It has been said that the natural state of science fiction is the short story. If that is so, you won't find a better exploration of that state than Charles Stross's new collection. Centred around an original and previously unpublished novella, 'Palimpsest', WIRELESS is...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2009-07-02

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When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk...Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen yacht is brought back...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-06-25

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The book is SF, but the first three-quarters take place in an almost fantasy setting. It is not a sequel to PRINCIPLES OF ANGELS, but it is set in the same universe and share the same villains, the Sidhe.When a naked, amnesiac stranger is found outside a remote highland...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2009-06-11

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The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they've been dissolved...With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-05-07

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A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair ReynoldsReynolds' pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing - not that stars don't get pulverised when one character is gifted (or cursed) with an awful weapon by the...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2009-04-30

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Few forms suit SF better than the short novel: long enough to flesh out the details of an alien world or bizarre future society, yet short enough to pack a punch - powerful, elegant and free of padding.Now, drawing on his benchmark annual series Best New SF, multiple...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2009-04-23
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Are you ready to come together?Are you tired of typing out your interests and hyping up the details of your everyday life? Imagine then a social network that touches and loves, sweats and farts. Imagine romance in real time. Imagine humans licking rather than double...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-04-15

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The Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding.The battles rage on across countless solar systems – and the Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters. Earth Command will pay these hunters...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-04-02

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1500BC - King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they're not gods at all. They're aliens. For the aliens, it's the...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-04-02

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Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis - an urban jungle, where organised crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected. And things are about to get worse... When the Doctor arrives, he...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-04-02

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A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEA post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-04-02

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The world: 'Cyberabad' is the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water-wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2009-04-02

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Praised by Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks alike - the dragon fantasy that heralded the arrival of an exciting new talent on the fantasy sceneThe Adamantine Palace lies at the centre of an empire that grew out of ashes. Once dragons ruled the world and man was little...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2009-03-19

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Children everywhere are disappearing.Orphan, Chess Tuesday, and her brothers, Box and Splinter, don't want to be next. But they are being tracked by two powerful enemy organizations, each intent on destroying the other . . . Who is good and who is evil?Why do both sides...

Editeur : Orion Children's Books
Parution : 2009-03-12
Collection : Bad Tuesdays
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Brilliant, driven, visionary, former astronaut Paul Stavanger seizes his chance to colonize the last frontier, creating a viable, flourishing, nearly self-sufficient community at Moonbase.   And when his son Douglas comes of age, his determination to carry on where his...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-03-09

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Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies: he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality, a religious group that wants to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-03-09

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Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth’s economy, but the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-03-09

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Every time the lights go out, someone dies...The TARDIS lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2009-02-26

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A novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head."Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2009-02-10
Collection : Culture
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The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well? Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2008-12-26

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