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Tau Zero (Paperback)
Poul Anderson
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This Hugo Award finalist, "justifiably regarded as a classic"
(SFReviews.net), is the tale of an epic space voyage where time
dilation goes horribly wrong. Aboard the spacecraft Leonora
Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have
embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty
light-years away. Since their ship is not capable of traveling
faster than light, the crew will be subject to the effects of time
dilation and relativity. They will age five years on board the ship
before reaching their destination, but thirty-three years will pass
on Earth. Experienced scientists and researchers, they have come to
terms with the time conditions of their space travel. Until . . .
the Leonora Christine passes through an uncharted nebula, which
damages the engine, making it impossible to decelerate the ship on
the second half of their trip. To survive, the crewmembers have no
choice but to bypass their destination and continue to accelerate
toward the speed of light. But how will they keep hope alive and
maintain order as they hurtle deeper into space with time passing
more and more rapidly, and their ultimate fate unknown? With its
combination of mind-blowing hard science and compelling human
drama, Tau Zero is "the ultimate hard science novel" (Mike
Resnick).
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Brain Wave (Paperback)
Poul Anderson
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R455
R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author: "A
panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent"
(Astounding Science Fiction). With "wonderfully logical detail . .
. exciting storytelling and moving characterization" (Anthony
Boucher), science fiction master Poul Anderson explores what
happens when the next stage of evolution is thrust upon humanity
and animals. As Earth passes out of a magnetic field that has
suppressed intelligence for eons, the mental capacity for all
mammals increases exponentially, radically changing the structures
of society. A mentally impaired farm worker finds himself capable
of more delicate and intelligent thoughts than he ever dreamed. A
young boy on holiday manages to discern the foundations of calculus
before breakfast. Animals that were seen as livestock and pets can
now communicate clearly with their owners and one another. And an
already brilliant physics researcher now uses his boundless
intellect to bring humankind to the stars--even as his wife plunges
into an existential crisis. For all of them, the world will never
be the same . . .
Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II
resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic
fantasy adventure. Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A
Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he
is wounded during an engagement with the enemy and awakens in an
unfamiliar parallel universe where the forces of Law are locked in
eternal combat with the forces of Chaos. Against a medieval
backdrop, brave knights must take up arms against magical creatures
of myth and faerie, battling dragons, trolls, werewolves, and
giants. Though Holger has no recollection of this world, he
discovers he is already well-known throughout the lands, a hero
revered as a Champion of Law. He finds weaponry and armor awaiting
him--precisely fitted to his form--and a shield with three hearts
and three lions emblazoned upon it. As he journeys through a realm
filled with wonders in search of the key to his past, Holger will
call upon the scientific knowledge of his home dimension, the
destinies of both worlds hanging in the balance. Before Thomas
Covenant, Roger Zelazny's Amber, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of
the Rings, the great Poul Anderson introduced readers to the Middle
World and the legendary hero Ogier the Dane. Inventive and
exciting, Three Hearts and Three Lions is a foray into fantasy that
employs touches of science fiction from an award-winning master of
the speculative.
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Hokas Pokas (Paperback)
Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson
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R448
R364
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When a human thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, it's time to get out a
straightjacket. But when a Hoka thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte,
you'd better believe it! Particularly since there'll be hundreds of
other Hokas around who know for a fact that they're the
Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth
aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty
light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so
(as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so
the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for
the crew. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged
when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration
continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding
through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the
blink of an eye ...
The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the
roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and
hell together ... But now the mighty sword is needed again to save
the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the
trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the
elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant, Bolverk, to make
the sword Thor broke whole again. But things are never easy, and
along the way Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard
the changeling, who took his place in the world of men. A superb
dark fantasy of the highest, and most Norse, order. THE BROKEN
SWORD is a fantasy masterpiece.
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