What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century, this is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope.'An...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story ¿Barnacle Bill the Spacer¿, about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as ¿Sports in America¿, about a man...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
ePub

"McAuley gives us a vision ..." - Matthew Cheney"...one of Paul J. McAuley's greatest works in fantasy and science fiction, demonstrating his great gifts in storytelling and writing" - Goodreads ReviewerAlex Sharkey is trying to make his mark as a biohacker - a designer...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Mars, 600 years in the future, is dying.Five hundred years after the Chinese conquered the Red Planet, the great work of terraforming is failing. The human-machine Consensus of Earth had persuaded the AI Emperor to follow the Golden Path into a vast virtual reality...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
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"[A] novel that combines exotic descriptions, slam-bang action and a mind-blowing secret history of the universe" - David Langford"Amazing story written with skill and literary excellence" - Goodreads ReviewerIn the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

A classic of political science fictionArslan is a young Asian general who has conquered the USA and then the world, with a small town in Illinois as the capital of his new empire.Praised by the likes of Orson Scott Card and Samuel R. Delany, ARSLAN is a thoughtful but...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-12-09
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

The critically acclaimed and bestselling sequel to HYPERION, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author ofThe Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-11-18
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.Joint winner of the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-11-11
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything.The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms....

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : QUANTUM GRAVITY ePub

Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright war.Adam Roberts is a new writer completely in command of the SF genre....

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-11-04
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Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even stranger world of Faerie. And these Faeries couldn't be less like Tinkerbell. These Faeries are capricious, unknowable and dangerous. And...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : QUANTUM GRAVITY ePub

Lila Black is going to Hell. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals ... and their worlds are open to us. Special AgentLila Black has been...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : QUANTUM GRAVITY ePub

Vinge's masterpieces together at last, in one epic volumeThe Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2010-10-21
ePub

Most people believe the Sidhe are long dead, exterminated centuries ago when the males of the race rose up and fought alongside the humans subjugated and enslaved by the female Sidhe. But Jarek Reen knows better: he's discovered, the painful way, that the Sidhe are...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-10-14
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Khesh City floats above the surface of the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. Topside, it's extravagant, opulent, luxurious; the Undertow is dark, twisted and dangerous.Khesh City is a place where nothing is forbidden - but it's also a democracy, of sorts, a democracy by...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-09-16
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Sprung from a prison in the centre of a star, the universe's last criminal is employed to kill the population of a planet. It is a crime that will tear apart an interstellar utopia. Keeping ahead of detection and preparing the crime, the killer voyages to numerous...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-09-09
ePub

Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life. And then one dayTighe falls off the wall. And falls, and...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-09-09
ePub

Adam Roberts' fourth novel is his most ambitious yet. In a feat of extraordinary world building he creates a universe where a breathable atmosphere extends out between the planets, where aristocrats cruise interstellar space in biplanes and skywhals make mysterious...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-09-09
ePub