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Queen of Nowhere
Par Jaine Fenn. 2013
The Sidhe look like us. They live amongst us. What they lack in numbers they make up with their fearsome…
mental abilities and the considerable physical resources at their disposal. And their biggest advantage? No one believes they exist.Almost no one.Bez, the best hacker in human-space, is fighting a secret war against them. Always one step ahead, never lingering in one place, she's determined to bring them down. But she can't expose the Hidden Empire alone and when the only ally she trusted fails her she must accept help from an unexpected quarter.Just one misstep, one incorrect assumption, and her Sidhe trap - her life's work - could end in vicious disaster. Worse, if Bez fails then humanity may never have another chance to win free of the manipulative and deadly Sidhe ...The Towers of Toron
Par Samuel R. Delany. 1964
"We have received warning. The Lord of the Flames is loose on Earth once more." Once before the Lord of…
the Flames had been driven halfway across the universe. His return would mean a new era of chaos and conflict for the populace of Earth. The Lord of the Flames was a strange adversary - a force of evil devoid of physical substance. He sought warmth in unpredictable places: creeping into the soul of a worm or the stem of a flower or the mind of a man.The Clock of Time (Gateway Essentials #298)
Par Jack Finney. 1957
'It is there...the relentless pressure of a million craving minds on the barrier of Time - and if it should…
break...'From the author of The Body Snatchers and Time and Again, a collection containing:Such Interesting NeighboursThe Third LevelI'm ScaredCousin Len's Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere is a Tide...Behind the NewsQuit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the AirA Dash of SpringSecond ChanceContents of the Dead Man's PocketRenaissance (Gateway Essentials #318)
Par Raymond F. Jones. 1944
CALL ME KETAN! Like all my companions in Kronweld I emerged full-grown from the Temple of Birth. My needs, my…
wishes, my passions were coldly filed in the perforated transparencies that constitute the integrated will of Kronweld. But I alone harbour curiosity about our past. I alone know the Bors of Dark Land and how they are born. I alone have discovered the hidden secret of our birth... and have heard the groaning fertility prisoners of the other world. Here is their message: "If any of you live, come through to us. Save us. Bring weapons!" I am going to them now. I do not know whether I will ever return from the great Edge...Midnight at the Well of Souls (The Well of Souls)
Par Jack L. Chalker. 1977
Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways - built by a race lost in the clouds of time - Well World…
transforms creatures of any sort into different forms. So, spacefarer Nathan Brazil is not surprised to find himself accompanied by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid as he sets out on his strange mission. Yet Nathan Brazil's own metamorphosis is more terrifying than any of the others - and with the gradual return of his memory comes the secret of the Well World.Give Warning to the World
Par John Brunner. 1974
Are there aliens among us? Are the chariots of the gods returning? If so - are they for us or…
against us? John Brunner, award-winning author and science fiction writer extraordinary, takes the questions now on everyone's mind, and gives one possible answer in this startling novel. Here is an edge-of-the-seat story of the man who discovers that the vanguard of the aliens are indeed amongst us - and that the human species has but a few hours left before our time runs out. It's a science fiction thriller you won't be able to put down.The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell: The Stainless Steel Rat Book 10 (Gateway Essentials #317)
Par Harry Harrison. 1996
Sinister religions, missing physicists, super strings and retarded entropy; it's all in a day's work for Slippery Jim DiGriz, the…
Stainless Steel Rat, the Universe's greatest ever thief and con artist. But this time the stakes are rather higher than even Slippery Jim is used to. His wife Angelina has disappeared and he has nothing to go on except a pool of blood and a severed hand (formerly belonging to a physicist of stellar repute) - and the fact that she has expressed an interest in The Temple of Eternal Truth, a cult offering a sneak peek at heaven - for a price. But there's a job to do and the Stainless Steel Rat is the man to do it. After all, the devil makes work for idle hands...Cloud Castles
Par Michael Scott Rohan. 1993
The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon…
are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos...You can't always find it - but it can always find you.And when it finds Steve Fisher again, he is plucked from his lonely life into the heart of a breathtaking adventure. An apocalyptic struggle that has raged for millennia must be resolved - or Fisher may see the dawn of a new Dark Age.Flowers For Algernon: A Modern Literary Classic (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Par Daniel Keyes. 1994
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligenceCharlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle…
butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.Fox and Empire
Par Harry Turtledove. 1997
Ever since the devastating Werenight that spelled the end of the Elabonian Empire, Aragis the Archer has been saying he…
doesn't want war with Gerin the Fox, also called King of the North. But the Archer is ambitious and feels that his time is slipping by. So he makes one tiny little threat that turns out to have not such tiny consequences. Because the Fox must respond to this threat, and the Archer must again riposte. Then, just as things are getting "interesting", the Empire knocks with great authority on the door to the Northlands. "Submit or die" is the message, and suddenly the Archer and the King in the North are allies once again...The Doomsday Men
Par Kenneth Bulmer. 1968
It is an age of omnipotent machines; of a vast, megalopolis with hover-cars tied into an electronic traffic control, pedways…
and monorails...It is an age, too, of ultimate detectives. Robin Carver was one of the best on Ridforce. Connecting with the dying brains of murder victims, reliving their last moments, fingering the killers for the police was his job, and he did it well.But the sudden wave of murders had shaken him to the core. A man could work with death for just so long - then something had to give...Rolltown
Par Mack Reynolds. 1976
In Rolltown, Reynolds has turned his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades…
into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile "towns" composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.Wild Cards: Inside Straight
Par George R.R. Martin. 2008
