The Revelations of Time and Space

Brian Stableford

Zephaniah Corcoran has just returned to Earth after a seven-year jaunt to Jupiter where his special—some would say dubious talents were put to the test in attempted communication with the Jovian cloud-whales. With no time to adjust to life on an Earth half alarmed and half fatalistic at the prospect of final catastrophe, he is headhunted for a reprise of his old job: being projected by the brilliant but asocial Walter Halleck’ s Coincidence-driven Sling into the far future to make empathic contact with the various successors to the human race.

In the meantime, he is discovering a close and mysterious bond with Denise, a doctor of evolutionary biology and the younger sister he has hardly known, who has been noticed by the same big players who have noticed Zeph. But nothing goes quite according to plan, and as the fate of humanity dangles on a thread grown very frayed, Zeph’ s empathic skills are expanded in unexpected ways, not so much by coincidence, as by Coincidence, bringing Zeph and those around him into contact with what are perhaps only the beginning of ongoing revelations of time and space whose grandeur match the universe that Zeph and his colleagues must now begin to explore.

About the Author
Brian Stableford’ s scholarly work includes New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance (Wildside Press, 2016), The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French roman scientifique (Black Coat Press, 2017) and Tales of Enchantment and Disenchantment: A History of Faerie (Black Coat Press, 2019). In support of the latter projects he has translated more than a hundred volumes of roman scientifique and more than twenty volumes of contes de fées into English. He has edited Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology (Snuggly Books, 2018), and is busy translating more Symbolist and Decadent fiction. His recent fiction, in the genre of metaphysical fantasy, includes a trilogy of novels set in West Wales, consisting of Spirits of the Vasty Deep (2018), The Insubstantial Pageant (2018) and The Truths of Darkness (2019), published by Snuggly Books, and a trilogy set in Paris and the south of France, consisting of The Painter of Spirits, The Quiet Dead and Living with the Dead, all published by Black Coat Press in 2019.

Paperback, 384 pages. Release date: June 2, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-030-2
Price: US$24.00

Hardcover, 386 pages. Limited edition of 70 copies
Price: US$36.00