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Orbitsville Judgement

Orbitsville Book 3

by Bob Shaw ...

Series Book 3 - ORBITSVILLE
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 shifted to an alternative universe. In a conclusion which is both stunning and moving, ORBITSVILLE ... Read more

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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 shifted to an alternative universe. In a conclusion which is both stunning and moving, ORBITSVILLE
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Orbitsville Departure

Orbitsville Book 2

by Bob Shaw ...

Series Book 2 - ORBITSVILLE
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 only marginal contact. But just because it's backward doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. ... Read more

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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 only marginal contact. But just because it's backward doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.
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The Fugitive Worlds

Land and Overland Book 3

by Bob Shaw ...

Series Book 3 - LAND AND OVERLAND
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 forebear lived. Then, while on a balloon flight between the worlds, he makes an astonishing discovery - a ... Read more

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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 forebear lived. Then, while on a balloon flight between the worlds, he makes an astonishing discovery - a
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A Wreath of Stars

by Bob Shaw ...

Series Book 113 - Gateway Essentials
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 state of Barandi. Miners wearing magniluct lenses have seen ghosts in the mine passages. The visit of ... Read more

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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 state of Barandi. Miners wearing magniluct lenses have seen ghosts in the mine passages. The visit of
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Tomorrow Lies in Ambush

by Bob Shaw ...

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 Men Lie - a space caravan of scale-armoured, bacteria-laden immigrants begins to make landings on ... Read more

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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 Men Lie - a space caravan of scale-armoured, bacteria-laden immigrants begins to make landings on
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The Weapon Makers

by A. E. van Vogt ...

Series series Isher
Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe.The promise of the Weapon Shops' slogan, The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free, is ... Read more

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Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe.The promise of the Weapon Shops' slogan, The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free, is
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The Weapon Shops of Isher

by A. E. van Vogt ...

Series series Isher
With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and introduces perhaps the most famous political slogan of science fiction: The Right to Buy Weapons ... Read more

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With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and introduces perhaps the most famous political slogan of science fiction: The Right to Buy Weapons
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Cosmic Kaleidoscope

by Bob Shaw ...

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 MorningUnreasonable FacsimileA Full Member of the ClubThe Silent PartnersThe Giaconda CaperAn Uncomic Book Horror StoryThe BrinkWaltz of the BodysnatchersA Little Night Flying ... Read more

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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 MorningUnreasonable FacsimileA Full Member of the ClubThe Silent PartnersThe Giaconda CaperAn Uncomic Book Horror StoryThe BrinkWaltz of the BodysnatchersA Little Night Flying
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The Universe Maker

by A. E. van Vogt ...

What first reads like a tight noir mystery of a dead woman who won't stay dead, an American soldier paying the price for binge drinking and hooking up with the soon to be victim, quickly escalates into one of the biggest "big-idea" science fiction novels of all time.Not only are the science fiction ideas beyond the leading edge, but van Vogt's descriptions of future culture are eerily accurate ... Read more

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What first reads like a tight noir mystery of a dead woman who won't stay dead, an American soldier paying the price for binge drinking and hooking up with the soon to be victim, quickly escalates into one of the biggest "big-idea" science fiction novels of all time.Not only are the science fiction ideas beyond the leading edge, but van Vogt's descriptions of future culture are eerily accurate
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Wildeblood's Empire

Daedalus Mission, Book Three

by Brian Stableford ...

Series Book 3 - The Daedalus Mission
hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the ... Read more

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hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the
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The Purity Plot

Family d'Alembert Book 6

by E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Stephen Goldin ...

THE MARCH OF THE ARMY OF THE JUSTWhat is happening on Purity - an obscure planet peopled only by religious introverts? Hitherto the hairshirt brigade have turned their backs on the rest of the Empire. But now, inspired by the aggressive zeal of sinister evangelist Tresa Clunard, the Puritans are preparing to fight a holy war.Time, once more, for SOTE's crack agents, the Family d'Alembert, to ... Read more

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THE MARCH OF THE ARMY OF THE JUSTWhat is happening on Purity - an obscure planet peopled only by religious introverts? Hitherto the hairshirt brigade have turned their backs on the rest of the Empire. But now, inspired by the aggressive zeal of sinister evangelist Tresa Clunard, the Puritans are preparing to fight a holy war.Time, once more, for SOTE's crack agents, the Family d'Alembert, to
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Getaway World

Family d'Alembert Book 4

by E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Stephen Goldin ...

Helena, second in command of the Empire Of Earth's security forces (and daughter of its head), has disappeared. She knows the identity of SOTE's two most highly trained operators and their lives are now in danger . . . they have to find her before she can reveal their identities.Getaway World is the fourth book in the Family d'Alembert series. ... Read more

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Helena, second in command of the Empire Of Earth's security forces (and daughter of its head), has disappeared. She knows the identity of SOTE's two most highly trained operators and their lives are now in danger . . . they have to find her before she can reveal their identities.Getaway World is the fourth book in the Family d'Alembert series.
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