The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun.The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men -...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-08-07

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FROM THE RENOWNED CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS AND THE CHRYSTALIDS'Ingenious' Evening StandardFrancis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-08-07

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Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois' annual anthology has long been considered the standard by which other best-of-the-year SF collections are judged. After two decades' worth of superlative science fiction, Dozois now presents a retrospective compilation culling...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2008-03-27
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Experience the thrill of the chase, the terror of the unknown, the brilliance of Cutter and his team in these fantastic novelisations from Puffin. Hugely collectable these books will be tracked down by Primeval fans.

Editeur : Puffin
Parution : 2008-03-27

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experience the thrill of the chase, the terror of the unknown, the brilliance of Cutter and his team in these fantastic novelisations from Puffin. Hugely collectable these books will be tracked down by Primeval fans.

Editeur : Puffin
Parution : 2008-03-27

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Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong.'What the hell is that?''That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.''Christ . . . It looks like some kind of plastic.'As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-02-07

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This new edition of Brian Aldiss’s classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’, first published in 1941, to the 2006 story ‘Friends in Need’ by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-11-29

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One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-07-27

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Titan Alpha has landed: the most complex man-made object to reach Saturn's largest moon. The ten thousand men and women of Habitat Goddard are once more at the frontier of science. From their huge, artificial paradise hanging in orbit above Saturn, some of them dream of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2006-06-19

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How do you build a Tardis? What are the secrets of teleportation? Could Cybermen take over the world? Is telepathy possible - even for an alien? Will extra-terrestrials one day visit planet earth on their travels through the galaxy? Can a robotic dog catch a cold...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-11-03

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Following the development of massive airships, naïve Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-05-26

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When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-05-26

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When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-03-31

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Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-03-31

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The story of the men and women who risk everything to mine the riches of the asteroids began in "The Precipice" and continued in "The Rock Rats". It comes to its climax in "The Silent War". Martin Humphries, wealthy, ruthless and obsessed, has exiled his rival Lars...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2004-08-02

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'Anything you want to know, you hold the stone, ask me, and I will give you the answer'Douglas is not the sort of boy to panic when something out of the ordinary happens. But when he meets a native of the planet Vangar whose arm has dropped off and needs his help, and...

Editeur : Puffin
Parution : 2004-05-06

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Ten thousand men and women, exiled by the restrictive governments of Earth, are riding a man-made habitat to the planet Saturn. They form a volatile community. Some are innocents like Holly Lane, or Manuel Gaeta. Others are idealists like Edouard Urbain, or Kris...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2003-07-21

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It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2002-07-25

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A harrowing and unforgettable story of an extraterrestrial threat to utopian existence, and the ensuing battle in space hidden from all of earth's inhabitants. Thanks to the wonder of the hide, no one starves or freezes or gets sick on the perfect worlds of the...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2001-05-15

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An epic space novel by the acclaimed science-fiction writer, this is the story his readers have been waiting for...Published in 1992, MARS was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet which has fascinated astronomers since the dawn of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 1999-11-18

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