Eric Brown

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ..

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 . . .

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!

Kon Tiki Coda is the moving finale to the successful Kon Tiki Quartet. Dislocations Parasites Insights Iterations

For generations, humankind has lived in protective tunnels and domes on an Earth ruined by war and environmental destruction. To reinforce their fear of the deadly world beyond the domes, children are raised to the litany of The rain that burns, the light that blinds, the air that kills, the water that poisons...In the domes, Enforcers keep an oppressive rule of law, a discipline accepted as necessary for a population sheltering from such a hostile world. The Enforcers are abetted in this by the mysterious Enigmats, aliens who came to Earth many years earlier; no one really knows why the Enigmats are here, but its generally accepted that they have intervened to protect the human survivors from the consequences of their own folly.

An eighty year old cold case murder investigation that stretches across light years and risks the future of mankinds new home. A hard SF/crime crossover from two respected and well-likednames in SF.---2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of climate change is peaking, with much of the planets equatorial regions turned to lifeless desert and populations displaced. Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, but these cannot hope to sustain any more than a scant population of hundreds of citizens.Attention has turned to the need to discover an extra-solar colony world. European scientists, using discoveries made at CERN, have identified the means of creating a wormhole in the space-time continuum, which would allow interstellar travel. However, to do so they must first physically transport one end of the wormhole to where they want it to be, so settingup a wormhole will always rely on physical travel first of all.A ship is sent to Mu Arae, earth-like planet discovered 10 years before. It is a journey that will take 80 years, the crew, who will eventually set up the wormhole on the planet, kept in suspended animation. But only a few years into the trip, catastrophe strikes and the ship blows up en route, killing all aboard. 2190, eighty years after the starship set out.Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London. Usually he works on cases closed ten, twenty-five years earlier. Now, however, he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What he unearths will change history and threatens everything we know about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The tragedy that befell the ship 80 years before is not what it seems and the past and the present are radically different to what everyone on Earth believes. We made the journey. Why has it been kept a secret?File Under:Science Fiction [ Who wants to live forever? | Old caps | New Worlds | Believe no one ]