Up the Line
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| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0515608173 |
When am I? Padway asked himself after the lightning-flash knocked him down. He knew where he was--Rome. He was there to study archaeology, and even though the lightning had left him dazed, he could see the familiar Roman buildings. But the buildings looked newer and the crowds in the street were wearing...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0060134216 |
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0812576403 |
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743475283 |
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix,...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505520 |
In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553290991 |
Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.
Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765312220 |
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:
"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0812558774 |
The Year is 1995 in high-tech, computer-rich America..
While on vacation with his beautiful girlfriend Cora, Donald BelPatri begins to realize that something is seriously wrong wit his memory.
Clickaderick...click
Donald's mind can coil into any computer consciousness,...
| Author | Sean Williams |
| ISBN | 0441006728 |
Commander Morgan Roche of the Commonwealth of Empires is assigned to escort the artificial intelligence unit known as "The Box" to her superiors. With the help of Adoni Cane -- a genetically enhanced warrior who suffers from amnesia -- Roche must protect "The Box" at all costs. But what about Cane? Who...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0441374697 |
Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century. An early space colonist, he spent long centuries of space travel in suspended animation, and then suddenly woke in a far future world where everything had changed. Desperate for something to hold to, he sought out a mentor, who happened...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345452518 |
"Sunstorm" รจ il riuscitissimo seguito de "L'occhio del tempo", del leggendario autore di fantascienza Arthur C. Clarke e di uno dei suoi piu capaci eredi, Stephen Baxter. Dopo cinque anni passati su Mir, il pianeta costruito dalla misteriosa razza dei Primogeniti con migliaia di schegge temporali...
