Folsom's Planet - An Alien land yet so familiar.If the mission were a success,Folsom's planet would bear his name for eternity. The barbarians would be civilized; the planet would join the Federation; the Federation's integrity would be preserved.But Hans Folsom had to...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Who can resist the Final Trip?Earth in the twenty-third century is adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population, compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the technical wizardry of the Church of the Epiphany and the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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A staggering vision of Earth in the not-so-distant future. . .In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response. And if you pit...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision of the major issues...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Rhys Morgan and Jack Dawson are the last two boys on the school bus. It's the same everyday. But today will be different.Coming down the hill towards Wellthorpe, through a heavy snow laden day, the bus careers out of control and crashes.Into a river and a different...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Honor White Jackson was a human being. But his planet was not Earth, nor his time Now. His world was dominated by a giant Iron Thorn. Beyond the reach of this tower there was supposedly, nothing - except a frozen, airless desert where huge winged beasts called Amsirs...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Seven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing and plotting.

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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"Five of our worlds are missing". That was the essence of the report that shocked the galactic Nomads at their annual meeting. For each of the mighty star-ships reported vanished was a world of its own - a man-made, self-sustaining city-state housing thousands of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE ePub

When the Order of Planetary Engineers sent Hall Davenant to Ganymede for a terraforming survey, they knew that the job on the airless, frigid Jovian moon would be tough. Changing it to resemble Earth - with fertile land, water and good air - was the biggest and most...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE ePub

Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedom. Ythri was...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for voluntary exile to a...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Starfarers is the story of an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy, where answers to mankind's greatest questions await. The saga begins when evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers. "Trails" observed in the sky are thought to be...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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It is the dawn of a new era of space exploration and colonisation. Dagny Beynac, descendant of the legendary Anson Guthrie, becomes a heroine of a new Lunarian civilisation that struggles to break free of the influence of Earth.Centuries later, the entire solar system...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : HARVEST OF STARS ePub

The third volume in Anderson's saga about humanity's strife-ridden future among the stars.The complex rivalry between human and machine has continued for years. Events come to a head on Prospina, where the human poet Jesse Nicol finds his fate intertwined with that of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : HARVEST OF STARS ePub

The Fleet of Stars sees the return of Anson Guthrie, Poul Anderson's iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey across the realm of comets...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : HARVEST OF STARS ePub

You can't go home again. For home is not merely a place, but a situation and when that situation changes, home is no more. Captain Edward Langely of the experimental starship Explorer was to learn this the hard way...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries: the gates onto time are bitterly fought for and jealously guarded. Malcolm Lockridge is a...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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When the starship Meteor crash-landed on a strange world orbiting a solitary sun in the vast darkness outside the galaxy, her crew of Earthmen had no idea of what to expect. The planet was Earthlike in gravity, air, animal and vegetable life - but what of the native...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Early in the 21st century the world is enjoying an uneasy peace, with a distinct division between the "straight" society and the various fringe groups that go to form the Byworld.Tension grows, however, over the presence of an alien spaceship that is orbiting the world,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Jack Havig seemed like an ordinary man. But since he was a small child he had kept a frightening and exhilarating secret. He was a born time-traveller - a man who could cross the centuries just by willing himself to.Over the years, he had investigated the past - from...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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