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Cover by Grillon THE XENOBIOTIC INVASION by Théo Varlet adapted by Brian Stableford The Xenobiota had invaded the tracks; a vehement thrust of the extraterrestrial creation was developing aggressive battalions of lichen on the rails, a reddish-purple coating bristling with spikes, like a giant crystallization. In the vault, packets of branched stalactites were hanging from the trolley-wires and the feeder cables. Prolongations of these vegetal masses were surging forth, developing like the sections of an expanding telescope. After a brief interval, a blood-red bubble formed at the tip, which burst with a noise like a pop-gun, projecting its dust of spores. US$20.95/GBP 12.99 5x8 tpb, 220 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-61227-054-8 Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut to have gone into space, returns to Earth with deadly alien spores which feed on electricity and threatens to utterly destroy our civilization. Theo Varlet's 1930 novel shows the influence of J.-H. Rosny Aîné's classic disaster story The Mysterious Force (1913) and Henri Allorge's award-winning The Great Cataclysm (1922), both available from Black Coat Press. It is an exhilarating thriller which extrapolates ideas about dangerous alien lifeforms with considerable verve and polish, and foreshadows many similar-themed novels of the 1950s. Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique for Black Coat Press which also published his most two recent fantasy novels: The New Faust at the Tragicomique, The Wayward Muse and The Stones of Camelot. Contents: - La Grande Panne [The Great Breakdown] (1930) Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.