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"Ashes and Tombstones"
© Moon Shots, ed. P. Crowther, 1999
--short story : 2000 Locus /17

"The Empire Of Fear" (nv)
© 1989, Gollancz
--runner-up : 1989 Clarke /2
--horror novel : 1989 Locus /7
--fiction : 1989 Lord Ruthven W

--/ cool f novel

"The Furniture Of Life's Ambition"
© Zenith # 2, ed. D. Garnett, 1990
Sexual Chemistry, 1991
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ idea award

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"The House of Mourning"
© Off-Limits, ed. E. Datlow, 1996
--short story : 1997 Stocker

A respectable treatment of mutant virus theme, this one adds another reason why one should not go to prostitutes. Stableford writes a little "low-key" here; it did not hook me.
review: 18-Jul-06 (read in 2005)

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"The Invisible Worm"
© 1988, F&SF
--novelette : 1992 Locus /17 (tie)
--/ cool sf story

"The Last Supper"
© Science Fiction Age, Mar 2000

"The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady"
© F&SF, Aug 1988
--novelette : 1989 Locus /12

"The Paradise Game" (nv)
(Black Swan series)
© 1974, DAW Books

"The Pipes Of Pan"
© F&SF, Jun 1997
--novelette : 1998 Locus /9
--/ third place sf story
--/ idea award
--/ style award
--/ emotion award


"Sexual Chemistry"
© Interzone, Sum 1987
--fiction : 1988 Interzone Poll /2

"Tread Softly"
© Interzone, Mar 2002
--short story : 2003 Locus Poll

"The Unkindness of Ravens"
© Interzone, Dec 1994
--best Interzone selection

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