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  • Unknown Armies
    Richard Quarry
    'I made San Francisco for the Summer of Love and Saigon for the Tet Offensive. I’m not that easily impressed anymore.'But when when ex-MP Lonnie Davis agrees to track down missing counter-culture acid queen Mara Isaacs, the two find themselves on a wild death ride fleeing police, bikers, and bounty hunters in a wild cross-country death ride that proves collateral damage begins ...
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    21,12 €

  • Devolution Day and Other F&SF Stories
    Richard Quarry
    Dinosaurs? Rogue gerbils with ... slingshots? A trip to the library turns into a survival epic when devolution strikes. A navigation glitch strands the crew of a tramp time-freighter in 1957 Utah. To earn the time-credits to move on they must sell their cargo - 12th-century Frisian mead meant for 2025 Seattle, city of microbrews. Only Utah in the age of Mickey Mouse ears and ca...
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    18,00 €

  • Soldier of Discontent and Other Stories
    Richard Quarry
    A scintillating, action-packed anthology of crime throughout history.Soldier of DiscontentWhen the mayor of a turn-of-the-century logging town investigates an arson blamed on an IWW agitator, she risks becoming a target herself as she uncovers a desperate scheme of seduction, revenge, and murder. The Horns of HathorThe Pharaoh Akhenaten has just decreed that in place of Hathor,...
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    13,85 €

  • Lord Under London And Other Cases of Nat Frayne
    Richard Quarry
    Lord Under LondonWhen a methane explosion in the London sewers spews up a much-mangled body, Victorian-era Detective Inspector Nat Frayne finds an ancient Hunter watch pointing to the mysterious disappearance of an aristocrat from an age before the tunnels even existed. As he investigates further a string of fresh corpses start to turn up. Forced to descend back into the depths...
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    16,27 €

  • The Dread Men and Other Cases of Nat Frayne
    Richard Quarry
    Victorian-era police detective Nat Frayne leans more toward fists and fast dealing than the strict letter of the law. But in these three cases Frayne goes up against adversaries who may be even tougher and slicker.In The Case of Dancing Kali, the apparent appearance of a murderous gang of Indian thuggees terrorizes London. Frayne, however, follows his own instincts, which lead ...
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    16,21 €

  • Absent From Felicity
    Richard Quarry
    John Gottschalk did not expect to find himself the sole survivor of a mission into a black hole.Nor did he expect to find any survivors aboard the mangled habitat swallowed up years before. And he most certainly did not expect to find the original Earth colony cowering under the tyranny of Ophelian mercenaries, the biggest, baddest, most studiously sociopathic soldiers in the g...
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    18,92 €

  • The God Machine
    Richard Quarry
    They took his body. They took his mind. The Evolved even took his love, and transformed it into hate. In return, they gave Sahan Kotori an artificial body. In this form he leads the Grinder troops in a death-hunt for Arvada Sattar, leader of the Peregrine revolt and Sahan’s former lover. As Arvada hunts him in turn. Through battle after battle, with the future of humanity depen...
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    15,90 €

  • Grinder
    Richard Quarry
    He remembers ... dying. Remembers the ship blown open around him. Remembers calling out ARVADA even as the sun burned out his eyes. Then death. But now a fragment of awareness creeps into ... something. Something with no feeling. No body. No hands or legs. No eyes, no ears. No mouth. No breath. Only a great black void. Then the cry: ARVADA! And with it, hate. Through many batt...
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    13,81 €

  • What Rough Beast
    Richard Quarry
    Frank Barton lives life on the run. Many lives. Ever since the Civil War, when instead of dying from his wounds he found himself transformed into a snake crawling across the battlefield, absorbing life from others. For years Frank struggles against the killer serpent inside him that won’t let him die or grow old. Sometimes, for a while, he wins. Then the bad dreams return, peop...
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    23,12 €

  • The Evolved
    Richard Quarry
    Two centuries ago, Earth forced a rebellious party of space colonists to flee the solar system in a jury-rigged habitat never meant for interstellar travel. Now they’ve come roaring back. Existing as a Group Consciousness, the race calling itself 'the Evolved' quickly sends the navies of Earth and her colonies reeling. Fast Cruiser Captain Arvada Sattar, of the Peregrine colony...
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    15,80 €

  • Blue Dread
    Richard Quarry
    1722. The Golden Age of Piracy. When mutineers cast her husband and the other officers of a British frigate adrift in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Meg Eaton must find some way to hold them off. Forced by intrigue to leave London in a rush, Meg, a high-priced courtesan, married Elias Bramwell, bosun aboard a British frigate. Petty officers can bring their wives on board, and ...
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    22,77 €

  • Odysseus and the Eye of Odin
    Richard Quarry
    Gullveig the Gold-Witch just stole the Golden Apples that keep Odin, Thor, and the other Norse gods immortal. But the Aesir are too stoned to care. They’re getting their jollies chasing after Fafnir, the poison-spouting dragon. Meanwhile Gullveig, the evil Loki, and the Dark Elves (no, not the unisex and flower-power kind) plot to bring on Ragnarok. Their idea of fun.Needing he...
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    17,86 €

  • Man Of Many Turnings
    Richard Quarry
    When the goddess Hathor suddenly morphs from a cow into a flying, fire-breathing lion intent on devouring the whole world, Isis and Thoth need a hero. So they send for Odysseus. Or rather, they send a time storm around to sweep him up from his quest to return home. Along with a balloon ship to speed things up.Though the last word in contemporary transportation, the balloon ship...
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    16,73 €

  • Geneslide
    Richard Quarry
    You don’t miss your genes till they turn prehistoric. In a last half-second effort to stave off nuclear holocaust, the Timekeeper starts evolution running backward. And man, is he pissed. So pissed, he’s decided to backdate humans right out of existence. As people morph in and and out of prehistoric animals, a ragtag band led by Galloping Ariadne and Philip the Assault Otter ca...
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    20,11 €

  • The Outcasts
    Richard Quarry
    An alien ship adrift in space, storm-wracked and abandoned. Harmless? So it appears, though the sleepers suspended in cryo inspire alarm. Definitely humanoid, but mutated toward a skeletal, almost insectoid look. And why those over-sized jaws and teeth? After installing fail-safes on the cryo chamber, the crew begin to explore the ship. Though badly damaged, the alien ship reve...
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    12,90 €

  • Midnight Choir
    Richard Quarry
    Seattle, 1907. 'The wickedest city in America.' - McClure’s Magazine.Honey Jack Gallagher serves as brass-knuckled enforcer for a family of tough Irish cops who maintain law and order in Seattle’s wild 'Restricted District' - for a price.Adrienne Cody fled her lumber-town upbringing in search of freedom. Which she finds, in gritty form, as an idealistic young visiting nurse.The...
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    21,17 €

  • Point Of No Return
    Richard Quarry
    An O’Neill Cylinder jury-rigged into a generation ship creaks, groans, and stutters through deep space searching for some haven it can’t possibly reach. For the scientifically oriented Riggers, the habitat’s only hope lies in discovering some technological miracle. Accordingly they push their programs of brain enhancement toward ever more speculative - and dangerous - frontiers...
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    13,06 €

  • The Big Empty
    Richard Quarry
    In space, when accidents happen, they go exponential fast. Faster than eyes and ears can keep up. Stick as many bells, whistles, and readouts into a suit as you like. You’ll still die with your mind trying to play catch-up. Riggers, those EVA workers who build and maintain the space stations, call it 'death by task saturation.' But suppose you could practice echo-location with ...
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    13,75 €