The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories, both pre- and...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2010-05-27
Collection : Mammoth Books
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The island Republic has emerged from a ruined world. Its citizens are safe but not free. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues a girl from the sea. Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's sat facing three Examiners and her five-hour...

Editeur : Quercus Children's Books
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Stephen Baxter's new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people whose future is not yet locked as our...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Baxter's ability to combine wildly divergent narrative threads has become a trademark of his writing and has been seen to its best effect in the previous two novels from this sequence. TRANSCENDENT, with its melding of a near future narrative that carries a terrible...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-27

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A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England, the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin.A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-27

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From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest, to the rise and fall of mankind and the final destruction of earth by...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson.Arthur Dent led a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Castle Extremis - whoever holds it can control the provinces either side that have been at war for centuries. Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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'This is the Gyre - the most hostile environment in the galaxy...' 250,000 years' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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Caitlin Decter could never have anticipated what was coming when she first sensed a strange presence on the internet.Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended blind mathematics geniusCaitlin Decter and has grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-20

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600 years from now on the world of Fulgor Roger Blackstone, son of two Pilots (long-time alien spies, masquerading as ordinary humans) aches to see the mythical Pilot's city of Labyrinth, in the fractal ur-continuum of mu-space.In 8th century Norseland, a young carl...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-20

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It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). And with that, the fabric of reality was torn apart and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-05-14
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-05-14
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS
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'Right now, I'm a redhead. I've been blonde and brunette as the situation requires, though an unscheduled colour change usually means relocating in the middle of the night. So far, I'm doing well here. Nobody knows what I'm running from. And I'd like to keep it that...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-05-13

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Stephen Gately brought joy to many millions of fans throughout the world. In the months before his tragic death, he wrote this, his first novel, The Tree of Seasons. When Josh, Michael and Beth Lotts catch sight of some mysterious lights one summer’s evening, they are...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-05-13

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'As you'd expect from Holt, Blonde Bombshell is rife with puns, complicated setups for ridiculous gags, and a riveting story that is completely implausible.' - Booklist'BLONDE BOMBSHELL is a clever, funny, tirelessly inventive, apocalyptic leg-hump of a book. Tom Holt...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-05-06

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Professor Richard Helms heads up a tight-knit band of scientists and soldiers sent to explore New Amazon, a lush but savage planet seemingly determined to attack them at every turn. When they are done cataloguing every detail of this vast, unfamiliar ecosystem, they...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-05-06

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Having fled the invasion on Araldis, Mira Fedor travels to the nearest Orion League planet seeking aid for her devastated world, but the authorities seem more interested in stealing her bio-ship, Insignia, than in rendering help. While Mira flees from world to world,...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-05-06
Collection : Sentients of Orion
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'Compelling... Keeps the pages turning. The final cinematic scene, of a vast landscape filled with enormous armies, nicely sets the stage for book three of this daringly unconventional series in the Tolkien mold.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A journey unlike any other you have...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-05-06
Collection : Prince of Nothing
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While drifting in space, lost, due to navigational failure, a mineral scout discovers God. When word gets out, academics from the studiums across Orion scramble to gain the Entity's favour. However, not all the sentients of Orion hold this 'god' in awe - some, like the...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-05-06
Collection : Sentients of Orion
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