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Charles Sheffield SF Gateway Omnibus
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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Physicist and writer Charles Sheffield very quickly built a reputation for imaginative, cleverly-plotted hard SF. In his second novel he posited the concept of a space elevator simultaneously to - but independent of - Arthur C. Clarke. This omnibus contains three of his finest works: debut novel, …
Sight of Proteus
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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In the 22nd century a combination of computer-augmented bio-feedback and chemo-therapy techniques has given man the ability not only to heal himself, but to change himself - to alter his very shape at will. But Form Change has its darker aspects, ranging from unautorized experimentation on human …
Proteus Unbound
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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There were problems with the Form Change process. One or two malfunctions at first: people emerging from the tanks in an incorrect form or completely unchanged. For three years it had been getting worse. Now there had been deaths, and on the Space Farms panic was setting in. People were refusing to …
Proteus in the Underworld
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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In the 22nd century biofeedback techniques to control by will the processes of one''s own body have reached their ultimate expression: the ability to transform the body into virtually any viable form whatsoever. What began as an innocent technique to reduce anxiety without recourse to drugs has …
Summertide
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Set more than four thousand years in the future, Summertide introduces a galaxy widely populated by humans and a variety of intelligent aliens, all of whom live in the shadow of the vanished race known only as the Builders. Nothing is known about the Builders, but the gigantic artifacts they have …
Divergence
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races had studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as Builders. But for all that study, they were still no closer to figuring out who - or what - the Builders had been, or where they had gone. Then, on the world …
Transcendence
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The Zardalu were the greatest menace ever known to the worlds of the spiral arm, enslaving entire races and exterminating others, guided by an unswerving belief in their own supremacy. Then their slaves rose up against them, and for eleven thousand years the Zardalu had been extinct and the spiral …
Convergence
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Humans first reached out to the stars travelling at a painfully slow sublight crawl - then they found the Bose network, which allowed ships to jump instantaneously from one node in the galactic arm to another. Once in the Network they found the Artifacts: enigmatic structures, millions of years …
Cold As Ice
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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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 weapons remain - some still …
Ganymede Club
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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Lola Belman was a refugee. She and her younger brother were on one of the last ships to leave Earth as the bombs began to fall; by the time they left lunar orbit, they were orphans. Lola is now practicing as a therapist on Ganymede, and she has a new patient whose past is a mystery. During those …
Dark As Day
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War - a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race - and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, is growing. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has …
Mind Pool
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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In the 23rd Century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars - not so much because we''re smart, but because we are incredibly gadget-orientated. We are also, compared to the galaxy''s highest sophisticated norms, very, very tough, …
Spheres of Heaven
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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Spacer Chan Dalton is torn between two masters. The pacifist aliens who hold Earth under Quarantine want him to find out why their starships have been disappearing in the Geyser Swirl, the Bermuda Triangle of the galaxy. Earth''s military, which has secretly discovered a way to break the …
Aftermath
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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It''s 2026, and the Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation and disease paralyze the planet. A flash of gamma rays has destroyed all microchips worldwide, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, …
Starfire
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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The end draws nigh....The year is 2053, and Earth has barely recovered from the Alpha Centauri supernova that destroyed much of the planet''s infrastructure. Now the supernova''s residual effect - a storm of high-energy particles - is racing toward Earth, and an international effort has been …
Web Between the Worlds
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Rob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why "The King of Space" had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever - even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power... Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American …
My Brother's Keeper
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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Lionel Salkind was glad for a visit from his twin brother Leo; the two rarely saw each other. Tehn their plane went down, and as he lost consciousness Lionel knew that Leo was dead. Lionel woke up in a hospital, to the eerie news that he owed his life to bits of his dead brother''s brain …
Between the Strokes of Night
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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In the 277th century, Earth is dead, but mankind survives in colonies scattered across the galaxy. To these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days - and who use their strange powers to control the …
Brother to Dragons
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The power of one... Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man. Job. Born on he bottom rung in an age that made ours seem Golden, his life went rapidly downhill from there. Job. Cast adrift into a world he never made, but would change forever. Job. Sometimes, one true man can …
Godspeed
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Cut off suddenly, unexpectedly, from interstellar trade, the colony of Erin found itself confined to the slow in-system shuttles and asteroid miners that were the only spaceships left at Muldoon Port. The human population slowly dwindled, unable to thrive in Erin''s marginal ecosystem. Jay Hara …
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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A man from Earth''s distant past is humanity''s only hope for a future...Drake Merlin''s wife, the love of his life, is dying of a rare, fatal disease for which there is no cure. Not now, in the 21st century. But surely in the future...For Drake there is only one solution: have Ana''s body frozen …
Trader's World
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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A Trader had no home - yet was at home everywhere. From the Chill settlements to Cap City, from the Strine Interior to the Darklands and out to the space colonies, the Traders were always on the move. They did the deals, turned contacts into contracts. They collected information, exchanged …
Compleat McAndrew
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The brain of an Einstein - the mind of an engineer... Presenting the space adventures of Arthur Morton McAndrew, space-time expert and scientist extraordinaire, and his long-suffering companion, spaceship skipper Jeanie Roker. Jeanie first met McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned …
Space Suits
Being the Selected Legal Papers of Waldo Burmeister and Henry Carver, Attorneys-At-Law
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Lawyers in space?! Well, yes. It''s a terrifying thought. But there are lawyers and lawyers. And then, there are Henry Carver and Waldo P. Burmeister. Sometimes it''s not clear if their greatest skill lies in getting their clients out of trouble - or getting themselves into it. Whether it''s Waldo …
Amazing Doctor Darwin
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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18th Century Europe : Superstition is giving way to the force of reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer of he seemingly supernatural, no mystery can stand for long against Darwin''s enlightened analysis. And there are more …
Charles Sheffield SF Gateway Omnibus
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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Physicist and writer Charles Sheffield very quickly built a reputation for imaginative, cleverly-plotted hard SF. In his second novel he posited the concept of a space elevator simultaneously to - but independent of - Arthur C. Clarke. This omnibus contains three of his finest works: debut novel, …
Summertide
Ljudbok, 2010
278 kr
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It was just before Summertide, when the planet Quake would orbit closest to its sun, subjecting itself to vast tidal forces. It was to be the most violent Summertide ever, creating something that only happened every 350,000 years. Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some …
Divergence
Ljudbok, 2011
328 kr
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For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as the Builders. But still, they are no closer to figuring out who—or what—the Builders were, or where they have gone. For Darya Lang, who has single-handedly …
Transcendence
Ljudbok, 2006
321 kr
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The search for the Builders, the legendary alien race whose unfathomable constructs continued to perplex scholars and explorers alike, had led Builder expert Darya Lang, adventurer Hans Rebka, and treasure hunters Louis Nenda and Atvar H’sial to an unknown Builder artifact far outside the spiral …
Far Futures
Av Judy Young, various authors m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2014
335 kr
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Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the form From Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a …
