Stableford Brian Stableford med egna ord (från cirriculum vitae) 0 Born 25 July 1948 in Shipley, Yorks. Attended Manchester Grammar School 1959-66. From 1966--69 read for B.A, in Biology at University of York (graduated with first class honours). From 1969--72 did postgraduate research in Biology at the University of York, studying the population dynamics of the flour-beetle _Tribolium_confusum_ and developing techniques for the computer modelling of animal population dynamics. From 1972--75 did postgraduate research in Sociology at the University of York, studying the sociology of literature; a thesis on "The Sociology of Science Fiction" was presented in 1978 and the degree of D. Phil. conferred in 1979. From Jan--Dec 1976 and from Sept 1977--Dec 1983 lectured in the Sociology Department of the University of Reading, mainly in the arees of the philosopy of social science and the sociology of literature and the mass media. Other teaching has included an M.A. course on the sociology of technology, and extra-mural courses on "Science Fiction", "Fantasy Literature" and "Reading and Writing Science Fiction". Now full-time freelance writer. Stablefords romaner CRADLE OF THE SUN (Ace 1969; Sidgwick & Jackson 1969; Sphere 197) THE BLIND WORM (Ace 1970; Sidgwick & Jackson 1970; tysk övers. 1982) DIES IRAE-trilogin: THE DAYS OF GLORY (Ace 1971; Five-Star 1974) IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BEASTS (Ace 1971; Quartet 1974) DAYS OF WRATH (Ace 1971; Quartet 1974) TO CHALLENGE CHAOS (DAW 1972) HOODED SWAN-serien (omnibusutgåva i tysk övers. 1986): HALCYON DRIFT (DAW 1972; Dent 1974; Pan 1976; italiensk övers. 1974; fransk övers. 1975; tysk övers. 1978; japansk övers. 1980; hebreisk övers. 1987) RAPSODY IN BLACK (DAW 1973; Dent 1975; Pan 1976; fransk övers. 1975; tysk övers. 1978; japansk övers. 1980) PROMISED LAND (DAW 1974; Dent 1975; Pan 1978; frank övers. 1977; tysk övers. 1978; japansk övers. 1981) THE PARADISE GAME (DAW 1974; Dent 1977; Pan 1978; fransk övers. 1980; tysk övers. 1979; japanska övers. 1982) THE FENRIS DEVICE (DAW 1974; Pan 1978; fransk övers. 1980; tysk övers. 1980; japansk övers. 1982) SWAN SONG (DAW 1975; Pan 1978; fransk övers. 1981; tysk övers. 1980; japansk övers. 1982) REALMS OF TARTARUS (DAW 1977; fransk övers. 1981); separat utgivning av de individuella delarna: THE FACE OF HEAVEN (Quartet 1976; tysk övers. 1978; japansk övers. 1979) A VISION OF HELL (tysk övers. 1979; japansk övers. 1979) A GLIMPSE OF INFINITY (tysk övers. 1979; japansk övers. 1980) MAN IN A CAGE (John Day 1976; tysk övers. 1977) THE MIND-RIDERS (DAW 1976; Fontana 1977) DAEDALUS-serien: THE FLORIANS (DAW 1976; Hamlyn 1978; tysk övers. 1979; fransk övers. 1985) CRITICAL THRESHOLD (DAW 1977; Hamlyn 1979; tysk övers. 1978; fransk övers. 1986) WILDEBLOOD'S EMPIRE (DAW 1977; Hamlyn 1979; tysk övers. 1979; fransk övers. 1986) THE CIYT OF THE SUN (DAW 1978; Hamlyn 1979; tysk övers. 1979) BALANCE OF POWER (DAW 1979; Hamlyn 1984; tysk övers. 1980) THE PARADOX OF THE SETS (DAW 1979; tysk övers. 1980) THE LAST DAYS OF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Hutchinson 1978; Ace 1985) THE WALKING SHADOW (Fontana 1979; tysk övers. 1981; Carroll & Graf 1989; spansk övers. 1990). Pringles THE 100 BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS OPTIMAN (DAW 1980; i Storbritannien WAR GAMES Pan 1981; polsk övers. kommande) THE CASTAWAYS OF TANAGAR (DAW 1981) ASGARD-trilogin: JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE (SF Book Club 1982; DAW 1982; fransk övers. 1983; tysk övers. 1984; svensk övers. ASGÅRDS GÅTA Delta, 1986; reviderad & utvidgad utgåva NEL 1989) INVADERS FROM THE CENTRE (NEL 1990) THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD (NEL 1990) THE GATES OF EDEN (DAW 1983; NEL 1990; fransk övers. 1984; tysk övers. 