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Originally written as a play and performed at the Mermaid Theatre, Easter 1962.It is the early 20th century. Man is seeking signs of life elsewhere in the universe, but all exploratory ships have been lost without a trace - except for DSP15. Thirty years after leaving...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Returning to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge after a spell at the nuclear research labs of CERN in Geneva, Professor Isaac Newton is plunged into the centre of a baffling mystery. One of his research students, Mike Howarth, has picked up strange signals on his...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Dr John West, Cambridge don and private investigator, was present at the trial of an odd duck, R. A. Adcock, who was being most uncooperative in answering questions about a bank robbery. At length, Adcock had made a dash for it from the courtroom - through a glass...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Cameron, a tall, testy, whisky-drinking, nationalist-minded, Scottish physicist, may not have been an astronomer, but he knew the off things in the sky when he saw them. From an Australian mountaintop where he was advising on the location of a radiotelescope he saw what...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Young Peter, a student of Byzantine art forms at Moscow University, through a cryptic sentence in a lecture receives a message to buy two books of his choice at exactly 1.30 pm in the university bookstore. When he opens the package, a third book, 'The Life of Pushkin',...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Sequel to Rockets in Ursa MajorFrom a great distance the Yela's recorded message crackled through on the micro-earpiece: 'For the time being you have won. But I am not defeated so easily.'That had been three years ago, after Dick Warboys had repulsed the invading Yela...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Can immortal man ever outwit the airlines? What if dumb animals could be trained to 'appreciate' the communications media of the human world? How does Number 38, Zone 11, respond when he sees a U.F.O? What happens to Slippage City when the Devil decides to think big?...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
Format(s) : ePub
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The Westminster Disaster is based on the present world shortage of high-grade uranium and the action turns on a Soviet threat to use nuclear blackmail against London.When the British Ambassador to the U.N. seeks to veto a Soviet demand for sanctions against South...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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Mike Jerome, a likeable young TV writer, visits Professor Smitt, a physicist, who gives him an idea for a TV script: using some source of light, perhaps a laser beam, one could reduce the human structure to a form that could be transmitted into the future as electrical...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-06-24
Collection :
Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
Format(s) : ePub
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NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESNemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power...
Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2015-06-02
Collection :
Expanse
Format(s) : ePub
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They left Sol in two great ships, carrying with them the last hope for humankind. Destined for different stars, their mission was to ensure the survival of our species. One ship was never heard from again. Decades later, the other arrived at a lifeless world, where the...
Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2015-05-28
Format(s) : ePub
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In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition - one that...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-05-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told.Jaro's life...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Format(s) : ePub
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Ashlin had been climbing Mt Timbrini for more than a decade. Scaling the huge, befogged escarpment he liked to gaze down upon the city of Emera glittering below like a thousand multicoloured moons.But when horrifying visions of gaps in the fabric of sky above the...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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The Earth teemed with life of all kinds, and many besides man had intelligence and the gift of speech. But chaos ruled. And violence. And despair. Then, in the Valley of the Dead, Sheen first entered the world, and all of the life would bend to the might of the Supreme...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
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Blood was what they called that mountain town and the forbidding land around it - and the name was significant. Folks there knew a secret that would have shocked the world...but nobody was ever going to get out ofBlood to tell. Not even when Portia Clark arrived, hot on...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Were those strange episodes of retribution the work of a time-traveling man of honor - or a power-mad avenger?
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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When the girl from the asylum drowned in the lake that night, she thought it was the end of her life, but she was wrong. With robots at fifty thousand dollars a unit, it was far more economical to use corpse labour - all it took was a two-thousand dollar animating pack...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a young man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth...But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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John Crowley evokes, with absolute precision, the ordinary-and not so ordinary-moments that reflect and illuminate the essential nature of family life. Moving gracefully back and forth between the imaginary planet Brxx and our own familiar Earth, this deeply affecting...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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