroes of the day, and …
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Brian Stableford: Swan Song: Hooded Swan 6
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds such as New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots have become the great heroes of the day. Grainger has …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: John Carter of Mars: Vol. One
“[Edgar Rice Burroughs created] an entire world with a history and variety of cultures on a scale that would not be repeated until J. R. R. Tolkien created Middle-earth.’
—Mike Ashley
Int …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: John Carter of Mars
Interplanetary perils and swashbuckling adventures on the Red Planet await you in
John Carter of Mars, a thrilling series of science fantasy novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Writte …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: John Carter of Mars (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, into a well-to-do family,
Edgar Rice Burroughs was given an aristocratic private education. But though he tried his hand at several …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
In this epic series, a British royal couple’s son is orphaned on the coast of Africa, where he is raised by the great apes of the jungle. Able to walk between two worlds, he becomes not jus …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
In this epic series, a British royal couples son is orphaned on the coast of Africa, where he is raised by the great apes of the jungle. Able to walk between two worlds, he becomes not ju …
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