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1976, Readers Union, hbk Sorry, sold out, but click image to access prebuilt search for this particular edition on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay |
Story: Lew Nichols is in the business of stochastic prediction. A mixture of sophisticated analysis and informed guesswork, it is the nearest approach late-twentieth century man can make to predicting the future. In Nichols' hands, it is a tool of almost uncanny accuracy and his expertise gains him an important place in the entourage of Paul Quinn, the ambitious and characteristic Mayor of the virtually ungovernable city of New York, whose sights are set on the Presidency in 2004. Effective though it is, there is nothing paranormal about stochastic prediction. Nichols guesses the future; he cannot actually see it. That's the extraordinary gift the reclusive Martin Carvajal offers to teach him-total clairvoyant knowledge of the future. Caught up in an obsessive desire to help Quinn into the White House, it is a chance Nichols is unable to resist, even though he can clearly see the effect on Carvajal of knowing in advance every act of his life, up to and including the moment of his death... |
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1977, Readers Union In stock, click to buy for £3.55, not including p&p! Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay |
Story: Forty years in the future, mankind is united under a single government, but this is no Utopian world-state. the Virus War of the 1990s has loosed on the world a ferocious, genetically-transmitted endemic disease-the organ rot-from which the bulk of the population slowly dies. An antidote is available, but only the lucky few are assured of their supply. The ruler of mankind is the self-styled Genghis Mao, whose over-riding obsession is the promotion of scientific research that will develop ways of ensuring his continued survival. The most promising of these is Project Avatar, which seeks a way of transferring the electrical pattern of his mind to the brain of an unfortunate donor. Shadrach Mordecai, Genghis Mao's trusted personal physician, is a vital cog in the great machine devoted to keeping the great leader alive. Linked to Genghis Mao by a network of electronic implants, Shadrach is virtually an extension of the dictator's body, able to sense and diagnose the first symptoms of malfunction. His position seems secure...until the man chosen for Project Avatar commits suicide, and he learns that the body Genghis Mao has now decided he would like to take over is his own. |
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1984, Victor Gollancz, hbk In stock, click to buy for £1.95 (not including p&p)! Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay |
Story: This book is the final part of the trilogy after Lord Valentine's Castle and Majipoor Chronicles, stories from the planet Majipoor. In this final book, Majipoor is now established as the rightful and popular Coronal of Majipoor, but sooner or later he must reluctantly succed to the title of Pontifex and retire to the Labyrinth, leaving behind the colourful life of Castle Mount. The old Pontifex, Tyeveras, has held the title for generations, but is now almost wholly senile, kept alive only be immersion in a complex life-support chamber. Soon he must be allowed to die, but first there is a final challenge for Valentine to face, side-by-side with his chosen successor Hissune. A series of ecological blights begins to strike at Majipoor, threatening to turn a world of plenty into one plagued by starvation and despair. Once again the native Metamorphs are working to drive humans and other aliens from their world, and this time their challenge is even more formidable... |
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1988, Victor Gollancz, hbk In stock, click image above to buy this very good condition copy for £7.50 (not including post and packing) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Everyone on Earth for a million years or more had known that the death-stars were coming, that the Great World was doomed. One by one, they would crash down terribly from the skies, falling without mercy for thousands of years, bringing fire, darkness, dust, smoke, cold, and death: an endless winter of sorrows. Each of the peoples of Earth addressed its fate in its own fashion. The vegetals and the sapphire-eyes people knew that they would not survive, and they made their preparations accordingly. The mechanicals knew that they could not survive if they cared to, but they did not care to. The sea-lords understood that their day was done and they accepted that. The hijk-folk, who never yielded any advantage willingly, expected to emerge unharmed, and set about making certain of that. And the humans... |
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1992, Grafton, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £3.00, not including post and packing Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Contents: This is the first in a five-volume series of books featuring the short stories of Robert Silverberg. This volume features work from the early 1980s and includes 15 stories, of which "Sailing to Byzantium" won the 1982 Nebula Award. Includes: |
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1994, HarperCollins In stock, click to buy for £1.50 (not including p&p)! Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay |
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