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The Rapparee is Jack Vance's preferred title for the novel previously published asThe Space Pirate andThe Five Gold Bands.Five gold bracelets imprinted with cryptic messages were the clues that set Paddy Blackthorn off on a riotous galactic treasure hunt. But Paddy...
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Gateway
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2011-11-14
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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition...
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Gateway
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2011-11-14
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Terry Carr has been called the editor with impeccable taste, the man who knows which stories will be Hugo and Nebula award winners months before he puts them in his justly famous Best SF of the Year series. There are 15 stories in this anthology. Judge for yourself. He...
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Gateway
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2011-11-14
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All seven books set in the REVELATION SPACE universe, now collected in one bundleNine 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, even...
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Gollancz
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2011-10-20
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"Mytilene," he told them, "is a pleasure world. Or, rather, I should say worlds. You can fly from any planet to any other in the atmosphere."The whole ball, which is much larger than Jupiter, is held together by electromagnetic forces created and maintained by the...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The devastated Earth had only a handful of inhabitants - now even their future was in the balance.The Twenty-Second Century had been and gone - and with it, the worst war in the bloody history of mankind: the War of the Black Rising.The Earth was devastated, the moon...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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ZAKYM: World of the night-rulers and the day people. A world teetering on the edge of nightmare.The Cyclan orders were clear - 'Find Dumarest. Find him before war erupts on ZAKYM.' But Zakym could hold the key to Dumarest's search for his lost home planet - and for that...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Dumarest Saga
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Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thousand years. What...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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BUG-EYED MONSTERS ON BROADWAYPulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away.But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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"Welcome to the circus of Chen Wei! A spectacle of marvels culled from a thousand worlds! Things that will fill you with rapture!"There could be little to surprise Dumarest. But Chen Wei's circus was special. It held Melome - the girl-child whose song could bring back...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Dumarest Saga
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Masters of Everon, announces the brass plate on the door of the original Everon colonists' corporate headquarters. But somehow Everon resisted all their efforts; it was as if the planet itself fought against human efforts to establish a foothold. Some settlers want to...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Johnny Parent was driven by a furious anger - anger against the cocky aliens from outer space and anger against the company which had hired him to build the space drive which would lift the quarantine against Earth.It was a tough problem - made tougher by the company's...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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THEY WERE GREEN,THEY WERE LITTLE,THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS ANDTHEY WERE EVERYWHERE!Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a Martian - but he certainly wasn't the last.It was...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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It was carnival time on Earth. Prosperity was at its peak; science had triumphed over environment; all human needs were taken care of by computers, robots and androids. There was nothing left for humans to do but enjoy, themselves . . . to seek pleasure where they found...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Kynance Foy was young, beautiful, intelligent an highly trained in both qua-space physics and business law when she left Earth to seek her fortune in the interstellar outworlds. But she found that the further she got from Earth, the tougher became the competition from...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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A Pandora's box of evilFreitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Supreme power was what he...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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There was a cure for depression and unemployment.There was a cure for war, madness and national hatreds.There was a cure for prejudice, crime and mass hysteria.But there were this that wanted the cure suppressed until the world collapsed!A novel of the fever-pitched...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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John W. Campbell was the man who made modern science fiction what it is today. As editor of Astounding Stories (later Analog), Campbell brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others, while his own writing blazed new trails in...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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In the year 25,000 ADWhen John Martels returned to consciousness he found himself the Delphic Oracle of a world far different from the Twentieth Century. Humanity has risen and fallen three times and was back once again in a semi-primative state.He shared his oracular...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
HAERTEL SCHOLIUM
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