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Kurt Vonnegut cites Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for his character Kilgore Trout. This volume includes 12 stories from 1953, considered Sturgeon's golden era. Among them are such favorites as the title story, "The Silken-Swift," "A Way of Thinking," "The Dark...
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Gateway
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2013-10-02
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By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards, this latest volume finds Theodore Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer. Written between 1957 and 1960, when Sturgeon and...
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Gateway
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2013-10-02
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The second volume of the Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after which he suffered five years of writer's block. Showcasing Sturgeon's early penchant for fantasy, the first six selections include whimsical ghost...
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Gateway
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2013-10-02
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James Blish called him the "finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced." Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor. Theodore Sturgeon was...
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Gateway
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2013-10-02
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The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award...
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Orbit UK
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2013-10-01
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Imperial Radch
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A thousand years in the future, mankind's influence expands into the universe. Alastair Reynolds' epic vision of our journey into deep space will redefine Space Opera.Chiku Yellow is earthbound: living a peaceful life on a changing world as humanity explores a thousand...
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Gollancz
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2013-09-26
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Out of body, out of time...Though basically a skeptic, William Reynolds had known out-of-body experiences in the past. But never before had he floated past the boundaries of Baltimore . . . and across the borders of time. And now, with the fires of Civil War looming on...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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Best known for his Hugo Award-winning classic A Case of Conscience, Blish was one of the first serious SF writers to involve themselves with tie-in novels, writing eleven Star Trek adaptations as well as the first original adult Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die. This...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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On an ecologically seared Earth, James Konteau is a veteran krono, a professional time traveler. His job is to ease the overpopulation crisis by establishing new colonies in Earth's prehistory, long before human beings evolved. But his job has lost all meaning, for...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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Space Captain Tabitha Jute is the hero of the solar system. She has defeated the Capellan overlords and liberated the gigantic alien spaceship known as Plenty. Now begins the first human voyage to another star -a journey that will take the strange ship and her motley...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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Gateway Essentials
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World-saver, or world-breaker?The treaty that ended the civil war decreed that the men of science and the followers of the gods would split all of society between them. Yet Guild apprentice Pol was torn between the logic of science and the lure of faith, unaware that...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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When the American bomber crashed in the jungles of enemy-held Sumatra, the survivors faced the perils of a completely unknown world...and the RAF colonel who had flown with them as observer seemed to compound their danger by going mad - stripping to a loincloth and...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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TARZAN
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One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!It split wide open, and above them was a burn and a blaze of light - so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to have burst into flame. Then...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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Gateway Essentials
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The conflict between the King of Ys and the gods growing, with increasingly devastating results. It is becoming impossible to balance the demands of his own god, Mithras, with those of the gods of Ys, as they demand that he marry his daughter, which is forbidden by his...
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Gateway
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2013-09-24
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KING OF YS
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Cadogan Penn is a would-be movie mogul, who hopes he's on the way up. Tischia White is perfect for the Dean Mance's movie "Girl by Pool", if onlyCadogan could connect with Mance without his mother calling him. ThenCadogan discovers the shoebox, in which people see...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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He had no name, no language, no friends.He had not been born and he could not multiply.He had just 'Happened' - an accidental combination of atoms that could think and learn and do a lot of incredible things.He had floated free in space for billions of years, for all he...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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The beautiful young daughter of a wealthy family is robbed of her money and jewels, and she herself disappears soon after... A young man fleeing a band of murderous hobos becomes the target of a lynch mob... Frozen to silent rigidity, they sat straining every faculty to...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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The sequel to the only SF novel to sweep all SF awards and one of the bestsellers of all timeIn 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system.The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind - but most...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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Gateway Essentials
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You have a view of the Pacific from your woodframe house out at Palos Verdes.You have the car with the Zen silence engineered in, and the cool drive up the coast to your studio office on the 23rd floor.You have the occasional blonde in your bed and more money than you...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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Everyone at the Academy knew that sea serpents were, without a doubt, silly superstitions.Everyone but David Craken, that is. This young cadet from Marinia had been born and raised four miles beneath the waves, and he knew that more than rich new fuel sources and...
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Gateway
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2013-08-29
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