Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Gateway ISBN: 9781473228375 Category : Languages : en Pages : 576
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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!
Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571087129 Category : Life on other planets Languages : en Pages : 249
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The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason dinAlt knew this, but he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving towards certain disaster. And, Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out the perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.
Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0575115939 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 141
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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¿
Author: Deborah Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780380973569 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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When Flattop Kincaid buys a used video game at a flea market, he finds himself in the Middle Ages among peasants who think he is a deranged member of the nobility.
Author: Doug Wallace Publisher: ISBN: 9781695463301 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
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The Hades Galaxy is so far from Earth, its light hasn't even reached our most powerful telescopes. It's a strange place-familiar, yet different. A place where stars erupt at a moment's notice, planets crumble like glass, and the laws of physics push the limits of the impossible. It's also inhabited. Or it used to be. So how did Paul Johnson get from his grandpa's ranch in Montana to the shores of alien waters in a distant galaxy? How did he and millions of colonists become trapped there, with no hope of ever returning home? He did what men throughout history have done: he chased after a beautiful woman. And he got her. Sort of.The promise of land grants on virgin worlds and first contact with alien races are now in the rear-view mirror. Do battleships even have rear-view mirrors? Promoted out of turn, Paul leads a crack team of corporate marines in the fight to re-establish the Rift, the mysterious wormhole that joined Hades to the Milky Way. To make matters worse, Earth's largest corporations have engaged in an all-out free-for-all to control the new galaxy's plentiful-yet-very-alien resources. But Hades won't give up its secrets so easily. Menacing forces conspire to keep the human visitors from their aims, and possibly, from returning home.Fans of military sci-fi, space opera, and speculative physics will enjoy reading Hades' Star: Hostile Takeover. Think a cross between Star Trek and Starship Troopers. It's a story of alien worlds littered with technology, romance, action, mystery, and characters that will make you wish you could suit up right beside them and take the fight to the bad guys. The pace never slows in this throwback to the page-turning sci-fi of yore.
Author: Bruce Balfour Publisher: ISBN: 9780441012213 Category : Artificial intelligence Languages : en Pages : 0
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Tom cannot resist the forbidden allure of what was the heathen city of San Francisco, sunk into the sea by the gods centuries ago. But when his defiance brings down the wrath of the gods, he finds that they are actually artificial intelligences. Now, only he can follow the terrifying, mystical Prometheus Road to a face-off on a virtual reality battleground--with enemies that are half-human, half-machine--and where war-faring computers demand Tom's destruction.
Author: J. S. Crouch Publisher: ISBN: 9781718072077 Category : Languages : en Pages : 351
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Tensions on Earth are at an all-time high.The Xuron relentlessly assault the galaxy, destroying worlds and harvesting populations. A fresh face within their ranks guides them towards certain victory but the resilience and cunning of Humanity may turn what seemed to be an eventuality, in their favour.Old faces find Sean in his hour of need, propelling him into a new adventure with those he would never have expected. Along the way, he uncovers a secretive plot that has been building within Ioution society and threatens to burst wide open, changing the course of the war forever.How will Sean and his new crew cope?How will the divisions within Ioution society affect the galaxy?And how will the mysterious Xuron backer change the tide of the war?Find out the above... And more in Fortitude, the third instalment of the hit 'Terranus' series.
Author: Paul McAuley Publisher: Gollancz ISBN: 1473222133 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 889
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IN THE MOUTH OF THE WHALE: Humanity's future rests on the shoulders of a Child from the past, and she must never know of the battles being fought for her . . . In the system of Fomalhaut, a war is being fought. The Quicks came long ago, refugees from the Solar System. The True arrived later, to find a declining civilisation and a system ripe for the taking. Then the Ghosts appeared, no longer human, unknowable, powerful and determined to drive out the Quick and the True. The battle continues, but the outcome is uncertain. Three lives will intersect, because there is something at the centre of their universe, something dangerous and growing and powerful. Something that is worth fighting for. And it will change everybody's life. EVENING'S EMPIRES: In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his ship before. It was his birthplace, his home and his future. He's going to get it back. Nobody is to be trusted.
Author: Janet G. Husband Publisher: American Library Association ISBN: 0838909671 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 793
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A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
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