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  • Bob Shaw SF Gateway Omnibus

    Orbitsville, The Ragged Astronauts, A Wreath of Stars

    by Bob Shaw ...
    From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the work of the award-winning Bob Shaw. Best known for his extraordinary novel of 'slow glass', Other Days, Other Eyes, Bob Shaw was a fan favourite at conventions for his hysterical 'serious scientific talks'. This omnibus contains three of his finest ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Orbitsville

    Orbitsville Book 1

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 115 - Gateway Essentials
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ship of Strangers

    by Bob Shaw ...
    The chronicle of adventures of the survey ship Sarafand as it journeys through space exploring and mapping newly-discovered planets.The mission brings them into contact with man startling life-forms and menacing aliens. On one world the Sarafand sends out six survey modules and seven return: one of them is a shape-changing malevolent alien - but which?On another planet they discover a humanoid ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Wooden Spaceships

    Land and Overland Book 2

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 2 - LAND AND OVERLAND
    Twenty-four years have passed since Toller Maraquine led the population of Land to the sister planet of Overland. Somehow, those left behind have become immune to the deadly pterthacosis which caused the exodus, and their voracious ruler now lays claim to Overland.Grudgingly put in charge of his planet's defence, Toller designs a front-line force of spaceships and satellites made of wood, which ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Medusa's Children

    by Bob Shaw ...
    What unfathomed secrets lay sleeping in this eerie world of water?The Clan knew almost nothing about the giant sphere of water they inhabited, and even less about the sun and planets nearby in space. Living amidst a cluster of nets anchored to the roots of a giant plant, they were aware only of their unending quest for precious air bubbles; and of the unending threat from the ever-hungry Hora. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Palace of Eternity

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 116 - Gateway Essentials
    Shrouded by its shell of drifting lunar fragments, the planet Mnemosyne is a refuge for creative artists and poets, a place isolated from the desperate, losing struggle of the humans against the Syccans.But then COMsac, theFederation's High Command, come to Mnemosyne, and suddenly the planet is more a military colony than a place for artists.For Mack Taverner, the dilemma is stark: either go along ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Dagger of the Mind

    by Bob Shaw ...
    'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...'The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question his own sanity...A member of a telepathic research project, Redpath believes the cause to be side-effects from the experimental drugs he is taking - ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Peace Machine

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Lucas Hutchman is the Ground Zero ManThe man who has his finger on the button, the man who can destroy the world - or save it, the man whose own life suddenly has no value, unless he can make the governments of Earth understand that he is the absolute master of the ultimate doomsday device - a device that can trigger every nuclear weapon in existence if Hutchman's demands are not met in time. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Ragged Astronauts

    Land and Overland Book 1

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 117 - Gateway Essentials
    "One of the most entertaining ... science fiction authors of the 20th Century" - Alan Brown, Reactor Magazine"I read this when it was first published and have greatly enjoyed re-reading it" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars"A superb novel" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsLand and Overland are twin worlds, barely a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Fugitive Worlds

    Land and Overland Book 3

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 3 - LAND AND OVERLAND
    The opening of The Fugitive Worlds finds Toller Maraquine II - grandson of the hero of The Ragged Astronauts and The Wooden Spaceships - bemoaning the fact that life on the twin planets of Land and Overland has become dull and uneventful compared to the stirring times in which his illustrious forebear lived. Then, while on a balloon flight between the worlds, he makes an astonishing discovery - a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Tomorrow Lies in Ambush

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Thirteen fantastical tales, including What Time Do You Call This? - a wildly ironic story about a bank robber who shuttles to an alternate universe and runs into himself. Communication - a modest plan by a shaman spiritualist gets out of hand when the dead begin to contact him. And Isles Where Good Men Lie - a space caravan of scale-armoured, bacteria-laden immigrants begins to make landings on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Two Timers

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Defying time, Jack Breton crosses into a parallel world to regain Kate - the wife who, nine years earlier, was found raped and strangled in a lonely park. But, in the alternate time-stream Kate is married to his double, John. And for one husband to remain either Jack or John must die. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD