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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
Book Synopsis Orbitsville by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Orbitsville written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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.
Book Synopsis Orbitsville Departure by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Orbitsville Departure written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Orbitsville is the scene of two of Bob Shaw's most successful novels and is possibly the most gigantic artefact ever dreamed up by an SF writer - a vast hollow world completely enclosing its sun, habitable across its entire inner surface. At the end of ORBITSVILLE DEPARTURE the whole world was shifted to an alternative universe. In a conclusion which is both stunning and moving, ORBITSVILLE JUDGEMENT tells what happens next...
Book Synopsis Orbitsville Judgement by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Orbitsville Judgement written by Bob Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orbitsville is the scene of two of Bob Shaw's most successful novels and is possibly the most gigantic artefact ever dreamed up by an SF writer - a vast hollow world completely enclosing its sun, habitable across its entire inner surface. At the end of ORBITSVILLE DEPARTURE the whole world was shifted to an alternative universe. In a conclusion which is both stunning and moving, ORBITSVILLE JUDGEMENT tells what happens next...
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
Book Synopsis Orbitsville by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Orbitsville written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Thornton's Planet is an anti-neutrino planet detected on its approach to Earth. It can be seen only through the newly developed magniluct lenses and its arrival causes a wave of panic. When its course carries it past the earth, interest in Thornton's Planet wanes. Then comes news from the African state of Barandi. Miners wearing magniluct lenses have seen ghosts in the mine passages. The visit of Thornton's Planet has had effects on Earth further-ranging than anyone could have imagined¿
Book Synopsis A Wreath of Stars by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book A Wreath of Stars written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thornton's Planet is an anti-neutrino planet detected on its approach to Earth. It can be seen only through the newly developed magniluct lenses and its arrival causes a wave of panic. When its course carries it past the earth, interest in Thornton's Planet wanes. Then comes news from the African state of Barandi. Miners wearing magniluct lenses have seen ghosts in the mine passages. The visit of Thornton's Planet has had effects on Earth further-ranging than anyone could have imagined¿
A BSFA Award-winning novel. For centuries the men of Earth had scoured the cosmos for habitable planets, but had found only one. Then Vance Garamond discovered something infinitely better - a Dyson Sphere, the interior of which, surrounding a sun, is larger than five billion earths.
Book Synopsis Orbitsville by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Orbitsville written by Bob Shaw and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1991-07-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BSFA Award-winning novel. For centuries the men of Earth had scoured the cosmos for habitable planets, but had found only one. Then Vance Garamond discovered something infinitely better - a Dyson Sphere, the interior of which, surrounding a sun, is larger than five billion earths.
Shot at by aliens, eaten up by monsters, frozen up, burned up and shipped all over the galaxy¿ war was one game Private Peace didn't want to play. So why had he joined the Space Legion? Warren Peace had joined the Space Legion to forget - exactly what, he hadn't the faintest idea. But he was sure about one thing - however horrific the crime he'd once committed, the memory of it could hardly be more unbearable than life in the lunatic Space Legion. Private Peace knew he'd got to get out¿ The trouble was, the only way to escape his 30-year contract was to discover exactly why he'd signed it in the first place. And that meant a hair raising journey into his forgotten past to meet the one person Peace definitely didn't want to know - Warren Peace Mark I - in other words, himself!
Book Synopsis Who Goes Here? by : Bob Shaw
Download or read book Who Goes Here? written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot at by aliens, eaten up by monsters, frozen up, burned up and shipped all over the galaxy¿ war was one game Private Peace didn't want to play. So why had he joined the Space Legion? Warren Peace had joined the Space Legion to forget - exactly what, he hadn't the faintest idea. But he was sure about one thing - however horrific the crime he'd once committed, the memory of it could hardly be more unbearable than life in the lunatic Space Legion. Private Peace knew he'd got to get out¿ The trouble was, the only way to escape his 30-year contract was to discover exactly why he'd signed it in the first place. And that meant a hair raising journey into his forgotten past to meet the one person Peace definitely didn't want to know - Warren Peace Mark I - in other words, himself!
Download or read book Orbitsville written by Bob Shaw and published by Pan. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.
Book Synopsis Evaporating Genres by : Gary K. Wolfe
Download or read book Evaporating Genres written by Gary K. Wolfe and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.
Imagine a world without hunger. With clothing and shelter for everyone. A world that is never too warm or too cold. A world where there are no decisions to be made, because everything is decided upon for the inhabitants. A utopia? Or a prison? Because paradise has a price. The story of one man: the last who can read the secret language of the machine that created the City - the last man who can change it.
Book Synopsis The City Machine by : Louis Trimble
Download or read book The City Machine written by Louis Trimble and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world without hunger. With clothing and shelter for everyone. A world that is never too warm or too cold. A world where there are no decisions to be made, because everything is decided upon for the inhabitants. A utopia? Or a prison? Because paradise has a price. The story of one man: the last who can read the secret language of the machine that created the City - the last man who can change it.
