The Deathworld Omnibus

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 9781473228375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder. It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation. This omnibus contains all three novels in the Deathworld trilogy!

The Deathworld Omnibus

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784444402705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Deathworld

Author: Tom Clancy
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425177389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Net Force Explorer Charlie Davis is worried about his friend Rick, who has been hanging out at a punk rock/morbo site called Deathworld, a place rumored to be responsible for a couple of suicides. Charlie decides to visit the place undercover. What he finds may kill him.

The Deathworld Trilogy

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425058398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Gemworld

Author: John Vornholt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067104270X
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, first seen in the Deep Space Nine episode that bears her name (Melora), is the only Elaysian in Starfleet. Stationed on board the USS Enterprise, six years after her short-lived romance with Dr Bashir, she receives a desperate call for help from her crystalline, multi-species homeworld. When subspace contact fails, Captain Picard sends the Enterprise to investigate, only to find the ship nearly torn apart by a dimensional rift and stranded, badly damaged, below the shields that protect the carefully constructed planet. With both escape and rescue impossible, Picard and crew set out to discover the cause of the rift and the strange, cancerous growth in the crystal choking the planet itself. A Federation ship attempts to reach the Enterprise but is destroyed, and when thoron radiation threatens to kill the crew, all signs on the planet point to sabotage...

Hell on Earth

Author: Mike Wild
Publisher: 2000 AD Books
ISBN: 1849970637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A vicious cross-breed of The X-Files and The Da Vinci Code... Originally known as Department Q, a secret department within the British Ministry of Defence was tasked with investigating the supernatural on behalf of the Government. But times are hard and Department Q has been sold off as a private company - Caballistics, Inc. "SHOW ME YOUR SINS" - the last words heard by the residents of Boswell before incineration by a powerful force in 1944. Old news until a forgotten biblical being is awoken by an apocalyptic cult. Facing explosive ley-lines, Boswell's reanimated dead and a fallen angel intent on bringing about Judgement Day, it's another busy day at the office for Caballistics, Inc.

Deathworld Two

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575115939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
The planet was unknown¿ a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave. The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle¿

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466822732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Bill, the Galactic Hero is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF. "Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written."--New York Times besteselling author Terry Pratchett At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Cyberpunk

Author: Katie Hafner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684818620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk explores the world of high-tech computer rebels and the subculture they've created. In a book as exciting as any Ludlum novel, the authors show how these young outlaws have learned to penetrate the most sensitive computer networks and how difficult it is to stop them.

Planet America

Author: Mack Maloney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780441008780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Rogue Imperial pilot Hawk Hunter goes AWOL, searching for the mythical Home Planets. Battling across the galaxy, Hunter finds his goal-Planet America-possible birthplace of humanity. But his celebration is short-lived. For an alien armada has targeted America for destruction, and Hawk will have to summon all of his inborn warrior skills to stop them...