Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him. To be allowed to die.
The Fall of Chronopolis
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him. To be allowed to die.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him. To be allowed to die.
Chronopolis
Author: Joseph John Racano
Publisher: EBL Books
ISBN: 1524328650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
For Alternity... It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But that wasn"t said about the altruistic men and women of Alternitycorp, a group of science-adventurers who gained absolute power only to change key events of the past in hopes of creating a better future. This future had a name, and that name was Chronopolis, a city created using a science called Chrononomy. It all starts deep beneath Alternity Group Headquarters, where Special Time Agent Justin Nicholas Thyme enters the Chrona, an imposing time portal powered by the nuclear fusion of nearby stars. This star energy enables Justin and his protegée Infinity Staires to travel back in time to change key events, forward in time to explore mankind"s eventual fate, and even across infinite fractured dimensions. Join Justin as he fights giant centipedes in the Permian, while Infinity attempts to prevent Cortes from landing at La Paz, all under orders from a group of wildly rich scientists trying to save humanity, and the flora and megafauna of the future. Chronopolis is the home base, and the Chrona is the gateway to the past, future and beyond. Come ride along, and don"t forget to wear a protective "freeze" suit for the time jumps! Meet our agents, the aliens, the ants and the beautiful amazons of Space Station Armstrong, then take a breather at Alternity"s Miocene base, where Infinity keeps Owdy, her pet Woolly Mammoth. This is an adventure you will never forget.
Publisher: EBL Books
ISBN: 1524328650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
For Alternity... It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But that wasn"t said about the altruistic men and women of Alternitycorp, a group of science-adventurers who gained absolute power only to change key events of the past in hopes of creating a better future. This future had a name, and that name was Chronopolis, a city created using a science called Chrononomy. It all starts deep beneath Alternity Group Headquarters, where Special Time Agent Justin Nicholas Thyme enters the Chrona, an imposing time portal powered by the nuclear fusion of nearby stars. This star energy enables Justin and his protegée Infinity Staires to travel back in time to change key events, forward in time to explore mankind"s eventual fate, and even across infinite fractured dimensions. Join Justin as he fights giant centipedes in the Permian, while Infinity attempts to prevent Cortes from landing at La Paz, all under orders from a group of wildly rich scientists trying to save humanity, and the flora and megafauna of the future. Chronopolis is the home base, and the Chrona is the gateway to the past, future and beyond. Come ride along, and don"t forget to wear a protective "freeze" suit for the time jumps! Meet our agents, the aliens, the ants and the beautiful amazons of Space Station Armstrong, then take a breather at Alternity"s Miocene base, where Infinity keeps Owdy, her pet Woolly Mammoth. This is an adventure you will never forget.
The Forest of Peldain
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. Then a man came out of that jungle - a human - who told the Arelians that at the center of the island a secret kingdom flourished. There was nothing for it but to organise an expedition. However deadly the alien forest might be, if one man could get out, an army could get in. So Lord Vorduthe landed and began the assault on the great green enemy. Nobody could have foreseen the horrors with which the forest defended itself. Nobody could have foreseen the price that would be paid by Vorduthe's men. And only Vorduthe himself would learn the incredible secret of the island...if his mind could stand it.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. Then a man came out of that jungle - a human - who told the Arelians that at the center of the island a secret kingdom flourished. There was nothing for it but to organise an expedition. However deadly the alien forest might be, if one man could get out, an army could get in. So Lord Vorduthe landed and began the assault on the great green enemy. Nobody could have foreseen the horrors with which the forest defended itself. Nobody could have foreseen the price that would be paid by Vorduthe's men. And only Vorduthe himself would learn the incredible secret of the island...if his mind could stand it.
Future and Fantastic Worlds
Author: Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1557420025
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1557420025
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
The Great Hydration
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Karl Krabbe and Boris Bouche, partners, explorers, interstellar chancers, don't care much for the law. They don't care much for anything - except profit. Their staff bondman nuclear engineer Roncie Northrop doesn't care much about anything either, except that he's already tried to abscond from the control of the rapacious and illegally operating pair once. When K&B's exploration ship comes upon the small planet Tenacity, they see a good business opportunity. Tenacity is waterless, a desert planet. But it had water once, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens in their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what? As for Roncie, whose part in the project is crucial, he doesn't like it much, but what can he do? He's only a bondman. Krabbe and Bouche strike a deal, and business is business...
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Karl Krabbe and Boris Bouche, partners, explorers, interstellar chancers, don't care much for the law. They don't care much for anything - except profit. Their staff bondman nuclear engineer Roncie Northrop doesn't care much about anything either, except that he's already tried to abscond from the control of the rapacious and illegally operating pair once. When K&B's exploration ship comes upon the small planet Tenacity, they see a good business opportunity. Tenacity is waterless, a desert planet. But it had water once, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens in their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what? As for Roncie, whose part in the project is crucial, he doesn't like it much, but what can he do? He's only a bondman. Krabbe and Bouche strike a deal, and business is business...
Annihilation Factor
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
From the Garlowe Clusters in the north to the Veils of Darkness in the south, the Star Kingdom sprawled over roughly a fifth of the galaxy. So huge was this realm that those who tussled for power over it seemed unable to appreciate that it faced annihilation by the Patch, a roving region of peculiar pseudo-energy a light-year across which drained the life-force from any living thing it encountered. The Patch had moved into the Kingdom and was systematically feeding on system after system. Cynically unperturbed by the appalling loss of life, the royal houses merely tried to involve the Patch in their machinations, to the extent that civil war broke out all over again. But in the event, the Patch was to provide the crucial factor in the struggle for absolute power. The Annihilation Factor!
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
From the Garlowe Clusters in the north to the Veils of Darkness in the south, the Star Kingdom sprawled over roughly a fifth of the galaxy. So huge was this realm that those who tussled for power over it seemed unable to appreciate that it faced annihilation by the Patch, a roving region of peculiar pseudo-energy a light-year across which drained the life-force from any living thing it encountered. The Patch had moved into the Kingdom and was systematically feeding on system after system. Cynically unperturbed by the appalling loss of life, the royal houses merely tried to involve the Patch in their machinations, to the extent that civil war broke out all over again. But in the event, the Patch was to provide the crucial factor in the struggle for absolute power. The Annihilation Factor!
The Ends of Knowledge
Author: Rachael Scarborough King
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350242314
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done. In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular ends, both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common? Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350242314
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done. In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular ends, both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common? Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.
The Garments of Caean
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
THE GARMENTS OF CAEAN are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with undreamed-of powers. But is Peder wearing the suit - or is the suit wearing him?
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
THE GARMENTS OF CAEAN are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with undreamed-of powers. But is Peder wearing the suit - or is the suit wearing him?
The Pillars of Eternity
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself . . .
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself . . .