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Orbitsville
Orbitsville Book 1
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth''s tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System. And discovers the almost unimaginably vast spherical structure soon to become famous as ''Orbitsville'' - a new home for Earth''s huddled masses. Behind Garamond comes Earth''s space …
Medusa's Children
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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What unfathomed secrets lay sleeping in this eerie world of water? The Clan knew almost nothing about the giant sphere of water they inhabited, and even less about the sun and planets nearby in space. Living amidst a cluster of nets anchored to the roots of a giant plant, they were aware only of …
Orbitsville Judgement
Orbitsville Book 3
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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Orbitsville is the scene of two of Bob Shaw''s most successful novels and is possibly the most gigantic artefact ever dreamed up by an SF writer - a vast hollow world completely enclosing its sun, habitable across its entire inner surface. At the end of ORBITSVILLE DEPARTURE the whole world was …
Who Goes Here?
Warren Peace Book 1
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Shot at by aliens, eaten up by monsters, frozen up, burned up and shipped all over the galaxy¿ war was one game Private Peace didn''t want to play. So why had he joined the Space Legion? Warren Peace had joined the Space Legion to forget - exactly what, he hadn''t the faintest idea. But he was sure …
Warren Peace: Dimensions
Warren Peace Book 2
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Warren Peace joined the Space Legion to forget - and forget what it was he wanted to forget. In his quest to find out who he''d been he got turned into an Oscar by a symbiotic alien parasite. Oscars are invulnerable superbeings, immune to everything and with no need for air, food or drink, let …
Ragged Astronauts
Land and Overland Book 1
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Land and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species, the ptertha, has declared war on humankind, and is actively hunting for victims. The only hope lies in migration. Through space to Overland. By balloon. The …
Wooden Spaceships
Land and Overland Book 2
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
44 kr
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Twenty-four years have passed since Toller Maraquine led the population of Land to the sister planet of Overland. Somehow, those left behind have become immune to the deadly pterthacosis which caused the exodus, and their voracious ruler now lays claim to Overland. Grudgingly put in charge of his …
Fugitive Worlds
Land and Overland Book 3
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
44 kr
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The opening of The Fugitive Worlds finds Toller Maraquine II - grandson of the hero of The Ragged Astronauts and The Wooden Spaceships - bemoaning the fact that life on the twin planets of Land and Overland has become dull and uneventful compared to the stirring times in which his illustrious …
Night Walk
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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For ''refusing to co-operate'' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon''s eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp from which nobody ever escaped. But then Tallon invented a way of seeing - ludicrous, agonizing, yet still a way to make escape possible. He ''saw'' …
Shadow of Heaven
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Those who tried never returned, and those who didn''t, always wondered what they were missing by not attempting the perilous journey to ''Heaven''. The official designation of the giant anti-gravity floating disc was ''International Land Extension U.S.23''. But to the people living like sardines in …
Wreath of Stars
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Thornton''s Planet is an anti-neutrino planet detected on its approach to Earth. It can be seen only through the newly developed magniluct lenses and its arrival causes a wave of panic. When its course carries it past the earth, interest in Thornton''s Planet wanes. Then comes news from the African …
Ship of Strangers
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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The chronicle of adventures of the survey ship Sarafand as it journeys through space exploring and mapping newly-discovered planets. The mission brings them into contact with man startling life-forms and menacing aliens. On one world the Sarafand sends out six survey modules and seven return: one …
Vertigo
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Rob Hasson was an Air Patrolman, one of the best, until the day someone jumped him in mid-air and sent him hurtling into a fall that should have killed him. Now his mind, still tormented by memories of the shrieking air and rushing ground, protects his patched-together body by refusing to let him …
Dagger of the Mind
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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''The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...'' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question his own sanity... A member of a telepathic …
Ceres Solution
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted nuclear doom. The other is the distant world of Mollan, whose inhabitants have achieved great longevity and the power to transport …
Two Timers
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Defying time, Jack Breton crosses into a parallel world to regain Kate - the wife who, nine years earlier, was found raped and strangled in a lonely park. But, in the alternate time-stream Kate is married to his double, John. And for one husband to remain either Jack or John must die.
Palace of Eternity
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Shrouded by its shell of drifting lunar fragments, the planet Mnemosyne is a refuge for creative artists and poets, a place isolated from the desperate, losing struggle of the humans against the Syccans. But then COMsac, theFederation''s High Command, come to Mnemosyne, and suddenly the planet is …
One Million Tomorrows
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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The Price of Eternal Life In the 22nd Century, no one had to die of old age: an immortality drug was available to all. Its only drawback was the side-effect that ended a man''s sex drive, so most men waited till their youth was fading before they took the final step and became "cools." But Will …
Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Thirteen fantastical tales, including What Time Do You Call This? - a wildly ironic story about a bank robber who shuttles to an alternate universe and runs into himself. Communication - a modest plan by a shaman spiritualist gets out of hand when the dead begin to contact him. And Isles Where Good …
Cosmic Kaleidoscope
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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The second collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of Orbitsville. Nine stories demonstrate Shaw''s superb imaginative range and cynically humorous approach to the world of the future. Skirmish on a Summer Morning Unreasonable Facsimile A Full Member of the Club The Silent …
Better Mantrap
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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A brilliant collection of original stories. A predatory alien accidentally teleported to Earth. A mad scientist and his imprisoned ghost. A space traveller returns to face an accusation of murder.
Orbitsville Departure
Orbitsville Book 2
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Two hundred years ago mankind found Orbitsville, a vast sphere whose habitable inner surface comprised living space equivalent to five billion Earths. The resulting migration was enthusiastic - and nearly total. Earth itself is a backwater now, a place with which the people of Orbitsville maintain …
Fire Pattern
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reation is to ridicule the idea - but he is not able to back out of doing the story. To his own surprise, he becomes fascinated by the phenomenon of people …
Peace Machine
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Lucas Hutchman is the Ground Zero Man The man who has his finger on the button, the man who can destroy the world - or save it, the man whose own life suddenly has no value, unless he can make the governments of Earth understand that he is the absolute master of the ultimate doomsday device - a …
Killer Planet
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Remote, mysterious and deadly, Verdia is a world from which no one has ever returned. But Jan Hazard is convinced his brother could still be alive and Petra knows Jan can''t make it alone...on the Killer Planet. Together they go in search for survivors - only to find themselves the next victims, …
Bob Shaw SF Gateway Omnibus
Orbitsville, The Ragged Astronauts, A Wreath of Stars
Av Bob Shaw
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the work of the award-winning Bob Shaw. Best known for his extraordinary novel of ''slow glass'', Other Days, Other Eyes , Bob Shaw was a fan favourite at …
Ticket to Glide: The Twin Cities' 50 Best Spots for Kayaking
Av Bob Shaw
Häftad, 2023
221 kr
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