TY - ABST T1 - "Nectar" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Ararat Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Omega Expedition Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fountains of Youth Y1 - 2000 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.

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Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Architects of Emortality Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.

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Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Earth Y1 - 1998 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2). 

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A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of Innocence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.7 (232) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Touch" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.11 (236) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtuous Reality" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sexual Chemistry" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Developments in biochemistry aimed at sexual prowess result in a vaguely described eutopia.

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Rpt. as “A Career in Sexual Chemistry.” In his Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (London: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 21-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And He Not Busy Being Born. . . ." Y1 - 1986 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian/dystopian society of the future. Virtually immortal people remain children physically, know no difficulties. Story is about a man from the past who is revived.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) A1 - David [Rowland] Langford (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

History of the future that reads as a technological eutopia after the period of crisis between 2000 and 2180.

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U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castaways of Tanagar Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A planetary eutopia that freezes its outcasts (criminals and dissidents). With the rediscovery of Earth and the plan to explore it, the outcasts become necessary and so some are brought back to life. The eutopia, Tanager, is composed of Intellectuals, who dominate, Hedonists, and Pragmatists, who occupy a middle ground between the other two.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Realms of Tartarus Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A technological eutopia built above a polluted earth and the dystopia on the surface where humans, animals, and plants had evolved into a myriad of new species.

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The first section had originally been published as The Face of Heaven. The Realms of Tartarus Volume One. London: Quartet, 1976 as the first of an intended three volumes. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Game Y1 - 1974 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it. 

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U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.

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