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Gateway Essentials eBook Series

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  • 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

  • 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

  • A Wreath of Stars

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 113 - Gateway Essentials
    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 ... 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

  • Night Walk

    by Bob Shaw ...
    Series Book 114 - Gateway Essentials
    For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp from which nobody ever escaped.But then Tallon invented a way of seeing - ludicrous, agonizing, yet still a way to make escape possible. He 'saw' through the eyes of a bird. A dog, a woman guard and, later, even saw himself through the eyes of his enraged ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Cosmic Kaleidoscope

    by Bob Shaw ...
    The second collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of Orbitsville.Nine stories demonstrate Shaw's superb imaginative range and cynically humorous approach to the world of the future.Skirmish on a Summer MorningUnreasonable FacsimileA Full Member of the ClubThe Silent PartnersThe Giaconda CaperAn Uncomic Book Horror StoryThe BrinkWaltz of the BodysnatchersA Little Night Flying ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Book of Skulls

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    In this novel, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction explores how far four friends will go to achieve immortality."Robert Silverberg at his very best." —George R. R. MartinAfter Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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 Universe Maker

    by A. E. van Vogt ...
    What first reads like a tight noir mystery of a dead woman who won't stay dead, an American soldier paying the price for binge drinking and hooking up with the soon to be victim, quickly escalates into one of the biggest "big-idea" science fiction novels of all time.Not only are the science fiction ideas beyond the leading edge, but van Vogt's descriptions of future culture are eerily accurate ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Weapon Makers

    by A. E. van Vogt ...
    Series series Isher
    Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe.The promise of the Weapon Shops' slogan, The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free, is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Weapon Shops of Isher

    by A. E. van Vogt ...
    Series series Isher
    With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and introduces perhaps the most famous political slogan of science fiction: The Right to Buy Weapons ... Read more

    $3.99 USD