Paul Kaufmann is dead - but his mind lives on.And the mind of a financial genius is always in demand.Mark Kaufmann, the old man's nephew and heir, wants it, to ensure the future of the Kaufmann empire.The ruthless and self-made John Roditis, Mark's great rival, wants...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Time travel spelled problems for the couriers of theTime Service. Shuttling backwards and forwards over the centuries they had to be wary of creating paradoxes - like meeting themselves watching the sack of Rome, or sleeping with their own ancestors.Of course, it also...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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The year is 2381.The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts.The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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It is a thousand years from now.The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe. The climate has gone berserk. Rising oceans inundate swamps and deserts. Genetic engineers have yet to redesign the human body to cope with the crud in the air, the water, the food, the soil. Now time...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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It will be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. Fifty men and women are chosen to crew the Wotan. Their mission: to travel deep into the unknown galaxy in search of habitable worlds, to rekindle the dying human spirit. Their only contact with Earth is...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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The new millennium has barely begun when a vast fleet of alien vessels descends without warning on the Earth. Some starships blaze mighty trails of fire; some pop into view, unfathomably silent. Three different but equally strange kinds of alien emerge. Wide-eyed...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Identical twins Sean and Eric have been chosen for a daring experiment. One of them will travel into the distant past. The other into the distant future. But each swing of the time pendulum means they will be further and further apart.Will the experiment work? And if it...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren't selling like they used to. In fact, they aren't selling at all and the only alternative to winding the company up is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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Thirteen fantastical tales, including What Time Do You Call This? - a wildly ironic story about a bank robber who shuttles to an alternate universe and runs into himself. Communication - a modest plan by a shaman spiritualist gets out of hand when the dead begin to...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS
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For Mavin, coming of age as a shape-shifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Mahlia Ettison thought she had left terror behind. But the quiet community she thinks of as sanctuary hides an ancient evil - voodoo magic that steals lives and souls from the most innocent: children.The bones rise from their mud-clogged grave, bringing visions of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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A brilliant collection of original stories.A predatory alien accidentally teleported to Earth.A mad scientist and his imprisoned ghost.A space traveller returns to face an accusation of murder.

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Defying time, Jack Breton crosses into a parallel world to regain Kate - the wife who, nine years earlier, was found raped and strangled in a lonely park. But, in the alternate time-stream Kate is married to his double, John. And for one husband to remain either Jack or...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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The Price of Eternal LifeIn the 22nd Century, no one had to die of old age: an immortality drug was available to all. Its only drawback was the side-effect that ended a man's sex drive, so most men waited till their youth was fading before they took the final step and...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars - but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonisation, and trade became things of reality.The benefits to Earth were enormous but, because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out to space could never...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Shrouded by its shell of drifting lunar fragments, the planet Mnemosyne is a refuge for creative artists and poets, a place isolated from the desperate, losing struggle of the humans against the Syccans.But then COMsac, theFederation's High Command, come to Mnemosyne,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth's tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System.And discovers the almost unimaginably vast spherical structure soon to become famous as 'Orbitsville' - a new home for Earth's huddled masses.Behind Garamond...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials
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It was many, many years ago that humans came and settled the world of Newholme - cruelly bending the planet to their will; setting down roots and raising up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess.But now the ground itself is shaking with ever-increasing...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29

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