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First the good news. As you can see, I can show you three new volumes which have all been released in recent months: Curse of the Coral Bride and Kiss the Goat are both novels, while The Wayward Muse contains The Secret Exhibition, The Incubus of the Rose and The Arms of Morpheus - a new novella. Congratulations go to Ade Daniel for showing that he actually read the book! However, I'm sure you'll agree that Anne-Claire Payet's artwork for 'Muse is the best cover in a long while.
Brian has given up teaching creative writing at Winchester and is currently working on the Routledge volume on the science in science fiction. He has recently emailed me and asked that I publish the following, which is intended for The Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature from Scarecrow Press:
Author's
Note
When I delivered the text of this book in September 2004 it was, to my mind,
in a perfectly satisfactory condition; it had been checked by a skilled and
knowledgeable proofreader and I had gratefully made all the amendments she suggested.
When the publisher's proofs arrived I found that an in-house copy-editor had made thousands of amendments to the text, all but a few of which seemed to me to be blatantly injurious. Most were content to vandalize the grammar and punctuation, but a significant minority altered the meaning of the text so as to render whole sentences into gibberish or to import mistakes of fact. I asked the publisher - not very politely, I confess - to prepare a new set of proofs based on my text.
Two months later a second set was supplied; although they were a marked improvement on the previous set this effect had been achieved by applying a series of band-aids to the worst instances of mutilated text; the underlying problem remained untackled. At this point, I gave up in disgust and despair.
I should
like to apologise to users of this book, and to the authors whose work is annotated
herein, for the poor quality of this travesty of my text; my disappointment,
frustration and sense of betrayal is probably greater than the sum of theirs.
Brian Stableford, August 2005.
I hope you'll bear this in mind when considering the purchase of any Scarecrow Press title.
Well, after another long break, I have at least got plenty new for you with the opening of another new section; this time dealing with Brian's non-fiction. I have no intention of trying to make this complete, but only to include titles as and when I come across them. Believe me, covering Brian's fiction is plenty enough on its own.
Check out the Whatsnew? page for other changes to your favourite website.
Although I can't sell anything, Getting Hold of a Masterpiece will tell you where you can get copies of these wonderful books; including the exciting opportunity of buying some titles directly from Brian himself!
HELP!
Since I started this project in August 1999, I have read and reviewed all of Brian's novels and quite a few (yes, I've lost count :-) of his short stories.
I would very much like for this site to become a place where people who admire Brian's work can come to air their opinions and find out about upcoming events. I would hate it if this site were nothing but what I think. That wouldn't be worth reading, would it?
So, If you have any comments or would like to contribute a review of one of Brian's stories, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Again, thanks for dropping in and I hope you like what you find,
(-: Ian :-)
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