| New York Nights - Gollancz
2000 |
| Set in New York in the year 2040, New York Nights is the
first novel in the Virex Trilogy - a fast-paced thriller featuring Hal Halliday
and his partner Barney Kruger on the case of missing cyber-tech Sissi Nigeria
in a future devastated by atomic meltdowns, where Virtual Reality provides the
ultimate escape. |
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| Penumbra - Orion
1999 |
The 22nd century. The massive starliners that depart from the orbital
transit terminals have taken humankind to hundreds of colony planets. But for
Bennett, jaded tug pilot, a life beyond Earth is just a dream. Until the
Mackendrick Foundation hires him to pilot a lightship to the Rim world of
Penumbra - and a fateful meeting with a mysterious alien race.
On the
teeming streets of Calcutta police Lieutenant Rana Rao has no time to consider
the stars. She has just been promoted from working with the street-children to
the Homicide division.....and into the path of a serial killer.
For
wherever man goes, he takes darkness......... |
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| Walkabout - Orion 1999
(children) |
Suzie's excitement at being picked for the Australian
under-sixteen's mixed soccer team is soon forgotten when her grandfather, who
has taught her everything she knows about both football and aborigine lore,
starts behaving very strangely after a visit to the Web.
Can it have
anything to do with the alarming encounters she has had recently in the Web?
And why are the government so interested in what is happening? Suzie needs to
find out what is going on and hope that she can do it before her uncle changes
for ever.
Something very strange, very alien is going on.Has Suzie
entered her own dreamtime? |
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| Untouchable - Orion 1997
(children) |
THE YEAR: 2027. THE PLACE: EVERYWHERE
Life might be easier for most
people in 2027 but for Ana Devi, whose only home is the streets of New Delhi,
it's a battle for survival. She's certainly never dreamed of visiting the
bright virtual worlds of the Web. And when her brother is kidnapped the Web is
the last thing she is thinking about. But the Web holds the secret to what has
happened to her brother and to dozens of other New Delhi street children.
How can Ana possibly find enough money to access the Web when she can
barely find enough money to eat each day? Who will help her when her caste
means that no one will even touch her? Somehow she must find a way or she will
never see her brother again. |
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| Blue Shifting - Pan Macmillan
1995 |
'THE BLUE LIGHT THICKENED, BLOTTING OUT JANNER'S
SURROUNDINGS, AND HE EXISTED IN A DISPLACED VOID-LIKE LIMBO. CHRIST, HE CRIED
TO HIMSELF, WHERE THE HELL NOW?'
It begins with a feeling of euphoria,
then the light, lapis lazuli, leaking from your body, intensifying, a blinding
nimbus, then it's gone. And so are you.......somewhere, anywhere.
And
it is happening to you every day. |
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| Engineman - Pan Macmillan
1994 |
THE ENGINEMEN ARE HISTORY.
Once they pushed the bigships through the
cobalt blue glory of the Nada-Continuum, linking all the inhabited worlds. But
faster than light isn't fast enough anymore: the interfaces of the
Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation twist space and bring planets light years distant
a simple step away. When a man with half a face offers ex-Engineman Ralph
Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undisclosed
destination he's got nothing to lose.
The Nada-Continuum holds the
key to Ralph's future. What he cannot anticipate is its universal importance.
And in the brilliant radiance of the Continuum something is going wrong.
Apocalyptically wrong................... |
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| Meridian Days - Pan Macmillan
1992 |
Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a
tiny scattering of inhabitable islands, seems the perfect place for Bob
Benedict to escape the tragedy of his past.
Here he can live out his
days in drug abuse, despised by and despising the self-obsessed community of
artists who make up the population of Meridian:the Altereds who have swapped
human form for animal and the Augmenteds who have boosted their minds with
computers. A fine place to shut reality out of life.
But when Benedict
meets Fire, the daughter of the formidable Tamara Trevellion, the most
ruthlessly ambitious of the artists, he is drawn into a world of corruption and
murder that is far darker than his past. Soon it's all he can do just to
survive....... |
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| The Time-Lapsed Man - Pan
Macmillan 1990 |
He made a sound of pleasure as the hot water needled his tired skin. Yet he
heard nothing. The silence was more absolute than any he had experienced
before.
After more than fifty shifts, a lifetime among the stars, this
was his first rehabilitation problem, and he was not unduly worried.........
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