Eric Brown

Londres, 1907. Dix ans après la reddition terrienne.Alors que l’humanité vit sous la férule de ses conquérants, Gruvlax-Xenxa-Schmee, vice-ambassadeur de Mars en Grande-Bretagne, vient frapper à la p

À BORD DU LOIN DE CHEZ SOI, Ed et Karrie bourlinguent depuis bientôt dix ans. Et pourraient bien bourlinguer dix ans encore, en quête d’épaves aux quatre coins de l’Expansion — carcasses de croiseurs

THE DISCIPLES OF APOLLO collects Eric Browns finest short fiction, from the contemporary title story, in which the victims of a terrible malaise retreat to a sequestered island to see out their final months, to the far future of Dark Calvary, set on the dying world of Tartarus Major whose sun is about to go nova. Whether set is space of the future, or Earth of the here and now, Browns stories are imbued with a passionate concern for the human condition and the need to deliver compelling narratives. The Children of Winter and Hunting the Slarque won the BSFA Award for the best short story of 1999 and 2001 respectively, while Zarlas World" is original to the collection.

Victor Trevor, an old friend of Holmess calls him to Trincomalee, Ceylon, to investigate the vanishing of the Atkinson brothers, whose disappearance was as sudden as it was mysterious. For sixth months the people of Trincomalee have remained baffled by their departure, particularly because the brothers did not seem to have an enemy in the world. Holmes rushes to the island to help Trevor decipher just how these two men simply vanished.

When Matt Hendricks daughter Sam is kidnapped by his ex-wife Maatje and the malign Dr Hovarth, Hendrick embarks on a quest to track her down and return her to Earth. His journey from planet to exotic planet takes him to . . .Fomalhaut IV . . . What he finds on the easy going backwater world is a bizarre religion and a race of aliens whose rituals promise to bring to dead back to life...Spica III . . . where Hendrick stumbles across a cult whose charismatic leader demands nothing less form his adherents as the ultimate sacrifice: suicide...Alpha Reticuli II . . . On this world Hendrick meets an alien Effectuator who claims that he can bring Matts dead daughter, Sam, back to life... but is the alien all he claims to be?And finally to Bellatrix I . . . Maatje and Dr Hovarth have fled to the planet of Beltran, home of the advanced but reclusive alien race known as the Vhey. But on this sultry jungle world, at the end of his quest, a moving and horrific denouement awaits Matt Hendrick . . .

This collection gathers eight stories as varied in space and time as they are in theme, and features such tropes as alien visitors, space opera, near future satire, cloning, and even murder-mystery. Conway and the Aliens is set in his popular Starship Seasons future, while Dimensions of Deceit is the latest tale in the Salvageman Ed series. The Trees of Terpsichore Three is a collaboration with Michael Coney. Three stories are original to the volume.

THE CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION TALE THAT WILL EAT YOUR BRAINS!Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal.Panic descends upon planet Earth once more as H. G. Wellss terrify- ing cosmic invaders blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England, leaving thousands of undead in their wake. Our adventurous narrator must survive the apocalyptic alien threat while fighting off rag- ing, bloodthirsty zombies. Who will triumph when man, Martian, and flesh-eating monster meet? Packed with fearsome supernatural creatures at every turn, Wellss original masterpiece is scarier, gorier, and more suspenseful than ever!

En un futuro cercano, los ataques nucleares contra el centro y la costa oeste de Norteamérica ha hecho que millones de personas emigren a las grandes urbes del este, y Nueva York, con sus más de 30 millones de habitantes es el gran vertedero de los desahuciados. En una ciduad dónde la incipiente Realidad Virtual es el único escape posible para sus habitantes, Hal Hallyday y Berney Kluger, detectives especializados en personas desaparecidas, se ven involucrados en la búsqueda de una de las principales diseñadoras de RV. Poseedora de una información vital, descubrir el paradero de la científica en la inmesidad de la metrópoli, puede suponer la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte de millones de personas.

