The Final Encyclopedia tells of the events which occur when the human race is split into three splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

Donal Graeme set out to re-shape the galaxy, but first he must tear it apart.Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - and something even...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds of miles away.Julian Class is one of...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

More even than space travel, the Stileman Process had altered twenty-first century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensured that every ten years or so, the ailing aging body could be restored to youthful vigour and health.There was a catch of course. The...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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This volume includes Vance's first published story ("The World-Thinker") and a selection of other stories including the novella "Telek".Contents: The World-Thinker, Dream Castle ("I'll Build Your Dream Castle"), Seven Exits from Bocz, The God and the Temple Robber...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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The gigantic world known as Big Planet had become a wilderness of strange peoples and weird cultures as a result of having been the dumping ground for every crackpot and malcontent that ever emigrated from the Earth. Somewhere in its unmapped vastness a plot was being...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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A space opera is what science fiction readers call an adventure in outer space and on alien planets. But a space opera could also be an opera, a musical work, that originated in outer space...Jack Vance's unique novel SPACE OPERA fits both definitions marvelously!...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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In the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities that echoed with the vastness of the world's history, science, myth and magic had become one. Sorcerors who read the books of ancient...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

In the Foreword, writing fifty years ago, the author describes his vision of a new space age; he predicts that by 1985 the age of space piracy will begin and that a Space Navy will be established, speculating that some of his younger readers might participate: "I hope...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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The Rapparee is Jack Vance's preferred title for the novel previously published asThe Space Pirate andThe Five Gold Bands.Five gold bracelets imprinted with cryptic messages were the clues that set Paddy Blackthorn off on a riotous galactic treasure hunt. But Paddy...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
Collection : S.F. MASTERWORKS ePub

Terry Carr has been called the editor with impeccable taste, the man who knows which stories will be Hugo and Nebula award winners months before he puts them in his justly famous Best SF of the Year series. There are 15 stories in this anthology. Judge for yourself. He...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-11-14
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All seven books set in the REVELATION SPACE universe, now collected in one bundleNine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2011-10-20
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"Mytilene," he told them, "is a pleasure world. Or, rather, I should say worlds. You can fly from any planet to any other in the atmosphere."The whole ball, which is much larger than Jupiter, is held together by electromagnetic forces created and maintained by the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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The devastated Earth had only a handful of inhabitants - now even their future was in the balance.The Twenty-Second Century had been and gone - and with it, the worst war in the bloody history of mankind: the War of the Black Rising.The Earth was devastated, the moon...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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ZAKYM: World of the night-rulers and the day people. A world teetering on the edge of nightmare.The Cyclan orders were clear - 'Find Dumarest. Find him before war erupts on ZAKYM.' But Zakym could hold the key to Dumarest's search for his lost home planet - and for that...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Dumarest Saga ePub

Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thousand years. What...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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BUG-EYED MONSTERS ON BROADWAYPulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away.But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Gateway Essentials ePub

"Welcome to the circus of Chen Wei! A spectacle of marvels culled from a thousand worlds! Things that will fill you with rapture!"There could be little to surprise Dumarest. But Chen Wei's circus was special. It held Melome - the girl-child whose song could bring back...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
Collection : Dumarest Saga ePub

Masters of Everon, announces the brass plate on the door of the original Everon colonists' corporate headquarters. But somehow Everon resisted all their efforts; it was as if the planet itself fought against human efforts to establish a foothold. Some settlers want to...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-09-29
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