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Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575111151 |
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.
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575110929 |
Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth's tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System. And discovers the almost unimaginably vast spherical structure soon to become famous as 'Orbitsville' - a new home for Earth's huddled masses. Behind Garamond comes Earth's space fleet... Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1975
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1991-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780708883594 |
Two hundred years ago mankind found Orbitsville, a sphere whose habitable inner surface comprised living space equivalent to five billion Earths. The resulting migration was enthusiastic - and nearly total. Earth is now a backwater place. This book continues the story begun in Orbitsville.
Author | : Andrew M. Butler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1846318343 |
The politics of science fiction books, films and television in the 1970s.
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575110961 |
Land and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species, the ptertha, has declared war on humankind, and is actively hunting for victims. The only hope lies in migration. Through space to Overland. By balloon. The Ragged Astronauts - first volume in an epic adventure filled with memorable characters, intense action, engaging notions, exotic locales. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1986
Author | : Gary Westfahl |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476674949 |
By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575111135 |
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 Morning Unreasonable Facsimile A Full Member of the Club The Silent Partners The Giaconda Caper An Uncomic Book Horror Story The Brink Waltz of the Bodysnatchers A Little Night Flying
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575111003 |
For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp from which nobody ever escaped. But then Tallon invented a way of seeing - ludicrous, agonizing, yet still a way to make escape possible. He 'saw' through the eyes of a bird. A dog, a woman guard and, later, even saw himself through the eyes of his enraged Lutheran pursuers. Madness and death were his constant companions as he schemed and fought and struggled for his life. Any other man would have gladly given up, but then, Sam Tallon had no choice, for he was the unfortunate possessor of the single most important secret in the universe - a secret which had to be returned to Earth, somehow.
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575111011 |
Those who tried never returned, and those who didn't, always wondered what they were missing by not attempting the perilous journey to 'Heaven'. The official designation of the giant anti-gravity floating disc was 'International Land Extension U.S.23'. But to the people living like sardines in the fam-apts and dormitories on the ground below, it was known as 'Heaven'. Government regulations meant that it was almost impossible for a human being to get to 'Heaven' - almost, but no quite, as Vic Sterling found out when he began to hunt for his missing half-brother Johnny Considine. For Johnny, along with over a hundred other rebels, had decided they could no longer stand the living conditions on Earth and had hitched a ride to 'Heaven', a 'Heaven' full of unexpected dangers for Vic when he decided to follow.
Author | : Bob Shaw |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575110953 |
Warren Peace joined the Space Legion to forget - and forget what it was he wanted to forget. In his quest to find out who he'd been he got turned into an Oscar by a symbiotic alien parasite. Oscars are invulnerable superbeings, immune to everything and with no need for air, food or drink, let alone sex and drugs and rock'n'roll. Marooned on an airless planet with a whole bunch of them, Warren is bored witless. Then a chance encounter with a lump of pryktonite turns him back into a human, and Warren embarks on a new career- as a galactic troubleshooter. His first mission takes him (with a couple of Oscars providing the muscle) to a water-covered planet where a company producing a mind-blowing drug is having trouble with its alien work force. It seems they're smuggling alien porn mags on to the planet, and are too...tired to work. Warren sets out to find the solution... Warren Peace is the second bizarre episode in the series that began with Who Goes Here? By the acclaimed author of Orbitsville and the Ragged Astronauts trilogy.