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Slippery Jim diGriz is in the process of robbing the new Mint on Paskonjak when the heist goes terribly wrong. Threatened with a horrific death,Slippery Jim is allowed to cut a deal with the Galactic League: voyage to the planet Liokukae and bring back a missing...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-11-14
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong, and completely brainwashed.He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own.)Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping for a real foot to replace...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-11-14
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BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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Award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history.
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-10-20
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Life has not been easy for battle-weary Tungdil the dwarf. But this heroic warrior can't rest yet, as he must now face the most formidable enemy the kingdom has ever encountered.A new evil is terrorising the land of Girdlegard. Monstrous hybrid creatures are on the...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
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2011-10-06
Collection :
Dwarves
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Escape is all that Quir thinks about. Escape from the enclosure on Earth. Escape from the endless interrogations. Quir's memories have been burned out; all he knows is that he must give scientific data to humans whenever they ask for it....
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
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What! A science fiction novel about science fiction fans? And why not?Or - like it says in this novel:"Do you really think that a group of science fiction fans could save this planet? Could understand this situation to save it?""I most certainly do," she says. "Who...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The space programme has finally lost its novelty, and a jaded public hardly notices another moon launch. Skilful PR men preserve the illusion that the missions have become routine.But astronaut Richard Martin can tell a different story. Of panic in deep space, of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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Marvin Martin, the show's host, is angry. Night after night he strips his guests of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies - but how long has it been since he uncovered a genuine revelation?Hurwitz, who selects Martin's victims, is scared. He made a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the Universe were concentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance - until the aliens came. To them, Simmons was the most important human on...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
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It was a sultry summer day in 1981, and the 3 billion or so inhabitants of the world went about their daily routine unaware that, possibly, the fate of the human race lay in the shaking hands of one George Mercer, an insignificant and slightly neurotic employee of the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Bitterly,Bitterly, Scop is a failure!Scop is doing his job . . .He has spoken to President Kennedy, warning him to leave Dallas immediately . . . spoken to Zapruder, asking him not to take pictures . . . pleaded with Elaine Kozciouskos, begging her only to scream, has...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Earth's Elite - or its outcasts?For a selected, genetically-fitted few among the teeming millions of the twenty-first century, to become a Messenger for the Hulm Institute is to escape the prison that is life, that is earth.A Messenger is Noble!A Messenger is One of the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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The year is 2016, and President Kennedy is being murdered - again and again and again.The director has come to the charred ruins of New York to re-enact a mad dream from the past - the assassination of President Kennedy. As actors, he has the primitive race who inhabit...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Folsom's Planet - An Alien land yet so familiar.If the mission were a success,Folsom's planet would bear his name for eternity. The barbarians would be civilized; the planet would join the Federation; the Federation's integrity would be preserved.But Hans Folsom had to...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Who can resist the Final Trip?Earth in the twenty-third century is adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population, compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the technical wizardry of the Church of the Epiphany and the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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A staggering vision of Earth in the not-so-distant future. . .In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response. And if you pit...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision of the major issues...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
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"Five of our worlds are missing". That was the essence of the report that shocked the galactic Nomads at their annual meeting. For each of the mighty star-ships reported vanished was a world of its own - a man-made, self-sustaining city-state housing thousands of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
Collection :
PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE
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When the Order of Planetary Engineers sent Hall Davenant to Ganymede for a terraforming survey, they knew that the job on the airless, frigid Jovian moon would be tough. Changing it to resemble Earth - with fertile land, water and good air - was the biggest and most...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
Collection :
PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE
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Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedom. Ythri was...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
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