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Windows
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Rod was a television reporter with the ultimate gimmick. Thanks to the marvels of microsurgery, TV cameras were implanted in his eyes. He could broadcast people''s actions without them even knowing it. But when he was forced to spy on a dying woman, he deliberately blinded himself by overloading …
Quality of Mercy
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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The time: 1979 The place: a top-secret US Air Force base in the Cotswolds The actors: carefully selected, healthy-living personnel The missions: long-range reconnaissance flights The problem: is there any connection between these flights and the growing menace of a strange blood-cancer disease that …
Farewell, Earth's Bliss
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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On board an obsolete ship, nine weeks out from home, the latest batch of colonists arrive at their destination. A grim penal settlement in a wilderness worlds away from the homes they will never see again. TASMANIA? BOTANY BAY? No. For this is tomorrow, not yesterday. The dumping ground for social …
Silent Multitude
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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In the near future, the super-modern city of Gloucester has been transformed - completely redesigned and rebuilt to the principles of ''scientific city planning''. This gleaming city is threatened with extinction by a mysterious spore from space that brings mankind''s proud structures crashing to …
Synthajoy
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Edward Cadence was a brilliant man, and a dedicated scientist. He had invented Sensitape, a means of recording the thoughts and emotions of great musicians, religious figures, etc. so that others could experience at first-hand just what it was like to play a magnificent concerto, or to slip …
Palace
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The palace was several hundred years old, a sort of haphazard medieval city containing church buildings, stables, army barracks - and the offices and homes of the ministers of the Revolutionary Government, in a Communist satellite country somewhere in Europe. The palace rose starkly and …
Chronocules
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defence system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead with practical experiments to develop a means of time travel, while outside the everyday world fell victim to more and more plagues, …
Steel Crocodile
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be. But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - not nearly as certain as the machine he''s …
Missionaries
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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The spaceship landed on the planet Earth to bring it the message of a new religion and a new way of life that would fit the terrestrial barbarians to take their place in the great community of the Galaxy. Their motives were beyond reproach. Their objectives were honourable. It was not their fault …
Usual Lunacy
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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It makes people positively ache with happiness. It puts the roses back in their cheeks and the itch back in their blood. "It" is the Scholes Virus - proper medical term for what used to be called, out of mawkish ignorance but with uncanny prescience, the "love bug". Professor Trevor Scholes has …
Ascendancies
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Into a future where a depleted fuel supply had the world spiralling down into grinding poverty and constant war came . . . Moondrift. Mysterious white flakes of alien matter that was the perfect fuel - clean powerful, dependable. But the aliens - or whatever they were - who sent Moondrift seemed to …
Scudder's Game
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Have a Happy Golden Straub Day! The message floated in the sky for all to read; citizens chanted it to each other, motorists tooted it on their car horns as they drove the uncongested freeways. Earth had become a paradise, courtesy of Cordwainer Hardware International; population dwindling, war a …
Nomansland
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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The Attrition. It was a bloodless, bureaucratic word, chosen to hide the appalling reality of the plague that had changed the face of civilisation. Now Dr Harriet Ryder-Kahn, born four years into the Attrition, thinks she may have an answer. But in a world convulsed by trauma she finds there are …
Justice City
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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In a governmental Punishment and Protection centre, Charge Nurse Landon is wondering why one of the new inductees seems familiar. Meanwhile Chief Inspector Duncan is driving home from a stakeout in Liverpool. When the two men''s destinies meet, the result is a complex mystery with a political edge.
Back of Town Blues
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2011
40 kr
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Alec Duncan, King of Swing, it says on the billboard outside Tony''s. a black man playing a white piano; just what you need to tart up a dodgy Liverpool nightspot. Forty quid a session, plus tips - about all a black Scots ex-copper with nimble fingers and a record of violence on the job can hope …
Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
Av D G Compton
Häftad, 2012
145 kr
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A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old-age. The few exceptions provide the fodder for a new kind of television show for avid audiences who lap up the experience of watching someone else's …
Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2012
44 kr
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THE NEW REVISED EBOOK EDITION RELEASED IN 2019 WITH THE AUTHOR''S PREFERRED TEXT! A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old-age. The few exceptions provide the fodder for a new kind of television …
Ragnarok
E-bok, 2012
44 kr
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The day of ice and fire, that brings in its wake devastation to the world. Dr Robert Graham, noted nuclear physicist, has campaigned hard and long for disarmament. Now his patience is at an end. With an ill-assorted handful of desperate, like-minded ''terrorists'', he plans to hold the human race …
D.G. Compton SF Gateway Omnibus
Synthajoy, The Steel Crocodile, Ascendancies
Av D G Compton
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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D.G. Compton is best known for his prescient 1974 novel, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, which predicted the 21st century''s obsessions with media voyeurism and ''reality television''. It was filmed as DEATH WATCH in 1980 by Bertrand Tavernier. This omnibus collects three of his incisive SF …
Too Many Murderers
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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Classic crime from the 1960s from a master of suspense The first novel in the acclaimed Ben Anderson series. ''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his …
Medium for Murder
E-bok, 2022
44 kr
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Even in the world of murder, things are not always as they seem... When Ben Anderson first came to stay at Buckleigh Combe in North Devon he found more than a few obstacles to overcome. He was there to research material for his new book, but ended up with far more than he bargained for. The ruined …
Dead on Cue
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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A deadly role becomes murder in the theatre... When writer Ben Anderson goes to Downshead Repertory Theatre company to see the rehearsals for his first play, he is not prepared for what follows. Sitting in the audience, he witnesses a horrific murder: a prop gun has been swapped with the real thing …
High Tide for Hanging
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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At sea, the danger can''t be escaped... Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring. ''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his …
Disguise for a Dead Gentleman
E-bok, 2022
44 kr
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A school reunion goes horribly wrong... A superb classic crime novel from a master of the genre. ''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his human …
And Murder Came Too
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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It''s murder in a sleepy French fishing village . . . Crime writer Ben Anderson was hoping for a peaceful honeymoon sailing in Europe. He''s solved four murders in the last three years, which is more than enough to suit him. He is, after all, a married man now. Things are going to be different. …
Twice Ten Thousand Miles
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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Intriguing, suspenseful historical romance When Beth leaves home - and more importantly, her domineering aunt - to take a PR job at a stately home she thinks she has finally found a path to happiness. But the inhabitants of the house are far more mysterious than she expected, and she soon finds …
Fine and Handsome Captain
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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Will she ever escape her past? Romantic suspense for fans of Joan Aiken and Bridgerton Young Hester Malpass knew little of her past. Only that she was an orphan who was now working in a railway station restaurant for a tyrannical old woman. She dreamed of escape, of finding a brighter place for …
Stranger at the Wedding
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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Mistaken identity, romance, suspense - perfect for fans of Bridgerton ''I cannot marry him,'' said Caroline. ''I am not Kate. I am only her twin.'' All Caroline knew when she came to her senses was that when her twin sister''s desperate plea for help came, she had rushed to Italy to be with her. …
Dangerous Magic
E-bok, 2023
45 kr
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A new life - but will it bring happiness? Wonderfully compelling historical romance - perfect for fans of BRIDGERTON Bridie Tantallon is setting out on a new life - one that she hopes will bring opportunities and, if she is lucky, happiness. It is the turn of the century, and she is setting out …
In the House of Dark Music
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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A graveyard, sinister music, a small child''s nightmare... A children''s tune played on a hurdy-gurdy A small boy''s nightmare The same tune played by an old blind beggar outside a foggy graveyard - and heard again by an old, bed-ridden woman And heard again, at the dead of night on a London street …
