Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective [...]
When the Sunseeker laves Earth, bound for the planet called "Glory", its crew knows they will never see home again. None of them can ever have imagined, however, what they will find along the way. A gargantuan object, with its own star nettled inside. The bowl shaped structure is following the same [...]
When the crew of the Sunseeker investigates a gigantic, bowl-shaped object with a sun at the centre, their landing party is split into two groups. One is captured, while the other is pursed across a deadline landscape. Both seek to unravel the mysteries of the gargantuan artefact known as the SHIPST[...]
The Ringworld is dying. And this time even Louis Wu - captive of the hyper-intelligent alien Tunesmith - may be unable to save it. Even if Louis can escape he will then have to survive in a galaxy ravaged by interstellar war and deadly political intrigue. For the Ringworld is no longer a secret and [...]
Ringworld: the most stunning artifact in known space, an articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area. Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstas[...]
Sociophonetics is a sub-branch of phonetics that has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Advances in speech science and technological simulations allow increasingly sophisticated studies of language contact and change. Particularly at the level of pronunciation, these studies show that lan[...]
This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies. But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen before. The stranger has come from nowhere and i[...]
After spending more than four and a half million years trying to fix the flaws in the world He created, God decides to take a short, well-deserved rest. When He leaves His son Jesus in charge, everything seems to be right on track; it is the beginning of the Renaissance, and the works of Copernicus,[...]
Steven Stelfox er 27 år, ansat som talentspejder hos et pladeselskab og på evig jagt efter det hit, der kan forgylde karrieren og sikre hans skræmmende forbrug af penge, stoffer, sprut og prostituerede. Intet er for depraveret for Stelfox, mens han i en kokaintåge zapper fra Londons unde[...]