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The generation ship Peerless is suffering from a population explosion, and the only way to reduce the number of children is by drastically limiting the females' food intake. So population control consists of two barbaric choices: starvation, or suicide.Trying to find a...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2012-10-18
Collection :
ORTHOGONAL
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The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga.The protagonists parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the "demon princes". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one by one. In the process Vance does what he excels at: creating strange worlds,...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
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SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF MYERTA! A small pastoral village is invaded without warning by the armies of a distant empire sweeping across the world. Facing mortal danger for the first time in their history, the villagers must forge a pact with the strange and fearsome...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
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One Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas . . . Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
ePub
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On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2012-09-27
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-09-18
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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The Tithonian Factor takes us into the 22nd century and introduces the sempiterns, people who a hundred years or more earlier have taken a drug which confers a kind of immortality, but at an unexpected price.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-09-18
ePub
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Kaeti branches out, moves farther from her beloved London. In the process she makes a whole range of new, intriguing friends; and lands herself in some scrapes startling even by her standards. The shadows she sprays on the pavement of a Thames Valley town come alive to...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-09-18
ePub
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Welcome to a haunted world; the world of Keith Roberts' powerful and unique imagination. These stories show Roberts' fascination for the curious and unclassifiable; and as ever, his mastery of character and detail. 'Susan' introduces the reader to a schoolgirl with...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-09-18
ePub
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Set in the Old West, this is the strange, magical tale of Sarah Canary and the ragtag band of misfits and lovers she trails in her wakeWhen black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-09-13
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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At last as they reached out through the ghostly transparencies of the galaxy the men from Earth encountered an alien race completely non-human in appearance. They were the real aliens. Their physiology differed gruesomely from Terrans' - could men hope their psychology...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
ePub
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WANTED: ONE ENGINEERFOR MANAGERIAL POSITION IN IRUNIUM.WAGES HIGH. DEATH BENEFITS SUDDEN."I am the Contessa Perdita di Montevarchi. Here in Irunium the only law is my will."I shall seek out another engineer. But this time he will be a real engineer from a dimension that...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
ePub
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The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
Collection :
Golden Age Masterworks
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This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted nuclear doom. The other is the distant world of Mollan, whose inhabitants have achieved great longevity...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
ePub
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The opening ofThe Fugitive Worlds finds Toller Maraquine II - grandson of the hero ofThe Ragged Astronauts andThe Wooden Spaceships - bemoaning the fact that life on the twin planets of Land and Overland has become dull and uneventful compared to the stirring times in...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
Collection :
LAND AND OVERLAND
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There are too many men in a world governed by women. They're bored and disillusioned and often resort to 'suicide missions' - jobs in experimental space research. Jorn applies for such a job, is selected and trained as a navigator for the huge ship Javelin, the first to...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
ePub
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AWAKEN, TERROR!When the first expedition descended to the bottom of the Atlantic in a perfected high-pressure diving bell, their speculation ran wild as to the wonders they would encounter in that unknown sea-bottom world.But their wildest dreams did not prepare them...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
ePub
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EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream:An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe. Somewhere in the...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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It is an age of omnipotent machines; of a vast, megalopolis with hover-cars tied into an electronic traffic control, pedways and monorails...It is an age, too, of ultimate detectives. Robin Carver was one of the best on Ridforce. Connecting with the dying brains of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-07-16
ePub
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CODE NAME POSTERThe first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought. In spite of paranoid security restrictions, Justin Williams and Cinnamon Wright, co-inventors of the device, counted on it to revolutionise civilisation and gain them an...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-07-16
ePub
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