After the Revelation

Brian Stableford

In this breathless sequel to Revelations of Time and Space, Brian Stableford guides us through the hours aboard the spaceship Minerva during which psychic contact with the Saturnian intelligences now known as “the Bells” is renewed.

In the claustrophobic, would-be Utopia of the small spaceship, with the fate of the disaster-stricken human race at stake, the minutes and hours are as expansive as those during experimental surgery, and that’s without the subtle manipulations of time that Denise Corcoran senses are taking place, with the spaceship under the Bells’ influence.

Will Zephaniah Corcoran’s second contact with the Bells answer the questions raised by the first contact?

Can Captain Kemmering keep the pressure cooker of the Saturn-orbiting spaceship from exploding?

Can the crew of the Minerva, and the human race who are watching from Earth, trust these unearthly intelligences?

After the Revelation, a brilliant novel by one of science fiction’s great veterans, takes us into the real-time suspense of the characters facing these questions.

About the Author
Brian Stableford has been writing for fifty years. His fiction includes include eleven novels and seven short story collections in a series of “tales of the biotech revolution”; a series of metaphysical fantasies set in Paris in the 1840s, featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin, most recently Yesterday Never Dies (2012); and a series of supernatural mysteries set in an artist’s colony, most recently The Pool of Mnemosyne (2018). Recent novels independent of any series include Vampires of Atlantis (2016) and The Tangled Web of Time (2016). He also translates antique works from the French, with particular interests in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements, roman scientifique and the fantastique.

Paperback, 296 pages. Release date: December 7, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-085-2
Price: US$20.00