Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise.The human settlers - farmers and scientists - are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life - never entirely safe - is changing in unpredictable ways, and the imported plantings wither and die. And so the order is given - Paradise will be abandoned. All personnel will be removed and reassigned. And all human presence on the planet will be disestablished....

Vengeance of the oppressed...Pawl Paxwax was now Master of the eleven human families who rule the galaxy, and free to marry his loved one, the remarkable Laurel Beltane.But Pawl's happiness was to be short-lived. The many oppressed alien species who paid dearly for humanity's triumph were about to rise up in bloody retribution - with Pawl as their unwitting instrument.The Fall Families is the epic sequel to Master of Paxwax, an extraordinary interstellar revenge tra...

It is the far distant future. Humanity has spread across the galaxy, systematically wiping out, imprisoning and enslaving every species, hostile or not. Now the galaxy is ruled by the Eleven Families, each supreme in its own, vast realm.But beneath the surface of one dead and obscure planet lie the seeds of rebellion. For here, the survivors of the ravaged alien races have taken refuge, to plot their revenge on their barbaric conquerors - and the downfall of the human empire.

'Chevalier & Gawayn fulfils all the requirements a reader of speculative fantasy could hope for' Landfall ReviewThe earth has been ruined; plague is rife and people huddle behind city walls, underground or in remote villages. There are no animals, no birds - and no freedom. And the divide between rich and poor is growing ever greater.Into this world comes Chevalier, an unassuming tax inspector by day but a secret law-break...

The Nightingale was the most advanced craft in the entire fleet of Mercy ships belonging to the Gentle Order of St Francis Dionysos. On its maiden voyage, its life bays packed with refugees, the Nightingale disappeared. Despite strenuous efforts no trace of it could be found.Then, a year later, a distress signal was heard and the Nightingale reappeared. It was damaged in ways that meant its survival in space was a miracle. But of its previous cargo of life-forms there was no sign. ...

Blue Genes...Ape-like and with one arm replaced by a claw, the not-quite-human Angelo and his beautiful female partner Ariadne are genetically bred rescuers programmed to travel vast distances through space in suspended animation to bring back Pioneers - explorers sent out from Earth generations ago to settle other planets. The latest mission is to rescue Pioneer Murray from the planet La Plage and to return to Earth where - as usual - decades have passed while they have been trave...

An extra-terrestrial way of death.When legendary linguist Marius Thorndyke visits the bizarre planet of Pe-Ellia, he is inexorably sucked into the local way of life, of sex, of death.Nearly twice our size, powerful, intelligent, skin-changing yet roughly humanoid, the alien Pe-Ellians are vulnerable - and deadly.

Die Herrschaft der Menschen ist zu brechenNoch beherrschen die Elf Großen Familien die von den Menschen eroberte Galaxis. Die anderen intelligenten Spezies, immer wieder von den Menschen brutal dezimiert und versklavt, leben im Verborgenen. Der „Innere Kreis“, eine Geheimorganisation, der Vertreter aller Intelligenzwesen, auch Menschen, angehören, arbeitet daran, die Macht der Familien zu brechen. Denn der Friede unter den machthungrigen Herrschern ist äußerst brüc...

Sie wurden ausgesandt, um die Sterne zu erforschen. Jetzt kehren sie zurückDie Pioniere, genetisch veränderte Kundschafter, wurden einst ins All ausgesandt, um fremde Planeten im Hinblick auf eine Besiedelung durch den Menschen zu untersuchen. Ihr Erbgut wurde so modifiziert, dass sie mit nahezu allen Umwelteinflüssen fertig werden können. Doch die Expansion der Menschheit ins All fand niemals statt: Die Erde schlitterte in eine ökologische Katastrophe, die sich au...

Was wäre, wenn … ?Es ist unsere Zeit, aber nicht unsere Welt: Die römischen Legionen haben Großbritannien nie verlassen. Noch immer herrschen sie über ein Weltreich und sichern es mit moderner Technik und Skrupellosigkeit. Eboracum, das wir als York kennen, ist die Hauptstadt Britanniens. Solarbetriebene Fahrzeuge transportieren Bürger und Güter auf schnurgeraden Straßen von Stadt zu Stadt und durchqueren dabei die Wälder. Außerhalb von Eboracum steht der Kampfdom,...

Britannia is a land of forests - it is said a man can walk from the walls of Eboracum to the southern sea without leaving the shade of the greenwood - inhabited by wildcats, wolves and bears, as well as by the descendants of the folk who built Stonehenge. Traversing the forests, linking the Roman cities, are the straight Roman roads on which solar-powered aircars travel from the far north of Britain to expressways that link with London, Rome, Constantinople and beyond.In this world...

Six stories from Phillip Mann, taken from his long and varied career.Includes stories from the Out of Time Cafe, a very unusual refuge from reality. It attracts people afflicted with a deep malaise. It offers what seems from the outside to be sanctuary, but it can be subversive too, for on entering the cafe, one gives up a certain amount of independence, and before one knows it one is trapped. There is no escape... save one: the lift which services the cellars descends... but no on...