'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful' - SFX'Magnificent ... a series you'd be wise to follow from the start' - GUARDIANFor ten thousand years the varied races of the Second Sphere lived...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Engines of Light
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'A modern-day George Orwell' - SFX'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful' - GUARDIANThe Second Sphere is thousands of light years away from Earth - if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Engines of Light
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'Thought-provoking and entertaining, this highly original first-contact story should please any science fiction reader.' - School Library Journal'Mind-expanding science fiction at its best; it is no surprise that it has been shortlisted for all the main science fiction...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07

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'He is writing revolutionary science fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky.' - Kim Stanley Robinson'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg' - ASIMOV'S SFIn a newer world order where the peace process is deadlier...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Fall Revolutions
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'Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.' - SALON'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution,...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Fall Revolutions
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'Stylish, witty, and engaging!' - San Diego Union Tribune'Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.' - Romantic Times BookclubThe Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away....

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07

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'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats . . . fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel; new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention' - SUNDAY TIMES'Polymathic, visionary brilliance' - FINANCIAL...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-05-24

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From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-05-22

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A mysterious black hole is draining away power from the Universe. Even the Time Lords are threatened. The Doctor is also in trouble. Creatures from the black hole besiege UNIT Headquarters. The only person who can help the Doctor is... himself.The Time Lords bring...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2012-05-10

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UNIT is called in when an important diplomat is attacked in his own home - by a man who then vanishes into thin air. The Doctor and Jo spend a night in the 'haunted' house and meet the attackers - who have time-jumped back from the 22nd century in the hope of changing...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2012-05-10

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...He heard a shout, distant and ringing, "No, Carson! Not that door!"Something green writhed in through that door. Something gaseous, billowing, filling the chamber faster and faster, something that caught at his throat and gagged him, made him wretch, brought...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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A collection of some of Jack Vance's best short fiction, containing:Golden GirlMasquerade on DicantropusAbercrombie StationCholwell's ChickensThe MitrThe World BetweenWhen the Five Moons RiseMeet Miss UniverseThe Insufferable Red-headed Daughter of Commander Tynnott,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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In the reaches of Mircea's Whips the convoluted plots and politics that have swirled around the House of Clattuc and the Conservancy of Cadwal are beginning to unravel. But what remains for Glawen Clattuc to discover could bring down a dozen powerful families on as many...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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Arrabus on the planet Wyst is an "egalistic" nation, where everyone is supposedly equal to everyone else. Arrabins work only two hours per week ("drudge"), which is drawn at random each week. In return, they receive food in the form of gruff, deedle, and wobbly - all...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures. "The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which greatly...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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Life had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy. For as the system moved it swept up cosmic dust and debris. Ice ages and periods of tropical warmth followed one another very quickly. Meteors large and small fell...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16

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John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And OddJohn has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-12
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS
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In this penultimate novel in the bestselling Fate of the Jedi series, Luke Skywalker, his son Ben, and the Sith girl Vestara are in hot pursuit of the dread power called Abeloth, who has joined forces with the Sith in a bid to take over the galaxy. The leadership of the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-31

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While Luke and Ben Skywalker continue their exploration of the mystery known as Abeloth with their unlikely Sith allies, the galaxy is abuzz with the trial of former Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila. This moment when the fate of the Jedi might be determined is close at hand, as...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-31

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The fate of the Rebellion rests on Luke Skywalker’s next move.But have the rebels entered a safe harbor or a death trap?Eight months after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebellion is in desperate need of a new base. So when Governor Ferrouz of Candoras Sector proposes an...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-31

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