
Bob Shaw
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Bob Shaw SF Gateway Omnibus
From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the work…
Dagger of the Mind
'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description.…
Killer Planet
Remote, mysterious and deadly, Verdia is a world from which no one has ever returned. But Jan Hazard is convinced his brother could still be…
The Wooden Spaceships
Twenty-four years have passed since Toller Maraquine led the population of Land to the sister planet of Overland. Somehow, those left behind have become immune…
Warren Peace: Dimensions
Warren Peace joined the Space Legion to forget - and forget what it was he wanted to forget. In his quest to find out who…
Orbitsville Judgement
Orbitsville is the scene of two of Bob Shaw's most successful novels and is possibly the most gigantic artefact ever dreamed up by an SF…
The Fugitive Worlds
The opening of The Fugitive Worlds finds Toller Maraquine II - grandson of the hero of The Ragged Astronauts and The Wooden Spaceships - bemoaning…
The Ceres Solution
This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted…
Night Walk
For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp…
The Shadow of Heaven
Those who tried never returned, and those who didn't, always wondered what they were missing by not attempting the perilous journey to 'Heaven'. The official…
Medusa's Children
What unfathomed secrets lay sleeping in this eerie world of water? The Clan knew almost nothing about the giant sphere of water they inhabited, and…
The Two Timers
Defying time, Jack Breton crosses into a parallel world to regain Kate - the wife who, nine years earlier, was found raped and strangled in…
The Palace of Eternity
Shrouded by its shell of drifting lunar fragments, the planet Mnemosyne is a refuge for creative artists and poets, a place isolated from the desperate,…
One Million Tomorrows
The Price of Eternal Life In the 22nd Century, no one had to die of old age: an immortality drug was available to all. Its…
Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
Thirteen fantastical tales, including What Time Do You Call This? - a wildly ironic story about a bank robber who shuttles to an alternate universe…
A Better Mantrap
A brilliant collection of original stories. A predatory alien accidentally teleported to Earth. A mad scientist and his imprisoned ghost. A space traveller returns to…
Fire Pattern
When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reation is to…
The Peace Machine
Lucas Hutchman is the Ground Zero Man The man who has his finger on the button, the man who can destroy the world - or…
Who Goes Here?
Shot at by aliens, eaten up by monsters, frozen up, burned up and shipped all over the galaxy¿ war was one game Private Peace didn't…
Ship of Strangers
The chronicle of adventures of the survey ship Sarafand as it journeys through space exploring and mapping newly-discovered planets. The mission brings them into contact…
The Ragged Astronauts
Land and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species,…
Orbitsville Departure
Two hundred years ago mankind found Orbitsville, a vast sphere whose habitable inner surface comprised living space equivalent to five billion Earths. The resulting migration…
Cosmic Kaleidoscope
The second collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of Orbitsville. Nine stories demonstrate Shaw's superb imaginative range and cynically humorous approach to the…
A Wreath of Stars
Thornton's Planet is an anti-neutrino planet detected on its approach to Earth. It can be seen only through the newly developed magniluct lenses and its…
Orbitsville
Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth's tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System. And discovers the almost unimaginably vast spherical structure…