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  • Post Mortal Syndrome
    Barbara Lamar / Damien Broderick
    Attorney Jill Shannon’s clients include Blick Pharmaceuticals, which is pursuing research into life-extending drugs. Blick has reawakened the homicidal maniac Payback, whom they created twenty years earlier, to literally kill off the competition by targeting research scientists. Jill’s boyfriend, Paul Gibson, one of the scientists, is forced to inject them with an intelligence ...
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    23,73 €

  • Embarrass My Dog
    Damien Broderick
    Award-winning writer Dr. Damien Broderick gathers his most forthright articles from the 1960s and ’70s, on topics ranging from sex, politics, and religion to drugs and the way things were before the Internet, and caps them with sharp insights from today, looking back in amazement--and often with dismay or laughter. Great reading! ...
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    19,49 €

  • The Time Machine Hypothesis
    Damien Broderick
    Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard t...
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    39,40 €

  • Consciousness and Science Fiction
    Damien Broderick
    Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense. It reaches into that endless cosmos with the tools of rational investigation and storytelling. At the core of both science and science fiction is the engaged human mind--a consciousness that sees and feels and thinks and ...
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    39,58 €

  • Psience Fiction
    Damien Broderick
    Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth. The last century, however, saw, through John W. Campbell, the introduction of 'psience fiction,' which explores such themes of mental powers as telepathy, precognition of the future, teleportation, etc.--and symbolic machines t...
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    61,30 €

  • Other Spacetimes
    Damien Broderick / Van Ikin
    INTERVIEWS WITH WRITERS OF THE IMAGINATION Claw-marks in the foothills of spacetime: These are the first steps (and sometimes the last) of the Antipodean dreamers who have created a sort of parallel world of science fiction, fantasy, horror. Many of these fantasists are now established masters of the craft of imagination, well known beyond the shores of their home continent. ...
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    14,93 €

  • The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc.
    Damien Broderick / Rory Barnes
    'Before Isaac Asimov’s first novel Pebble in the Sky, there was 'Grow Old Along with Me,' its original version lost in a library vault for nearly 40 years.Before Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s masterpiece The City and the Stars there was Against the Fall of Night. Clarke wrote: 'I assumed that new version would completely replace the older novel, but [the original] showed no tendency t...
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    17,77 €

  • Beyond the Doors of Death
    Damien Broderick / Robert Silverberg
    Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. ***The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Broderick uses Robert Silverberg’s original novella as a starting point for a brilliant leap into the far future, widening the sco...
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    11,95 €

  • Valencies
    Damien Broderick / Rory Barnes
    In the year 4004 AD, the entire universe of habitable worlds has been filled with human beings, thanks to an ancient teleport network and unlimited growth. Humans live on more than a hundred quadrillion terraformed planets, all woven into a bureaucratic and restrictive Empire. VALENCIES tracks a frustrated group of libertarian anarchists on the marginal planet Victoria. Kael, s...
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    17,64 €

  • New Worlds
    Damien Broderick / John Boston
    In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the 'New Wave.' This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick’s concludi...
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    20,55 €

  • Building New Worlds, 1946-1959
    Damien Broderick / John Boston
    Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today’s science fiction. Enthralling and amusing, it’s written with affection and wit. This is no dry, modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah celebration of the 'Good Old Days.' Here is a candid and astute reader’s response to a magazine that, by today’s standards, w...
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    20,56 €

  • Strange Highways
    Damien Broderick / John Boston
    'Science Fantasy' blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swan...
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    20,42 €

  • Adrift in the Noosphere
    Barbara Lamar / Damien Broderick / Paul Di Filippo
    In his Foreword, Rich Horton says: 'First rate stories...''Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order' is a clever and very funny time travel romp; 'The Beancounter’s Cat' is set in a far future with Clarkean science sufficiently advanced to appear magical; 'Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone' (with Barbara Lamar) is another look at the mystery of human dest...
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    17,64 €

  • Zones
    Damien Broderick / Rory Barnes
    Jenny Kane loves weird science--but it’s gone way, WAY out of control. Her mother’s moved out, her dad’s still moping around, and she’s not sure how to cope any longer. And she keeps getting these weird phone calls from a scientist named Rod who’s...where?...when?--another time zone? Another time altogether? Another reality? But that’d be crazy, wouldn’t it? She also has the st...
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    17,68 €

  • The Qualia Engine
    Damien Broderick
    Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist, 2010A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in SF, 2010***'The Qualia Engine' is a worthy addition to the long line of superman-in-hiding stories that stretches all the way back to Olaf Stapledon, with notable stops along the way… A dense story with a rich nougat vein of well-observed human emotion. —Gardner Dozois, Locus***Sharpl...
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    20,16 €

