Author: Mads Aggerholm
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8771703942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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The spaceship 'Gateway' is heading for an earth-like planet, which Earthlings have given the working title of ‘New Earth One’. Initially people thought it was an uninhabited world (apart from any possible wildlife), which the billions of people on Earth could take over. So they start to plan an expedition, which will determine whether this planet is suitable for colonisation. But, while studying the planet, they become aware that it has intelligent life and even a modern civilisation. So the purpose of the expedition changes from being a pure takeover to creating contact with the indigenous population and initiating trade cooperation. Jack Lee is a moderately alcoholic psychologist-cum-anthropologist on the expedition. His task is to analyse the social and societal conditions of the people. What Jack finds is an almost paradisiacal world populated by young, healthy and beautiful people, and a society where crime, greed and selfishness do not exist. But as Jack’s investigation uncovers more and more of how the system works, he discovers that the truth is very different. Someone is clearly trying to kill off the entire planet’s population by means of an unimaginable hoax that has already been going on for centuries. But why? Jack and his friend, Boris the computer expert, suddenly have a pretty big job on their hands. And it doesn’t get any easier for them as it gradually dawns on them that the expedition’s real purpose is not quite what they thought...
Author: Tom Clancy
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425177389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Net Force Explorer Charlie Davis is worried about his friend Rick, who has been hanging out at a punk rock/morbo site called Deathworld, a place rumored to be responsible for a couple of suicides. Charlie decides to visit the place undercover. What he finds may kill him.
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Deathworld centers on Jason, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575115939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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The planet was unknown¿ a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave. The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle¿
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775454444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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What if you could use ESP to influence the outcome of games of chance in your favor? That's the unconventional money-making scheme that intergalactic gambler Jason dinAlt, the protagonist of Harry Harrison's Deathworld, uses to fund his adventures. Can he outwit one of the universe's largest governments to amass an unprecedented fortune -- and survive a sojourn on the deadliest planet known to humankind?
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571087129
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason dinAlt knew this, but he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving towards certain disaster. And, Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out the perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.
Author: Steve Lyons
Publisher: Games Workshop(uk)
ISBN: 9781844163984
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Science fiction-roman.
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146682283X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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From a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee, “intelligent reptiles battle stone age humans for control of an alternate Earth” (Kirkus Reviews). Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life? In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival. Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans’ leader . . . and the dinosaurs’ greatest enemy. West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope. “A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising “Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly
