Christian Queghan is a myth technologist & a highly respected scientist on the planet known as Earth IVn. Like so many other worlds colonised generations ago, Earth IVn was created to be as much like Old Earth as possible, altho Old Earth itself is now the stuff of legend. In Seeking the Mythic...
While working with another scientist on decoding texts from ancient history, myth technologist Christian Queghan discovers his colleague's plans to use the research to alter history. Queghan must now draw upon his abilities to pass into alternate realities in an attempt to stop him.
First published in 1975, Trevor Hoyle's novel of life in the north of England in the 1970s has since become a cult classic.
Following a motorway accident in which both his wife and daughter are killed, Jack Vail, now alone in the world, finds himself in London - though it is not quite the city as we know it. While his home in the North of England was stricken with poverty and radiation poisoning, the capital is char...
A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean's oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air's oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrial...
Burrowing its way into the gut of animals—from small rodents to man—the virus attacked the cellular structure of its host, causing cancer, disruption of blood-cell function, deformation of the liver and other organs, leading eventually and inevitably to death. It was deplo...
He was late; it seemed that nowadays he could do nothing to schedule, from eating breakfast to making love: time escaped as through a sieve and he was always in a hurry to catch up with yesterday. And now the MDA (Medikal Direktorate Authority), not content with restricting his budget for the new...
As a rule he slept soundly, untroubled by whatever cares the day had heaped upon his ageing shoulders; but the latest results from the CENTiNEL Particle Accelerator had been more than merely disturbing, they had been alarming. He sat at his desk on Level 40 of MyTT drinking lukewarm tea from a ch...
He made her promise that the Bulletin wouldn’t run the story on what had caused the death of the four scientists until they’d had the chance to talk to Professor Friedmann and find out what explanation he had to offer. ‘You bend over backwards to be fair, don’t you, Frank?’ Helen said in a tone t...