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The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales of over 70...
Editeur :
Gollancz
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2012-11-08
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'Set a thief to catch a thief' goes the old saying. And when you are the richest man in the Universe and someone is systematically robbing your various banks blind you'd better set the best thief ever to catch your thief. After all, even at four million credits a day...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2012-10-29
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Gateway Essentials
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Assembled here are fourteen of Harrison's best, spanning time and space from the England of old to empires millennia from now. Among the stories included are "The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat," in which the cops have finally caught up with an aging Slippery...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2012-10-29
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Gateway Essentials
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Jonathan Herovit is a science fiction writer in a state of deep personal and professional crisis. Whilst struggling to deal with his wife's post-partum depression, his own alcoholism and a long-overdue novel that he has no motivation to write, the pseudonym under which...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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BARWORLD! For all the years that BILL had served in the Troopers, with all the hard beds, hard heads and no creds, any booze on offer was probably embalming fluid, or worse. BARWORLD! An assignment there promised bubbly, brandy and beer galore - enough to give BILL's...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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He's the perfect starship trooper: big, strong, and not too bright.He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (it's one of the body parts that's still his own.)Tsuris, the Mystery Plane, has a mysterious secret weapon, and Bill must get it....
Editeur :
Gateway
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2012-10-15
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BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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BILL - the army's made him what he is today - the perfect Starship Trooper, proud possess of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion. BILL - this time he's really put his foot (the Swiss-Army one with the special attachments, secret...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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THE TRILOGY CONCLUDES... In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with his most ambitious project to date. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived,...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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It was totally impossible for Cliaand to wage interstellar war...but the crazy little planet was winning, whatever the odds. And there wasn't much the peaceful galaxy could do...except send Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - to wage his own kind of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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Bill would give his right arm to defend his Emperor against the alien Chingers - which is lucky seeing as he has two of them... War demands sacrifices, and if you've lot one left arm, have an artificial foot and a set of nifty surgically-implanted tusks, it's a small...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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BILL - the perfect Starship Trooper: big, brawny, and brainwashed. Possessor of two right arms (impressive when it comes to saluting) and a foot that is threatening to turn into something more suited to being an umbrella stand than anything that could be squeezed into a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
Collection :
BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-15
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BILL THE GALACTIC HERO
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The tenth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost...
Editeur :
Orbit
Parution :
2012-10-04
Collection :
Culture
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THE DREAD RETURNSJon Meriweather, plucked from his own world to a place where animals walk, talk and cast spells, is pitted once more against a deadly foe. Now he and his strange fellowship must embark on a journey from which none has survived.His way lies down the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-20
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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In the far future, it has become possible in advanced psychotherapy for a man to be given dreams as vivid as reality in which he may play any part he chooses. If that man were inclined to see his life as a struggle between good and evil, and if he were blessed with a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-08-06
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The seventh book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series by Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' - HeraldThe BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-07-12
Collection :
Thursday Next
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For the last time, the dwarves are going to war - and the outcome will decide the fate of their race. There has been no word from the brave warrior Tungdil since the vicious battle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the malevolent älfar have advanced far into...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2012-07-05
Collection :
Dwarves
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In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-07-02
Collection :
Golden Age Masterworks
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FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . ' NEW YORK TIMES'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2012-06-07
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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The Stars and Stripes trilogy is the story of the war that never was, but might so easily have happened: the war of the 1860s between the United States of America and the British Empire. It began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-04-16
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