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The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future.Captain Mond Aton had...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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THE GARMENTS OF CAEAN are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Nine brilliant stories of infinite space and alien consciousness, suffused with a sense of wonder . . .The Exploration of SpaceThe Bees of KnowledgeExit from CityMe and my AntronoscopeAll the King's MenAn OverloadMutation PlanetThe Problem of Morley's EmissionThe...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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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...
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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...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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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...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Rhys Morgan and Jack Dawson are the last two boys on the school bus. It's the same everyday. But today will be different.Coming down the hill towards Wellthorpe, through a heavy snow laden day, the bus careers out of control and crashes.Into a river and a different...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Honor White Jackson was a human being. But his planet was not Earth, nor his time Now. His world was dominated by a giant Iron Thorn. Beyond the reach of this tower there was supposedly, nothing - except a frozen, airless desert where huge winged beasts called Amsirs...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Seven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing and plotting.
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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...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE
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