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  • Re: Brian Stableford (1948 - 2024)

    From Ahasuerus@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Sun Feb 25 15:15:11 2024
    On 2/25/2024 2:45 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    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.

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 25 19:45:30 2024
    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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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to wthyde1953@gmail.com on Sun Feb 25 20:27:28 2024
    In article <urg6le$21mre$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    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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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to ahasuerus@email.com on Sun Feb 25 21:24:12 2024
    In article <urg74f$219dm$1@dont-email.me>,
    Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
    On 2/25/2024 2:45 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    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.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Sun Feb 25 23:25:36 2024
    On 2024-02-25, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    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.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Sun Feb 25 21:59:27 2024
    In article <urg5cq$9vm$1@panix2.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    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_.

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From Jerry Brown@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 26 07:24:36 2024
    On 25 Feb 2024 19:45:30 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
    wrote:


    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)

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Mon Feb 26 15:37:00 2024
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:

    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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