1985) THE EMPIRE OF FEAR (Simon & Schuster (U.K.) 1988; Pan 1990; spansk övers. kommande; tysk övers. kommande; italiens övers. kommande) ZARAGOZ (som Brian Craig; G. W. Books 1989) PLAGUE DAEMON (som Brian Craig; G. W. Dooks 1990) THE WEREWOLVES OF LONDON (Simon & Schuster (U.K.) 1990) STORM WARRIORS (som Brian Craig; G. W. Books kommande ?/91) GHOST DANCERS (som Brian Craig; G. W. Books kommande ?/91) SEXUAL CHEMISTRY: SARDONIC TALES OF THE GENETIC REVOLUTION (Simon & Schuster (U.K.) kommande 1/91) Stablefords fackböcker THE MYSTERIES OF MODERN SCIENCE (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1977) A CLASH OF SYMBOLS: THE TRIUMPH OF JAMES BLISH (Borgo 1979) ESSAYS ON SIX SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS (MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTICN I) (Borgo 1981) THE SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION (Michael Joseph 1982; Knopf 1982; spansk övers.; skriven i samarbete med Peter Nicholls & David Langford) FUTURE MAN (Granada 1984; Crown 1984) THE THIRD MILLENNIUM (Sidgwick & Jackson 1985; Knopf 1986; Paladin 1988; fransk övers. 1986; japansk övers. 1987; skriven i samarbete med David Langford) SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE IN BRITAIN, 1890--1950 (Fourth Estate 1985) THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION (Borgo 1987) THE WAY TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION (Elm Tree 1989) ALGEBRAIC FANTASIES AND REALISTIC ROMANCES (Borgo kommande ?/91) OPENING MINDS (Borgo kommande ?/91) Stableford som redaktör TALES OF THE WANDERING JEW (Dedalus kommande 3/91) MORAL RUINS: THE DEDALUS BOOK OF DECADENCE (Dedalus 1990) Stablefords medverkan i referensböcker THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION red. Robert Holdstock (Octopus 1978; 6,000 ord) THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION red. Peter Nicholls (Granada & Doubleday 1979; 133,000 ord) THE SURVEY OF SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE red. Frank Magill (Salem Press 1979; 112,000 ord) NOVELS AND NOVELISTS red. Martin Seymour-Sm1th (Windward 1980; 3,000 ord) ANATOMY OF WONDER red. Neil Barron (Bowker 2nd. ed. 1981; 20,000 ord; 3rd ed. 1987; 60,000 ord) THE CRITICAL SURVEY OF SHORT FICTION red. Frank Magill (Salem Press 1981; 10,000 ord) SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS red. E. F. Bleiler (Scribner's 1982; 34,000 ord) THE SURVE OF MODERN FANTASY LITERATURE red. Frank Magill (Salem Press 1983; 151,000 ord) THE CRITICAL SURVEY OF LONG FICTION red. Frank Magill (Salem Press 1983; 8,000 ord) THE SCIENCE FICTION SOURCE BOOK red. David Wingrove (Longman 1984; 31,000 ord) THE CRITICAL SURVEY OF LONG FICTION (FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITERS) red. Frank Magill (Salem Press, 1984; 6,000 ord) SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS red. E. F. Bleiler (Scribner's 1985; 47,000 ord) POSTMODERN FICTION red. Larry McCaffery (Greenwood 1986; 2,000 ord) THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO LITERATURE IN ENGLISH red. Ian Ousby (Cambridge University Press, 1988; 5,000 ord) THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION red. James Gunn (Viking, 1988; 24,000 ord) SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK REVIEW ANNUAL 1988 red. Robert A. Collins & Robert Latham (Meckler 1989; 2,000 ord) FANTASY LITERATURE red. Neil Barron (Garland 1990; 83,000 ord) HORROR LITERATURE red. Neil Barron (Garland 1990; 52,000 ord) Priser och utmärkelser European SF Award (1984) för THE SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION (skriven i samarbete med Peter Nicolls och David Langford) Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1987) J. Lloyd Eaton Award (1987; delat med Thomas Clareson) för SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE IN BRITAIN, 1890--1950 Gigamesh Award (1988) för spanska översättningen av THE SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION (skriven i samarbete med Peter Nicolls och David Langford) Interzone Award (1990) för "The Magic Bullet"