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Tangents Eternity Eon Blood Music Beyond Heaven's River

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Tangents
Multi-award-winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious and imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon and Eternity.
This, his first collection of short stories includes two tales that won both Hugo and nebula Awards: the title story, a remarkable account of contact with beings from another dimension, and the original short version of his classic novel Blood Music.
'A writer of compelling talent' New Statesman
'One of the grand contemporary masters of SF' Brian Aldiss

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

Eternity
Here, from the other side of time, come Thistledown, the asteroid starship of a future that is not quite our future.
Gaia, a parallel world where Alexander the Great’s empire has ruled for two thousand years;
And The Way, an infinite corridor through space-time which traverses and encompasses whole universes.
And as the strands of these mysteries are unravelled, so the ordering and the end of mankind – and our entire Universe – come into question…
Eternity is the epic sequel to Eon , Greg Bear’s triumphant bestselling cosmological space opera
‘Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet’ The Times

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2002)

Eon
The Stone is a vast artifact - a hollowed out asteroid - which has entered the Solar System from somewhere. Inside are a series of chambers to be explored. But the Stone contains more mysteries than can easily be understood. Within it, space and time are distorted, to a degree which only becomes apparent when scientists unlock the seventh chamber. The asteroid is longer on the inside than on the outside. The seventh chamber goes on forever.
The Series Sf Masterworks is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.
‘An amazing list - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF’ Iain M. Banks
‘A triumph of soaring imagination and huge detail. The science fiction novel of the year’ Daily Mail
‘Eon catapults Bear into the front ranks of late twentieth century SF’ Observer
‘Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet in the field of epic SF’ The Times
'A work of remarkable vision' The Times

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Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Paperback Gollancz Millenium (2001)

Blood Music
Virgil Ulam is a maverick researcher working on biochips which will use DNA as a means of information processing. Ignoring guidelines for genetic research, he goes further, producing intelligent cellular matter which can outperform laboratory rats. On being found out and ordered to destroy the experiment, he injects himself with some of the culture, and walks out carrying a seed which will develop far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.
‘A stunning near future , always chillingly believable. It is rare that one can be sure that a book is destined to become a classic. Blood Music undoubtedly will’ Neil Gaiman
‘A work of thoroughgoing excellence’ Gregory Benford
‘A dazzling of disciplined imagination’ Poul Anderson
`Arthur C. Clarke’s most formidable rival yet’ The Times
‘Classic science fiction’ New Scientist

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Beyond Heaven's River
Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honourable, to go down with the mortally wounded carrier HIRYU. And when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway, he was sure he’d made the wrong choice: now he would certainly die, but it would be alone and without honour.
But the aliens did not kill him. Instead, they gave him a world of his own, a world in which he was supreme master, able to recreate and alter history, to indulge any fantasy.
Then suddenly, he was once again amongst humans - for whom World War II was a half-forgotten memory, four centuries past….
‘Arthur C. Clarke's most formidable rival yet’ The Times
‘One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time’ Locus

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