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Released late last year and inspired by the science fiction poems of Edwin Morgan, some of which are presented here, this collection is subtitled contemporary science fiction poems
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Described as “Britain’s best selling science fiction author,” Peter F Hamilton is a prolific writer of epic space opera. Best known for the Greg Mandel Trilogy, the Night’s
It’s not often a debut novel gathers the attention that greeted the launch of The Quantum Thief two years ago, a book that received critical praise despite its
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Much as global austerity has forced cuts to the space programmes of the major nations, diverting funds to more immediate concerns of continuity and survival, so has science
A writer of science fiction since the early sixties, it was for his 1970 novel that Larry Niven won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as he expanded the universe