'You are an artificially constructed human being, a mobile gathering device.' That is what the computer's metallic voice tells Tanner when it releases him from his cell. Naked, unarmed, with no memory to guide him, he emerges into a savage world, into the ruins of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-31
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Makstarn was ugly, an outcast in the midst of the beautiful people of his tribe. Where they were tall and slender, he was short and squat. Where they were golden, touched with the beauty of the dawn, he was black and hairy . . . and hated by those of his own generation....

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-31
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This is the strange, compelling story of Roger Bacon. Ambitious, impatient, mutinous, Bacon was a man of his times with a vision reaching far beyond even our own day. Subject to the harsh, narrow confines of Church-dominated 'science', Bacon dared to venture into the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-31
Collection : AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE ePub

The inhabitants of Terra nicknamed them "Angels". They were exquisitely beautiful, these shimmering, fiery creatures , highly intelligent and playful. Yet they were awesome, too, considering that the youngest were four million years old, and the oldest had probably...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-31
Collection : HEART STARS ePub

Doubleluck...Home...with its streets of flowing gold, waterfalls of diamonds, lakes of perfume - and its deadly curse! Jade is the one human with the will to challenge all odds and find the key to save her species. Fellow creatures fear her ability to dream. The...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-31
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

In the royal palace of conquered Luscany, Princess Nette chafes at the bonds that confine her to a life of empty ceremony. Meanwhile, in a less salubrious quarter, Serin Guille's father scents success in his search for the secret of immortality. Then a gypsy blade...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-27
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Following the 'Plenty' trilogy, this book contains a collection of the adventures of Tabitha Jute and her motley crew. Xtasca the Cherub and Saskia are just two of the popular characters featured.This collection is not only focused on Jute and her companions - also...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-27
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Lord Tedric of the Marshes, ex-Corpsman and interplanetary warrior, faces a crucial mission: to crush the threat of the Destructive Forces by capturing their agent on the Bioman sphere, the ruthless Black Knight Fra Villion Tedric's crew are bound together by the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-27
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The world of the future is in a lot of trouble. Pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations dying. Still, for international businesses it is business as usual. It is better to be rich. But is it all...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-27
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In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-27
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The future of mankind is in the hands of the legendary Corps of One Hundred, an elite body of warriors, selected and trained for the greatest honours in the empire of man. But there is something different about Tedric, the strange Corpsman who is not of this earth. ...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

"Reading Delany is like pop rocks for the brain. He scintillates. Things sparkle and explode all over, and it's not entirely comfortable but it is quite wonderful" - Jo Walton, Reactor Magazine"extremely subtle ... and enigmatic ... first rate scifi" - Amazon Reviewer,...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

When Argo, the White Goddess, orders it Geo, the itinerant poet, and his three disparate companions journey to the island of Aptor to seize a jewel from the dark god, Hama, and return it to Argo so that she may defeat the malign forces ranged against her and the land of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

IT WAS EXTERMINATION DAY - THE REMAINING MEN WERE TO BE HUNTED DOWNRura Alexandra, Madam Exterminator, had recently graduated into a 25th century world where men had become biologically less important, where women could reproduce as they wished by cloning and...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
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THE HARD-CORE SCIENCE OF HAL CLEMENTThe supreme practitioner of "hard" science fiction, Hal Clement combines ingenious problem-solving with suspenseful drama and action. These ten stories show the mastery of science and fiction that Clement has displayed in such...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

About two centuries from now, the human race on Earth is in trouble, perhaps even facing extinction, because of the rapid evolution of diseases.A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
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On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, appalling tornadoes...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

Immortal, unchanging, the external survivor, Nathan Brazil had tired of his long duty as the guardian of the Well World and had enlisted Mavra Chang, space pilot and adventurer, as his companion and equal, sharing with her some of the godlike power to control the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
Collection : Watchers at the Well ePub

Twenty-five years ago there was a great interplanetary war in the Solar System. It was a suicidal spasm in which terrible weapons were created and used; in which nine billion people were killed. The rivalries that led to the war are not gone. And a few of those deadly...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-20
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Carson Napier set out for Mars in a secret interplanetary rocket but found himself instead on a different world - the cloud-hidden planet of Venus. Venus was a startling world - semi-private, semi-civilised. It was a place of unmapped oceans dotted with great islands; a...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2013-05-13
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub