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Madame Vastra, the fabled Lizard Woman of Paternoster Row, knew death in many shapes and forms. But perhaps one of the most bizarre of these was death by snow...On a cold day in December, two young boys, tired of sweeping snow from the workhouse yard, decide to build a...
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Bbc Digital
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2012-12-18
ePub
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The Presences mean something different to each of Jubal's colonists. In some, these towering crystals inspire awe, in others fear. A small band must break through the long silence between humanity and the Presences to strike a new alliance-and bring about the end of a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Man and sun can become one... an unstoppable combination of energy and intellect. But what happens when a rogue star falls in love with a human women? Is there any way passion can be fulfilled? Molly Zaldivar discovered the terrifying answer when she was picked to join...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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A collection of short stories from the award-winning author, Kate Wilhelm. Contains the following:The Mile-Long Spaceship Fear Is a Cold Black Jenny with WingsA Is for Automation Gift from the Stars No Light in the Window One for the Road Andover and the Android The Man...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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"My lover, my protector, my friend, my doctor, my brother - they're all killing me."Peter Roos cannot help knowing the thoughts of those around him. A rare physical condition has given him that power. Now he has "heard" about the government's secret plan to give up...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2012-12-14
ePub
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It is hard to say how it started - all the unexplained little signs of a new baby about the house in 'The Silent Cradle' - but soon none of the O'Bannons could deny that there had been a highly irregular addition to the family. In 'Max Haunting' a middle-aged hippie,...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Pip and Flinx: Book Thirteen."I know who your father is . . . Gestalt." A stunned Flinx hears these dying words from one of the renegade eugenicists whose experiments with humans twenty-odd years ago shocked the galaxy . . . and spawned Flinx. So Flinx and his minidrag,...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
ePub
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It seemed like a good idea; even a noble experiment. But the outcome was sheer hell. When the Balduin brothers escaped from the tedium of the human hive of Atlanta, Georgia, they had a mission. They were to voyage to the planet Trope, contact a tribe there known as...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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After The Knights of the Limits, here is a second collection of endlessly inventive stories by Barrington J. Bayley; dark fables resounding with sombre undertones - love used as a weapon, God assassinated by the ingenuity of man, the secret of death revealed, the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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FLETCHER HAD TO DIE.And so he did; and found himself in a place - in a state of mind - that he could not tolerate. And so he had to die again. And then again. Until, soon enough, it became clear that death did not want him.It became his challenge to die into life!
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Three travellers find six very different worlds await their choice - if they have the courage to leave Eden...On awakening in an idyllic tropical paradise, Rex is disoriented and possibly afflicted with amnesia. He knows his name, but the particulars are curiously...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Benny Rice is not what he seems to be. His tests for rebirth reveal all the necessary traits - compassion, health, energy, potential for creativity - but with the intelligence of a moron, which disqualifies him. But Benny's test scores must be re-examined in a crisis...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Why is the government deliberately destroying all trace of Man's past?Why are the laws of gravity and momentum strangely altered? Why has the world's population continually increased without the predicted eco-crisis taking place? Why is there an international conspiracy...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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They were three: Maq Ancor, the master assassin, Macician Cherry, space illusionist, Sine Anura, mistress of the erotic. Chosen for the great quest, the journey into the heart of mankind's greatest creation: Zeus. Zeus who made the new worlds for Man, endlessly...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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When human genes go wild, reproduction can no longer be left to chance - and it is Robert Wellton, Chief of the Genetics Bureau, the most feared and hated man in the world, who decides who will mate with whom.But nobody can tell Wellton whom to mate with! He alone knows...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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It was supercivilization, a Utopia. At its core were the Cybernetic Brains, brains taken from geniuses who were promised they would live forever.Then engineer Al Demming discovers the truth accidentally, the terrible truth transmitted to him by one of the brains. The...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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As the mighty spaceship Skylark roamed the intergalactic spaceways, scientist Richard Seaton and his companions found a world of disembodied intelligences. A world of four dimensions where time was insanely distorted and matter obeyed no terrestrial laws - where...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
ePub
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime - they are going to Mars. But Carmen isn't so sure she wants to. After training for a year and preparing to leave on the six-month journey, she finds that the initial excitement has given way...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
ePub
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Jarvis Hilton is in charge of a handpicked team of scientists - and a navy warship on a deep space mission, dubbed Project Theta Orionis. On the outbound journey, automatic sensors drop their ship - the Perseus - into normal space for an encounter with a mysterious...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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Classic space opera adventure, Book #7 in the "Family D'Alembert" series. For centuries, the planet Gastonia has been a planet of exile, an escape-proof prison world for the worst sorts of traitors. But now, it seems, prisoners are indeed escaping, and all evidence...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-12-14
ePub
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