Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-03-25

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The recession has left the world exhausted. Crime is rising; financial institutions across the world have collapsed, and most governments are now in debt toThe Bank, a company created by the world's wealthiest men. But Detective Inspector Cass Jones has enough on his...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-03-25
Collection : Dog-Faced Gods Trilogy
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The capsuleers are the immortal pilots that string together the vast Interglactic empire that makes up the universe of EVE. Remote from the mortal population they have come from they are cold and distant. They are needed but hated.Drem has reason to hate them - a...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-03-25

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Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet, Destiny's Children, published by Gollancz between 2003 and 2006. But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in 1991.From there it built into...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-03-18

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Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-03-15

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The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-03-04
Collection : Culture
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"I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he's been too clever by half."Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-03-04

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For countless millennia, no man or beast has ever succeeded in breaching the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Until now . . .Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith is the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. But when he is sent out into the world to deliver a message and...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-03-04
Collection : Dwarves
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The dwarves have gone to battle and they have been victorious. But outside the realm, dark forces are working . . .A secret army of Orcs, made immortal by the hidden powers of the Black Water, now marches towards Girdlegard, set to unleash its fury upon the kingdom....

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-03-04
Collection : Dwarves
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WE ARE THE ONLY HUMANS LEFT . . . In the furthest, coldest, darkest reaches of our solar system, Paul Munro is on a mission from which he can never return. A desolate ice-covered moon will be his home for the rest of his life. And only from here can he see what humanity...

Editeur : Rhcp Digital
Parution : 2010-02-23

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Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the System's most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-02-04

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THIS IS AN ASSASSINATION. NOT YOURS. BUT AN ASSASSINATION NONE THE LESS.'Avery Cates, criminal 'king' of New York, has climbed his way to the top of a heap of trouble. On his knees in the snow, with a gun to his head, Avery thinks this must finally be it. Instead, he is...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2010-02-04

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George's friend, Kaz, arrives at the flat with a staggering request: she and her partner Gail want to have a child, and they'd like George to be the father. George is warming to the idea - he's always wanted kids, and he can be as involved in the baby's life as he...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door.Perhaps...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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One of Annie's oldest friends has come looking for her - and what's more amazing is that she's found her. Denise is the ultimate party girl, and she's determined to bring Annie out of her shell. Mitchell is delighted, but George really thinks the last thing they need to...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Reporter Sierra McIntyre's stories on Crystal City's ghost hunters - and their mysterious guild - have earned her tabloid a bit of respect. It helps that she has her incredible intuition to fall back on. Especially when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild Boss John...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-02-04
Collection : Harmony
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An explosion in a nuclear power plant.Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants.A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction."No," whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. "That's...

Editeur : Rhcp Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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Joy Randall is a girl with big expectations and an even bigger love for vampire romance novels. Unsuccessful so far in her quest to find her soulmate,Joy can’t say no when her friend Roxy suggests a holiday to the Czech Republic. Tall, dark strangers? Tick. Craggy,...

Editeur : Hodderscape
Parution : 2009-12-15
Collection : Dark Ones
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It’s not the ideal career. But Allegra Telford, confirmed singleton, has somehow found herself in a haunted hotel in London, trying unsuccessfully to summon spirits (and not even the alcoholic kind). So, obviously, she’s thrilled when she discovers the ghost of a...

Editeur : Hodderscape
Parution : 2009-12-15
Collection : Dark Ones
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The legendary space opera that kicked off the ground-breaking, universe-spanning series.Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest,...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2009-12-10
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS
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