D. G. Compton SF Gateway Omnibus: Synthajoy / the Steel Crocodile / Ascendancies - Couverture souple

Compton, D.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0575118105 ISBN 13 : 9780575118102

Editeur : Gateway, 2014

Synopsis

The Silent Multitude: Set in the near future, in the super-modern city of Gloucester, England, completely redesigned and rebuilt to the principles of scientific city planning". This gleaming city is threatened with extinction by a mysterious spore from space that brings mankind's proud structures crashing to the ground Synthajoy: Would you like to experience first-hand the emotions of a great artist the sublime peace of a saint the happiness of a child at Christmas? Try Sensitape. Or perhaps you had something more passionate in mind. Don't be shy. Ask for Sexitape. And for the true connoisseur we have the ultimate human experience: a distinguished blend of synthetic ecstasies. The world is not ready for it but perhaps you are. We call it Synthajoy. The Steel Crocodile: A Human crisis in a Computer world..."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

D.G. Compton is best known for his prescient 1974 novel, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, which predicted the 21st century's obsessions with media voyeurism and 'reality television'. It was filmed as DEATH WATCH in 1980 by Bertrand Tavernier. This omnibus collects three of his incisive SF novels, ASCENDANCIES, SYNTHAJOY and THE STEEL CROCODILE.

ASCENDANCIES: Into a future where a depleted fuel supply had the world spiralling down into grinding poverty and constant war came ... Moondrift. Mysterious white flakes of alien matter that was the perfect fuel - clean, powerful, dependable. But the aliens - or whatever they were - who sent Moondrift seemed to demand a heavy ransom in return...

SYNTHAJOY: Would you like to experience first-hand the emotions of a great artist, the sublime peace of a saint, the happiness of a child at Christmas? Try Sensitape. Or perhaps you had something more passionate in mind. Don't be shy. Ask for Sexitape. And for the true connoisseur, we have the ultimate human experience: a distinguished blend of synthetic ecstasies. The world is not ready for it, but perhaps you are. We call it Synthajoy.

THE STEEL CROCODILE: In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be. But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - not nearly as certain as the machine he's appointed to serve. And the right hand of science seldom knows what the left hand is doing...

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Guy Compton was born in London in 1930. His early works were crime novels published under the name 'Guy Compton', but he began producing SF as 'D.G. Compton' in 1965 with THE QUALITY OF MERCY. His 1970 novel THE STEEL CROCODILE received a NEBULA nomination, but it was 1974's THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE that made his reputation. Eerily predictive of the 21st century's obsessions with media voyeurism and 'reality television', it was filmed as DEATH WATCH in 1980. D.G. Compton lives in Maine, in the United States.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gateway
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0575118105
• ISBN 13: 9780575118102
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480