The Fledging Of Az Gabrielson

Author : Jay Amory
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575085985

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The Fledging of Az Gabrielson by Jay Amory Pdf

Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high above the clouds. Its a life of ease and airy beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity. And then one day he is picked out for a job. A job below the clouds. The system of massive automated elevators which send up everything the Airborn need to survive, are breaking down - and threatening to take the Airborn society with them. Someone has to go down to the Ground to find out what has happened and Az, with his wingless similarity to the prehistoric Groundlings, looks to be perfect for the task of hunting for answers beneath the clouds. But on the Ground, in the vast shadows of the cities, Az finds more questions than answers: a benighted people who worship a dim notion of the Airborn and aspire to be like them. A people who fill elevators with tributes to their winged deities. A people who are beginning to think their way of life is part of a very un-natural order of things. And a girl called Cassie Grubdollar, who's definitely no angel ...

Author : Jay Amory
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086098

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The Wingless Boy by Jay Amory Pdf

Gathered together in this superb value omnibus are the first two books in The Clouded World series. Written by debut novelist Jay Amory, these are fast-paced, thrilling fantasy adventures. Imagine a city high in the sky comprised of pristine white spires, bathed in glorious golden sunlight - a city above the cloud layer, looking down on the ever-changing cloud formations below. From up here, the worst thunderstorms are little but flashes of light amongst the cloud cover, their force directed away from the cities and the tiny two- and four-seater aircraft its inhabitants use for travel. The world below the clouds may be disturbed, but in the tranquil world above, populated by winged people, life is good. Life isn't so good for Azreal Gabrielson. He's one of the Airborn too. With a stretch and a beat of their eight-foot wings his people can flit effortlessly around their cities, living a life of airy ease and beauty ... and in this world Az is an oddity, a painfully isolated exception: Az Gabrielson is a wingless boy. And he's about to be sent on a mission.

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849971904

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The Hope by James Lovegrove Pdf

CLASSIC SF—NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME! The Hope is a vast ocean liner, five miles long and two miles wide and one mile high, which lurches through the waves on a voyage to nowhere, carrying a million passengers in her rusting belly. After some thirty years at sea, everyone aboard her has gone just a little bit loopy, and violent death has become a way of life. All sorts of horrors lurk in the ship’s darkest corners—rumours made flesh, unspeakable creatures, peripheral-vision insanities. The only certainty is this: the Hope, which was once a multimillionaire philanthropist’s dream, has become a floating nightmare. “As an allegory of late-20th-century existence, it catches admirably the rust, waste and putrescence of consumer ideals. I am glad to think that the 1990s will be decorated by more of Mr Lovegrove’s fiction.” The Spectator “Lovegrove’s controlled writing... the words accurate as assassin’s bullets... is the book’s best argument against the anarchy of the unleashed future that is depicted so vividly in this first and fierce effort.” The Sunday Times “Very gutsy first work with tremendous spark and imagination.” The Daily Telegraph

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849976626

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Age of Shiva by James Lovegrove Pdf

THE AGE OF WAR! Zachary Bramwell, better known as the comics artist Zak Zap, is pushing forty and wondering why his life isn’t as exciting as the lives of the superheroes he draws. Then he’s shanghaied by black-suited goons and flown to Mount Meru, a vast complex built atop an island in the Maldives. There, Zak meets a trio of billionaire businessmen who put him to work designing costumes for a team of godlike super-powered beings based on the ten avatars of Vishnu from Hindu mythology. The Ten Avatars battle demons and aliens and seem to be the saviours of a world teetering on collapse. But their presence is itself a harbinger of apocalypse. The Vedic “fourth age” of civilisation, Kali Yuga, is coming to an end, and Zak has a ringside seat for the final, all-out war that threatens the destruction of Earth.

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786180476

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Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove Pdf

CHILDREN OF THE GODS! Born of the Gods, created to be their champions, their names echo in eternity: Theseus, Perseus, Hippolyta, Heracles, Helen of Troy and all their half-mortal ilk. But the Age of Heroes is long past, and no more epics are told of their deeds. Blessed – and cursed – with eternal life, they have walked the Earth for millennia, doing their best to fit in among ordinary humans, taking new names and living new lives. And one by one, the demigods are meeting terrible, bloody ends. Now it’s up to Theseus, comfortably ensconced in New York and making his living as a crime fiction writer, to investigate the deaths. His search for the culprit draws him back into the lives of his dysfunctional extended family, and into a world of tragedy and long-held grudges that he thought, and hoped, he’d put behind him.

