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Brian Stableford (1948 - 2024)
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James Nicoll
2024-02-25 19:45:30 UTC
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Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.

While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
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William Hyde
2024-02-25 20:06:57 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
Sad to hear. He wrote some good books, and never a disappointing one.

I enjoyed the Daedelus books but have never reread them. Perhaps I
should. Though I suspect that my old DAW copies were, if well printed,
not well bound.

William Hyde
James Nicoll
2024-02-25 20:27:28 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
Sad to hear. He wrote some good books, and never a disappointing one.
I enjoyed the Daedelus books but have never reread them. Perhaps I
should. Though I suspect that my old DAW copies were, if well printed,
not well bound.
Only one of mine has fallen apart.
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Ahasuerus
2024-02-25 20:15:11 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
His dedication to the cause of bringing older French speculative fiction
to English-speaking readers was certainly admirable.
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-02-25 21:24:12 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
His dedication to the cause of bringing older French speculative fiction
to English-speaking readers was certainly admirable.
Another DAW (the man) winning choice.

I liked the Grainger books, despite the very-70s zeitgeist. I tried one
or two of the Daedelus books, but never really clicked with them.

He had another searies where the earth was enclosed in a shell with the
elite on the new surface and the hoi polloi underneath that was interesting.

I also noticed a recurrant image across a number of his books of watching
a city be born, come to greatness, decay and disappear from some sort
of godlike fast-time vantage point.
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Lynn McGuire
2024-02-25 23:00:25 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
RIP. I do not that that I have read any of his books.

Lynn
Christian Weisgerber
2024-02-25 23:25:36 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
I read the Grainger books, _probably_ in German translation in an
omnibus edition. I liked them well enough that I wanted to eventually
re-read them, but never got around to it.
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Robert Woodward
2024-02-26 05:59:27 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
I have read the Daedelus books and _Clash of Symbols: The Triumph of
James Blish_.
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Jerry Brown
2024-02-26 07:24:36 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
I reread (after a 30 year gap) the Daedelus series during lockdown -
must give the Graingers a try at some point.
--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
Scott Lurndal
2024-02-26 15:37:00 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Numerous sources report the death of SF author Brian Stableford. This
has been a terrible year for SFF.
While I suspect I reread his Daedelus books most often, my favourites were
the David Lydyard books. I should reread them.
I have two, neither of which I remember anything about.

$ testa tabl
artist title format location
Stableford, Brian Architects of Emortality Soft BOX A008
Stableford, Brian The Castaways of Tanagar soft BOX A011
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