Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare. Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as Bardo, is guiding the planet benevolently,
Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of
Tolkien's magical world of Middle-Earth - a land inhabited by tobacco-smoking, ale-brewing, Halfling superheroes, eon-old Elven kings, chanting time-travellers, messianic wizards and satanic war-lords - remains unparalleled in its scope and vision and unsurpassed in its appeal and fascination for
A scream of agony in a darkened office…an oddly constructed mansion high on a hill which had been there far longer than memory or history could reach…extraterrestrial intervention in the slow build-up of the last devastating war Mankind could suffer… murder… a young lawyer. Stephens, who finds
A churning nuclear vortex, appearing out of nowhere, wreaking utter destruction - and countless numbers of them were menacing planets throughout the galaxy! 'Storm' Cloud, nucleonic genius, set out in his spaceship Vortex Blaster to track and destroy the mysterious vortices - and embarked on a saga
‘A THRILLING SPACE SAGA BY A MASTER FANTASIST “The Deep is the Beginning and the End, at once the womb and the coffin of time and space, the well-spring of life and death, the mother of nodes” James Andrek, brilliant young lawyer in the Great House of Oberon, mighty tyrant of the twelve Galaxies,
"The most interesting British SF writer of ideas."--J.G. Ballard "Complex and brilliant."--Christopher Priest "Dizzying concepts--not just startling, but convincing and satisfying."--The Times The scriptwriter of Steven Spielberg's AI spins another subtle, daring, and brilliant tale about a very
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