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1) Obelisk
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
This collection of short stories and novellas contains stories set in the worlds of the bestselling duology 'Ultima' and 'Proxima', which expand on the characters and worlds of that series. There are also a selection of alternate histories and possible futures, building on Baxter's work with Terry Pratchett on the 'Long Earth' series.
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared. So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter...
5) Emperor
Author
Series
(Time's tapestry volume 1)
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Roman Empire struggles to survive, an ancient prophecy is unearthed on its misty northern edge. The prophecy is scribbled down and handed down through the generations as the family is pulled apart and Rome's fortune waxes and wanes.
6) Flood
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The seas are rising. At first global warming is blamed, but as London, then New York, then entire countries disappear beneath the waves, it is clear that something much worse is happening.
9) Exultant
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 2
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Set 25,000 years from now, 'Exultant' takes mankind into a millennial war for the control of the galaxy itself. A war against the unknown, utterly alien Xeelee. Now the war has reached the galaxy's hot core, the Xeelee stronghold and, impossibly, it seems that a final victory may be at hand.
11) Conqueror
Author
Series
(Time's tapestry volume 2)
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It's 1066. As King Alfred fights to preserve his fledgling kingdom, once again a mysterious prophecy arises - a prophecy that could change the outcome of the Battle of Hastings and, with it, history. This series brings history to vivid, changeable, life - and asks some tantalising questions about our future.
12) Ultima
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 'Proxima' we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The universe opened up to us. Now in 'Ultima' the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. For some of us. But as we learn the true nature of...
13) The wheel of ice
Author
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The wheel of ice: a ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a colony mining minerals fora future Earth. A bad place to grow up. The wheel has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But what's the truth of the children's stories of 'Blue Dolls' glimpsed aboard a gigantic facility.
20) The long earth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to the burned-out home of one Willis Linsay where she finds an invention that would change the way mankind viewed his world forever.