Ed Bentleys wife has left him and hes been dropped by his publisher. Still, its not the end of the world. All he has to do is ghost-write a science-fiction novel for Tuppy Cotton, a YouTuber young enough to be his daughter When Ed uncovers an unearthly mystery at Tuppys Yorkshire retreat, everything changes. The world might not be ending, but it will be turned upside down. Ace Doubles is Eric Browns dazzling and moving tribute to his heroes: the writers who captured his imagination in his youth, inspiring him to become an award- winning author; and the ordinary people who do extraordinary things. With Ace Doubles, Eric Brown has crafted a meticulously evocative story of an ageing author who believes hes reached the end of his career. His eerie path to redemption is both poignant and mysterious enough to involve the reader right to the very last line. PETER F. HAMILTON

Hal Halliday runs a missing persons business in mid 21st century New York. It is a city that is drowning in refugees after terrorist outrages have left much of America a radioactive wasteland. People colour their grim lives with endless hours spent in VR. It is an addiction which has made VR magnate Sergio Mantoni a multi-millionaire. But now Mantoni faces a threat from a guerrilla group called VIREX, who are dedicating to ending the false promise of VR. And when Hal accepts a job to look for the missing sister of a Holodrama star, he find himself drawn into the complex world of VR and VIREX ..

A new addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series from science fiction and crime author Eric Brown.A DEADLY PLOTFor the second time in human history, Martian invaders occupy planet Earth. After a common terrestrial virus thwarted the first deadly invasion, another Martian armada arrived six years later to make peace. Now, mankind enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the aliens scientific wonders and technology, and an entente exists between the two races. But when Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate the death of an eminent Martian philosopher, they unravel an intricate web of betrayal and murder that leaves no one human or Martian beyond suspicion

New York in 2040 is a city of the lost. A good place to work in Missing Persons. But business is not quite good enough for Hal Halliday to forget his sister, burned alive when only child all those years ago. And now VR offers the chance of bringing her back, the future may yet allow Hal to live in the past. If he can survive the next job ...

In a futuristic variation upon the modern detective story, we follow Hal as he returns from retirement, seeking the answer to the mysterious disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, last seen with a child prodigy and an unknown older man. We accompany him during his encounters with the jaded individuals who now occupy sullied Manhattan, and share his anguish at the gradual realization of the devastating effects that Virtual Reality is having upon his fellow citizens, rapidly losing their abilities to interact in the real world.

La acción tiene lugar en el futuro. Ana y su hermano son dos hindúes que sobreviven en la calle gracias a las propinas de los paseantes. Al ser Ana una "intocable", es decir, una persona inmortal, intenta salvar la vida a su hermano, enfermo a traves de la Red.

THE WORLDS GREATEST TEST PILOT TELLS HIS STORY When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slackerKirsty Young, Desert Island DiscsThe greatest test pilot who ever lived. A true inspirationTim Peake, astronaut and former regular British Army Air Corps officerThe stories beggar beliefGuardianFascinating reading . . . His amazing life story is quite literally "stranger than fiction"Todays PilotIn 1939, Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else.During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britains few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets.Wings on My Sleeve is Winkle Browns incredible story.

It''s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.

A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures celebrates his amazing vision. A host of top science fiction authors pay homage to Verne''s genius with a series of breathtaking stories using as a springboard his iconic ideas and characters. Collected in this anthology of Extraordinary Voyages are stories of intrigue and adventure set in the four corners of the globe, and even within it. Stories set in the past, present and future - tales that will delight with the same sense of wonder conjured by Jules Verne in such novels as Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea..

Mags and Sorensen, attempting to trace the whereabouts of Pintos rebel relative, Gregor, embark on a perilous journey across the face of the planet, pursued by Enforcers, attacked by aliens, and meeting a collection of strange humans. What they learn on the outside will make them question everything they thought true, as revelation follows revelation until the novellas showdown and the discovery of a truth which will force them to reassess everything theyve ever known to be true about their home planet and the races that live there.