'Thought-provoking and entertaining, this highly original first-contact story should please any science fiction reader.' - School Library Journal'Mind-expanding science fiction at its best; it is no surprise that it has been shortlisted for all the main science fiction...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
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'He is writing revolutionary science fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky.' - Kim Stanley Robinson'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg' - ASIMOV'S SFIn a newer world order where the peace process is deadlier...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Fall Revolutions ePub

'Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.' - SALON'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution,...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Fall Revolutions ePub

'Stylish, witty, and engaging!' - San Diego Union Tribune'Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.' - Romantic Times BookclubThe Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away....

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-06-07
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'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats . . . fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel; new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention' - SUNDAY TIMES'Polymathic, visionary brilliance' - FINANCIAL...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-05-24
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From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2012-05-22
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...He heard a shout, distant and ringing, "No, Carson! Not that door!"Something green writhed in through that door. Something gaseous, billowing, filling the chamber faster and faster, something that caught at his throat and gagged him, made him wretch, brought...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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A collection of some of Jack Vance's best short fiction, containing:Golden GirlMasquerade on DicantropusAbercrombie StationCholwell's ChickensThe MitrThe World BetweenWhen the Five Moons RiseMeet Miss UniverseThe Insufferable Red-headed Daughter of Commander Tynnott,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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In the reaches of Mircea's Whips the convoluted plots and politics that have swirled around the House of Clattuc and the Conservancy of Cadwal are beginning to unravel. But what remains for Glawen Clattuc to discover could bring down a dozen powerful families on as many...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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Arrabus on the planet Wyst is an "egalistic" nation, where everyone is supposedly equal to everyone else. Arrabins work only two hours per week ("drudge"), which is drawn at random each week. In return, they receive food in the form of gruff, deedle, and wobbly - all...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures. "The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which greatly...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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Life had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy. For as the system moved it swept up cosmic dust and debris. Ice ages and periods of tropical warmth followed one another very quickly. Meteors large and small fell...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-16
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John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And OddJohn has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-04-12
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years.Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-19
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Arthur C. Clarke's classic in which he ponders humanity's future and possible evolutionWhen the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-19
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both the HUGO AWARD and the NEBULA AWARDIn the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-19
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter,Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-19
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-05
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2012-03-05
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

The technology to download the consciousnesses of pilots into multiple clones, the Capsuleers, has finally delivered the dream of immortal soldiers. Train a soldier just once and then however many times he dies he will keep on getting more experienced, more battle...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2012-02-16
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