{"id":4284,"date":"2018-04-30T04:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2018-05-04T04:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T04:03:05","slug":"brian-stableford-and-french-sft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Brian Stableford and French SFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stableford.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A prolific sf author in his own right, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-encyclopedia.com\/entry\/stableford_brian_m\">Brian Stableford<\/a><\/span> has also translated an astonishingly large number of works of early French speculative fiction for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcoatpress.com\/\">Black Coat Press<\/a><\/span>. And when I say &#8220;astonishingly large,&#8221; I mean there are so many stories and novels that I&#8217;m just going to list a selection here. He&#8217;s also written several articles about this fascinating time in the formation of the genre for the <em>New York Review of Science Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2012\/02\/the-origins-of-the-science-fiction-genre-by-brian-stableford.html\">&#8220;The French Origin of the Science Fiction Genre,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 2\/25\/12<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2013\/05\/notes-on-the-origins-of-the-term-scientific-romance-and-its-implications-for-the-development-of-scie.html\">&#8220;Notes on the Origins of the Term \u201cScientific Romance\u201d and Its Implications for the Development of Science Fiction,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 5\/5\/13<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2013\/08\/the-appealed-apocalypse-edgar-quinets-ahasv%C3%A9rus-and-the-uncertain-future-by-brian-stableford.html\">&#8220;The Appealed Apocalypse: Edgar Quinet\u2019s Ahasv\u00e9rus and the Uncertain Future,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 8\/4\/13<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2014\/04\/brian-stableford-reconfiguring-the-wisdom-of-the-ancients-annotated-poetry-erasmus-darwin-and-the-ev.html\">&#8220;Reconfiguring the Wisdom of the Ancients: Annotated Poetry, Erasmus Darwin, and the Evolution of Scientific Romance,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 4\/13\/14<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2016\/01\/brian-stableford-the-perils-of-prophecy-2-the-great-indifference-of-the-world.html\">&#8220;The Perils of Prophecy 2: The Great Indifference of the World,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 1\/11\/16<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2016\/07\/brian-stableford-nightmares-of-a-utopian-the-science-fiction-of-r%C3%A9gis-messac.html\">&#8220;Nightmares of a Utopian: The Science Fiction of R\u00e9gis Messac,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 7\/4\/16<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrsf.com\/2017\/02\/brian-stableford-madame-de-villeneuve-and-the-origins-of-the-fantasy-novel.html\">&#8220;Madame De Villeneuve and the Origins of the Fantasy Novel&#8221;<\/a><\/span> <em>NYRSF<\/em>, 2\/26\/17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcoatpress.com\/fiction-in-1965.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1965-01-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1965-01-186x300.jpg 186w, 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And when I say &#8220;astonishingly large,&#8221; I mean there are so many stories and novels that I&#8217;m just going to list a selection here. He&#8217;s also<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=4284\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[155,547,83,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}