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849978781

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The James Lovegrove Collection, Volume 1 by James Lovegrove Pdf

DAYS Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Days is a gigastore the size of a small city, whose security are licensed to kill and whose seven owners brood in the penthouse, far removed from the desperate scramble of consumerism. But at what price commerce? Security man Frank has lost his reflection, Books are entering a localised war with Computers, and there is a riot in Third World Instruments. Time for another flash sale... UNTIED KINGDOM Nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award When the village of Downbourne is raided and schoolmaster Fen Morris’s wife Moira is snatched, there are no authorities to turn to. In the absence of its government – in exile in the Caribbean following the ‘Unlucky Gamble’ – and subject to random bombings and leaflet drops, the UK is lawless and falling apart. Their marriage was a disaster, but Fen sets out to recover her anyway; but does she even want rescuing?

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849974844

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Age of Voodoo by James Lovegrove Pdf

Lex Dove thought he was done with the killing game. A retired British wetwork specialist, he’s living the quiet life in the Caribbean, minding his own business. Then a call comes, with one last mission: to lead an American black ops team into a disused Cold War bunker on a remote island near his adopted home. The money’s good, which means the risks are high. Dove doesn’t discover just how high until he and his team are a hundred feet below ground, facing the horrifi c fruits of an experiment blending science and voodoo witchcraft. As if barely human monsters weren’t bad enough, a clock is ticking. Deep in the bowels of the earth, a god is waiting. And His anger, if roused, will be fearsome indeed.

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849977661

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World of Fire by James Lovegrove Pdf

WORLD OF FIRE! Dev Harmer, reluctant agent of Interstellar Security Solutions, wakes up in a newly cloned host body on the planet Alighieri, ready for action.An infernal world, so close to its sun that its surface is regularly baked to 1,000°C, hot enough to turn rock to lava. But deep underground there are networks of tunnels connecting colonies of miners who dig for the precious Helium-3. Polis+, the AI race who are humankind’s great galactic rivals, want to claim the planet’s mineral wealth for their own. All that stands between them and this goal is Dev. But as well as Polis+’s agents, there are giant moleworms to contend with, and a spate of mysterious earthquakes, and the perils of the surface where a man can be burned to cinders if he gets caught unprotected on the day side... “The story zooms along at a rip-roaring pace, told in an irreverent tone that perfectly matches the character of our hero. Planet Alighieri is rendered in such believable detail that I almost got a sweat on when Harmer got into trouble on the surface. Lovegrove has got things off to a brilliant start here.”– SF Crow’s Nest on World of Fire “I read this on holiday and it was perfect for kicking back, a throwback to the likes of Dumarest and James Bond. ****”– Theaker’s Quarterly on World of Fire

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849971706

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The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove Pdf

The Olympians appeared a decade ago, living incarnations of the Ancient Greek gods on a mission to bring permanent order and stability to the world. Resistance has proved futile, and now humankind is under the jackboot of divine oppression. Until former London police officer Sam Akehurst receives an invitation too tempting to turn down: the chance to join a small band of guerrilla rebels armed with high-tech weapons and battlesuits. Calling themselves the Titans, they square off against the Olympians and their ferocious mythological monsters in a war of attrition which some will not survive.

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849971942

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The Foreigners by James Lovegrove Pdf

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849976886

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The Complete Pantheon Series Volume 1 by James Lovegrove Pdf

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849971980

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Worldstorm by James Lovegrove Pdf

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849972000

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Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove Pdf

CLASSIC SF—NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME! After a series of disastrous political decisions the United Kingdom has finally fallen foul of the International Community. Ostracized and bombed at random, the country has fallen apart. With the infrastructure in ruins, tiny communities struggle on relying on ancient traditions and myth for their structure and identity. In the village of Downbourne the mayor has styled himself the Green Man. But even he is powerless to stop a raid on the village by a London based gang who kidnap a number of the village’s women. One of them is the schoolmaster’s wife. Their marriage was an arid disaster, but the schoolmaster feels bound to do the right thing and sets off on a journey through an England at once terrifying and magical to get her back. But does this particular damsel even want to be rescued?

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786181916

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Age of Legends by James Lovegrove Pdf

THE DEFENDERS OF THE LAND! As Britain struggles under a burgeoning fascist government, Prime Minister Derek Drake plays the man of the people, while simultaneously purging the country of “undesirables.” When bike courier and subversive graffiti artist Ajia Snell runs into trouble with the authorities, she finds herself recruited by living incarnations of Britain’s ancient legends, from Oberon, King of the Faeries to Robin Hood. As Drake tightens his grip on the country’s soul, only Ajia and her new allies can stop him…

Author : James Lovegrove
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849971928

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Days by James Lovegrove Pdf

CLASSIC SF—NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME! Welcome to the Days gigastore! Seven storeys high, two-and-a-half kilometres to a side. Within its walls, you can buy anything and everything! But there is a price to be paid... A savagely funny satire on a society obsessed with consumption, Days paints a picture of a future that is just around the corner. A remarkable feat of visionary writing—blackly funny, lyrical and tightly plotted—it affirmed James Lovegrove's position as one of the key writers of fantastic fiction in the UK today.