  • Alien Starswarm / Human’s Burden (Wildside Double #6)
    Damien Broderick / Robert Sheckley / Rory Barnes
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles' (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the sixth Wildside Double.ALIEN STARSWARM, by Robert SheckleySalvatore commands the battleship Endymion. He’s seen his share of battles and fought them bravely, too. So he doesn’t hesitate when beautiful Princess Hatari pleads for his help. She wants to regain her throne, but it may...
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    18,50 €

  • Skiffy and Mimesis
    Damien Broderick
    This second anthology of the best of Australian SF Review includes pieces by Gregory Benford, Janeen Webb, Lucius Shepard, Jenny Blackford, George Turner, Yvonne Rousseau, Douglas Barbour, and others--writing about Watchmen, cyberpunk, steampunk, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lucius Shepard. Complete with introduction, bibliography, and index. 3 ...
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    18,53 €

  • Dark Gray
    Damien Broderick / Rory Barnes
    My father is the Rev. Daimon Keith. At the age of twenty, he was abducted near a school playground by small gray aliens. Indeed, Daimon was taken up into UFOs not just that once, but from infancy, and over and again. It caused him to devote his middle years to the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ, Time Traveler, and later Scionetics.Rosa 'Flake' Rosch is a postmodern...
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    19,99 €

  • Climbing Mount Implausible
    Damien Broderick
    Climbing Mount Implausible showcases a writer’s growth though nearly fifty years of questing into the future. It includes his first published stories, plus detailed notes on his own evolution as a writer, his recent Philip K. Dick tribute, 'Dead Air,' and an outrageously funny collaboration with Paul Di Filippo, 'Cockroach Love.' 3 ...
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    17,61 €

  • Chained to the Alien
    Damien Broderick
    This selection of the best critical articles from the well-known literary magazine, Australian SF Review, includes essays by John Bangsund, John Baxter, Martin Bridgstock, Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, John Foyster, Bruce Gillespie, Yvonne Rousseau, Norman Talbot, Michael J. Tolley, George Turner, and Janeen Webb, discussing the fiction of Robert A. Hein...
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    17,56 €

  • THE JUDAS MANDALA
    Damien Broderick
    Maggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat, attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, she's flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull- Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power-she learns that she is history's first true time traveler, hunted...
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    19,47 €

  • Unleashing the Strange
    Damien Broderick
    Novelist and scholar Damien Broderick offers an exhilarating report on the state of science fiction at the start of the millennium. In the 21st century, we see a new wave rising in SF: it’s complex, transreal, slipstreamy, post-postmodern. It unleashes the strange! 3 ...
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    22,12 €

  • The Dreaming
    Damien Broderick
    Selected as one of the top 100 science fiction novels of the century! Updated and revised edition of award-winner The Dreaming Dragons. An anthropologist travels to the central Australian desert to search for the source of an aboriginal myth; he suspects the terrible 'Rainbow Serpent' is connected to the sacred Uluru rock formations. The holographic 'Gate' he discovers with his...
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    21,44 €

  • I’m Dying Here
    Damien Broderick / Rory Barnes
    'This is a comic, crazy, original crime novel. You won’t find another one like it this year, or, more likely, ever.' Bill CriderR. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom’s *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his pho...
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    20,14 €

  • Uncle Bones
    Damien Broderick
    Four long adventures by a master story-teller. Uncle Bones Medical research brings you back from death, but only just. Nanotech turns you into a Stinky, shunned by the world. And you're only 15 years old. The Magi The Jesuit starship St. Ignatius Loyola, in exile from post-religion High Earth, finds a deserted city on a distant world. Have its people gone in search of their R...
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    17,96 €

  • Ferocious Minds
    Damien Broderick
    Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverted into the bloody excess of the French Revolution. Arguably, its idealism and noble goals led directly, and shockingly, to th...
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    21,22 €

  • x,y,z,t
    Damien Broderick
    Damien Broderick `has had a major impact as an Australian SF writer since 1964. He is undoubtedly the leading Australian theorist of the SF genre’ (Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, Sean McMullen, Strange Constellations). Now, Broderick draws upon his skills as both critic and novelist to analyze science fiction of the last two decades, and its earlier roots. The book proposes sf as...
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    19,65 €

  • X, Y, Z, T
    Damien Broderick
    Damien Broderick `has had a major impact as an Australian SF writer since 1964. He is undoubtedly the leading Australian theorist of the SF genre’ (Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, Sean McMullen, Strange Constellations). Now, Broderick draws upon his skills as both critic and novelist to analyze science fiction of the last two decades, and its earlier roots. The book proposes sf as...
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    34,89 €

  • The Spike
    Damien Broderick
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    24,29 €

  • Transrealist Fiction
    Damien Broderick
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    121,97 €


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