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A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greatsWhen Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat....
Editeur :
Gateway
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2013-12-12
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2013-12-12
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Something odd is going on at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel. Receptionist Bryony Mailer has noticed a definite tendency towards disappearance amongst the guests. She’s tried talking to the manager, she’s even tried talking to the owner who lives in one of the best...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
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2013-12-05
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When rebels clash with renegades, it’s the Empire that may claim the final victory.Times are desperate for the Rebel Alliance. Harassment by the Empire and a shortage of vital supplies are hindering completion of a new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. So when Mid Rim...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-12-05
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When young Roy Malcolm won the aviation quiz contest, his prize should have meant an ordinary sight-seeing jaunt on one of the man-made space stations that circled the earth. But instead the trip turned into a terrifying journey as misadventure after misadventure...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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Flinx is the only one with any chance of stopping the evil colossus barrelling in to destroy the Humanx Commonwealth (and everything else in the Milky Way.) His efforts take him to the land of his mortal enemies, the bloodthirsty AAnn, where chances are excellent that...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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The art of writing great science fiction is that it challenges the imagination, pushing it to extreme limits and in this anthology, selecting some of the best modern science fiction from the last fifty years, twenty leading authors of the genre ask the question 'What...
Editeur :
Mammoth
Parution :
2013-11-28
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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A young genius is hunted by killers. His sole hope for survival lies in the brain power of the intelligent being he has created. The Earth's first machine intelligence becomes the key to a harrowing battle.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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Todd Wells is prepared for excitement when he joins his father, captain of the atomic tugboat STORMQUEEN, on a voyage from Antarctica to California. For this is no ordinary journey - they are towing five icebergs, each weighing six thousand million tons, to bring pure...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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The Giants...They came in the summer - the longest, hottest summer the village had ever known. They wouldn't drink beer - it was 'grossing'. They fought duels - and although people got killed, nobody got hurt. They dressed in shirts and shorts - but the clothes never...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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To see the stars. This was the great and paradoxical dream.To stand and look upward into space, at the myriad pin-points of light, forever out of reach, just as their forebears on Earth had in the long gone days before the building of the planetary shells.Mars, Jupiter,...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
Collection :
Golden Age Masterworks
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When James Blish died in 1975 he was one of the top science fiction writers. in addition, he was perhaps the leading technical critic in the science fiction field. Following on from the two earlier collections of his critical writing, under the anonymous pseudonym of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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From the Garlowe Clusters in the north to the Veils of Darkness in the south, the Star Kingdom sprawled over roughly a fifth of the galaxy. So huge was this realm that those who tussled for power over it seemed unable to appreciate that it faced annihilation by the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw first appeared in 1977. Its demonstration that science fiction is a special language, rather than gadgets and green-skinned aliens, had an impact that reverberates today in science fiction criticism. Close textual analyses of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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They were the first arrivals from the other side of the cosmos.With the help of the Martian scientist Thrin, they had crossed the whirling black abyss of the fourth dimension - a dimension that had never been reached before!Now a man with skin of pure marble-white and a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the fantastic work of E. E. 'Doc' Smith, one of the most influential authors of the pulp era. Working with legendary ASTOUNDING...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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A fantastic collection of recent stories from some of science fiction's greatest up-and-coming authors, including many award-winners.David Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden have long been recognised as some of the most skilled and trusted arbiters in science fiction,...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-11-21
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In an alien universe where space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for the travellers than for those they left behind. After six generations in flight, the inhabitants of the mountain-sized spacecraft the Peerless have used their...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2013-11-21
Collection :
ORTHOGONAL
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Here, collected for the first time in eBook form, are seven of Stephen Baxter's most remarkable and enjoyable novels, all dealing with alternate histories.In the TIME'S TAPESTRY series - containing the novels EMPEROR, CONQUEROR, NAVIGATOR and WEAVER - we see a series of...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2013-11-21
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