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Barrington J. Bayley

    9 avril 1937 – 14 octobre 2008

    Bayley s'est imposé comme une figure importante du mouvement New Wave de la science-fiction. Ses premières nouvelles figuraient régulièrement dans l'influente revue New Worlds, puis dans diverses anthologies de poche. Connu pour une approche sombre et pessimiste de ses romans, son œuvre a été citée comme influente sur les générations d'écrivains suivantes. La voix distinctive de Bayley et ses visions mélancoliques ont laissé une marque indélébile sur le genre.

    The Zen Gun
    Eye of Terror
    The Astounding Jason Hyde
    The Rod of Light
    The Grand Wheel
    Si j'étais une araignée
    • The Grand Wheel

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control. But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse. There was, it seemed, a similar gambling combine in the rest of the galaxy, bigger by far than the little group of stars held by Earthlings. And the Wheel wanted a cut in this. So Cheyne Scarne found himself selected to be humanity's own player in a game in which nobody knew the value of the cards and the rules of the game were infinitely variable!

      The Grand Wheel
      3,4
    • The Astounding Jason Hyde

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Accidental exposure to a form of natural radiation had caused scientist Jason Hyde's eyes to turn colourless and emit blue rays which gave him the power to see through solid objects and to read the thoughts of human beings. Hyde has dedicated his life to investigating strange phenomena and protecting the world from all manner of abnormal threats!

      The Astounding Jason Hyde
      2,4
    • Eye of Terror

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      As the Imperium's war-fleets launch a mission into the heart of Chaos, rogue trader Maynard Rugolo searches for wealth and power on the fringe worlds of the distant realm, until he encounters the devastating powers of Chaos.

      Eye of Terror
      3,5
    • The Zen Gun

      • 159pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      The novel about: the absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist...The sub-human who found it and tried to use it...The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet...The widening rim in the space-time continuum...The brief cosmic empire of the pigs...The theory of gravitaitational recession...The super-samurai who served the zen-gunner...The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire...And many more "nova" ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."

      The Zen Gun
      3,5