#stableford

[vintagerpg]

As I mentioned yesterday, I really love Jason Eckhardt’s work on the Lovecraft Country sourcebooks for Call of Cthulhu, particularly the desolate townscapes in Escape from Innsmouth. Right around the same time that came out, Necronomicon Press released Brian Stableford’s The Innsmouth Heritage (1992), also illustrated by Eckhardt. It gave the artist a chance to restore the fishing town to some of its glory, after a fashion.

The story is an interesting one, which sees Innsmouth under redevelopment. A geneticist and a historian discuss the town and hash out a plausible theory for the “taint” and all the legends around the town. We readers, think we know the truth, but Stableford does a good job of subverting expectations back and forth. It’s a solid story and was a key component for ’90s Stu figuring out how to read Lovecraft in different ways.

Eckhardt contributes to that in a visual way, twinning his decayed Innsmouth with this revived one, even if our clearest view of it is on the cover. What a job though! It captures a sense of a seaside tourist town while also maintaining a sense of the sinister in the distorted reflections.

[retroscifiart]

Art by Tim White for Wildeblood's Empire by Brian M. Stableford (1979)

[sketchyracoon]

Dancers were a big inspiration for this year's week one of mermay.

[oldschoolfrp]

"Rhapsody in Black," Angus McKie cover art, Imagine 29, TSR UK, August 1985 (originally used as the cover of a 1976 printing of Brian Stableford's novel Rhapsody in Black, later seen on the 2000 album Steel the Light by the metal band Q5)

[the25centpaperback]

Optiman by Brian M. Stableford, cover by Michael Mariano (1980)

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - Balance Of Power by Brian M. Stableford

DAW (1979)

[duhmess]

the world of GeneSys would be Laios's perfect world. the amount of weird animal facts to learn, the chimeras everywhere... he'd be SO into learning the difference between all earthly and unearthly creatures. he would really like Carus, Aluach, Ereleth, and Mossasaur, cause they're all autistic weirdos like him. I think he would either be best friends with Andris or mortal enemies, depending on how their "big weird guy with Opinions" energies match up

[van-goghs-smoking-skull]

WIP Game!

Thank you @osirisiii-bc for tagging me!

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

After various pauses I recently started to write full time again so perfect timing for this. Here are my WIPs with actual doc names:

Fics (some lean fanfic, but I'm pretty much getting away from that for the most part - too much drama in the past):

Dream Cycle

Tangent (my OCs - used to be SPG related but now I'm writing all of that out)

A Toast to Hell (Fragments) (my OCs - some are Ghost or The Angel of Pain inspired; and mentions of @venlycat's OCs)

and 2 more unpublished WIPs

Arts:

None atm (sorry, it takes time to get my life back in enough order to get all my old hobbies rolling again)

I’ll tag @venlycat, @awesome--fangirl, @lupinedreaming, @endreal, @dibremembers and anyone else I know but didn't tag

[theshadowmenlounge]

The Mystique of Tomaru Sawagoe

I would say I've never been so fascinated by a villain who's actual stories I haven't read directly, but then I remember way back in 2012 when I hadn't bought any Paul Feval Novels yet but was reading about them on places like the CoolFrenchComics website and thus already compelled by the Aurora around characters like Colonel Bozzo-Corona.

Given Tomaru's wealth and connections Headcanoning him to be a Blackcoat is very plausible.

The late Brian Stableford often talked in his Introductions and Afterwards of his Translations often talked about how many Feval Villains were treated more as Personifications of specific Sins rather then believable people. And in that sense Tomaru Sawagoe fits in with Paul Feval villains perfectly as the personification of Rape and Child Molestation.

[book0ftheday]

The Paradise Game by Brian M. Stableford, cover art by Kelly Freas, first printing 1974. Part of the Star-Pilot Grainger series.

[thegratefulgolfer]

Open Day Of The 2024 Golf Season Is Here

The day has finally arrived! The 2024 golf season starts at my local courses. After months of lamenting, hoping and wishing, the local golf courses are opening. It is exactly 11 days longer than I had hoped, but that is the nature of Mother Nature! So, now what? What do I do next? These and many more are great questions. The trick is to start strong without causing any damage to my body. This…

[zippocreed501]

AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.'

'...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.'

'Writing is something you have to teach yourself, by practicing long and hard, but I hope this book will help you to practice more.'

'Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.'

'From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.'

Author Extraordinaire Brian Stableford

[deepdarkspaceblog]

'Halcyon Drift' Bridges Two Ages Of SF

'Halcyon Drift' clobbers traditional space opera expectations but doesn't quite reach its New Wave aspirations. #scifi #books #bookreview

Halcyon Drift (1972) by Brian Stableford seeks to drag space opera into the darker depths of human experience. However, rather than focusing on one or two points, Stableford offers a jumble of ideas that drag the story down rather than lift it up. Halcyon Drift is not a bad story, only one that doesn’t live up to its potential. Grainger, marooned on an unknown planet in the Halcyon Drift for two…

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Brian M. Stableford - Wildeblood's Empire (1979) (Tim White)

[70sscifiart]

Patrick Woodroffe’s 1974 cover art for "Day of Wrath" by Brian M. Stableford

[barbariankingdom]

Brian Stableford, July 25, 1948 – February 24, 2024