The Wild Cards series reboots with new authors, new heroes and a new directionIn 1946, an alien virus that rewrites…
human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent of those who survived mutated into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by NEW YORK TIMES No.1 bestseller George R.R. Martin along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then - and of the heroes among that one percent.Now it is time for a new generation of heroes - and writers - to pick up the baton.Twenty-eight extraordinary people - Aces, people who have contracted the deadly Wild Cards virus and lived - sign onto a reality TV show. These young heroes have never really been heroic, but each has a superhuman skill.Initially divided up into four suits while competing in staged contests as only LA-LA land could dream up, the losers are voted off the show until, at last, the greatest American Hero will be left standing. As the weeks go by, those remaining in the competition are stunned by sickening events in the Middle East. Their inane challenges look silly when compared to those unpowered people risking their lives. Will this group of over-privileged and under-informed 'celebrities' be able to make a real difference to the world? And how many of them really care?Time and Again (Gateway Essentials #320)
Par Clifford D. Simak. 1950
Asher Sutton has a book in his hands - a book that would change the history of the galaxy, a…
book by himself...that he had never written. Or had he? Or would he?Uncharted Territory
Par Connie Willis. 1994
Planetary surveyors Fin and Carson battle hostile terrain, bureaucratic red tape, and renegade "planet crashers" in this latest novella by…
the talented author of Doomsday Book. Connie Willis continues to demonstrate her endless versatility in this archly written satire, which is both a love story and a shameless expose of the dark side of political correctness.A Reasonable World: CV Book 3 (CV)
Par Damon Knight. 1991
Plague...or paradise? 2005 A.D. Six years have passed since the alien Symbionts invaded Sea Venture, Earth's largest ocean habitat. Now,…
despite the government's best attempts at quarantine, the Symbionts have spread all over the planet, infecting the bodies of both humans and animals - and slowly, subtly forcing mankind in new directions. Once possessed by the Symbionts, men and women become smarter, wiser - or else they die. War and violence are punished by instant execution from within. A new era dawns, but there are those who would turn back the millennium, who will stop at nothing to prevent...A Reasonable World.Temple of Death
Par E. C. Tubb. 1996
For ten years, Colin sweated, slaved, and eventually built-up a nice business on a dusty world called Mars. Ten more…
years and he'd have been able to retire a rich man. Five more years and he'd have put all worry behind him. He didn't get those five years. During a sandstorm, he blundered accidentally into the forbidden zone, where the temple of Dra Vheera waited and rested, an area guarded zealously to the death by a fanatical faith. The Martians complained, and he lost all, stripped of everything he owned, fined, and sent back to Earth on a one-way ticket. And who was to blame? The Dra Vheera, the priesthood of Mars, the temple, the religion. One name for all three, but all three really one. A man named Barhart offered vengeance, sweet, pure vengeance. With his help and money, Colin put together a force of eager men determined to strike back at the Martians, but he found more than they bargained for. The safety of Earth was now at stake, and Colin had to race against time and Death to save mankind.Fuse
Par Julianna Baggott. 2013
The second book in the PURE trilogy for fans of THE PASSAGE, THE ROAD and THE HUNGER GAMES. When the…
end came, the world was divided. Those considered perfect, the Pure, sheltered inside the controlled Dome. Outside, the Wretches struggled in a destroyed world, crippled by the fusings that branded them after the apocalypse that changed everything. Partridge, a Pure, has left the safety of the Dome in search of the truth. Pressia, a Wretch, is desperate to decode the secret that will cure her people of their fusings forever. Together, they must seek out the answers that will save humankind, and prevent the world's annihilation. But the betrayal of Partridge's departure has not been forgotten. As the Dome unleashes horrifying vengeance upon the Wretches in an attempt to get Partridge back, Partridge has no choice but to return to face the darkness that lies there, even as Pressia travels to the very ends of the world to continue their search. Theirs is a struggle against a formidable foe, and it is a fight that will push them over boundaries of land and of sea, of heart and of mind. They can only hope for success because failure is unimaginable...The Hammer and the Cross (Gateway Essentials #294)
Par Harry Harrison. 1993
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings. Powerful bishops and black-robed…
priests fill their cathedrals with gold, while threatening all who oppose them with damnation. But there are those who do not fear the priests, and they are the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia. Among these Northern invaders, those who follow the Way of the Gods of Asgard carry the Hammer of Thor as their emblem, and they are sworn to increase mankind's knowledge and strength by conquest and by craft. And as Viking warlords cast hungry eyes upon a weak and divided Britain, the Way collides with the Church, launching an all-out war between The Hammer and the Cross.At the center of this bloody conflict is Shef, bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady. A smith and a warrior, he is driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. Torn by divided loyalties, Shef alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom - and threaten the holy power of Rome itself!Flinx in Flux (Gateway Essentials #523)
Par Alan Dean Foster. 1988
Flinx and his amazing minidrag Pip are always finding themselves in the middle of danger and galactic intrigue. So Flinx…
is not too surprised when they happen upon a young woman unconscious upon a river bank, deep in the jungles of Alaspin. Nor is he particularly shocked to discover that she is a brilliant scientist, abducted from a remote outpost on inhospitable Longtunnel by a group of fanatic assassins. Flinx can see no harm in returning Clarity - for that is her name - to her base before continuing on his way, although he is getting tired of having to sort out other people's problems. He does have his own life to get on with.However he is quite unprepared for the disturbing effect the beautiful Clarity has on him. And as he worries about this quite novel problem, the assassins are still at work. Stopping research at Longtunnel is their number one aim and they aim to kill anyone who gets in the way.