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Cover by Jean-Félix Lyon kindle nook epub or pdf through personal e-mail delivery (please specify which format you prefer when you order): $5.99   EVER SMALLER by Albert Bleunard adapted by Brian Stableford The spider turned round and abruptly launched itself toward Camaret. He leapt sideways, and was thus able to evade the enemy's attack. Paradou tried to do likewise, but he tripped over a stone and fell backwards. In an instant, the spider had hurled itself upon him, seized him in its mandibles and spun him around in mid-air. US$20.95/GBP 12.99 5x8 tpb, 224 p. ISBN-13: 978-1-16227-014-2 In Albert Bleunard's Ever Smaller (1893), the first modern novel on the theme of the "Shrinking Man," a group of scientists are shrunken down, first to insect-size, to explore an ordinary garden, which becomes as perilous to them as an alien world; then, to microbe-size inside a drop of water and, finally, into a rose bush. The book also includes The Reluctant Spiritualist, an 1889 novella about a mysterious and seemingly blank canvas which when photographed reveal the face of a man. "Ever Smaller is a significant landmark in the history of scientific romance. Not only does it go where no writer had gone before, in extending its thought-experiments beyond those of Jean-Henri Fabre and S. Henry Berthoud, it does so boldly." Brian Stableford. 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: Toujours Plus Petits [Ever Smaller] (1893) Le Spirite malgré lui [The Reluctant Spiritualist] (1889) Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.