Bøger af Ben Jeapes

In this collection by Ben Jeapes-a bullied schoolboy escapes into his own future-the spirit of Karl Marx lives on in a bolshie artificial intelligence-digital cats prowl a computer network to keep it safe from intruders-a network of grandmothers patrols our streets very, very slowly-and a man is put on trial for his life by aliens who barely understand human law, yet alone human nature.Plus twelve more stories, including one never before seen in print. These seventeen stories represent the complete early work of Ben Jeapes - at least, as complete as he is prepared to let anyone see without considerably more money exchanging hands than you have paid so far.

Jim Hawkins witnessed murder and betrayal on Treasure Island, and vowed he would never return. Four years later, Jim is old enough to make his own way in the world, and determined to put his wealth to good use. But fate and the press gang have other ideas, and his reputation goes before him, thanks to the bragging memoir he wrote of the Treasure Island expedition. Jim's past catches up with him, along with friends and enemies that he never knew he had, on board the most mysterious and terrible of all His Majesty's ships of war: H.M.S. Barabbas.

The first Ted Gorse adventure - a contemporary fantasy starring Salisbury's unlikeliest hero. On Ted's first day at work he sees an apparition in the Old George Mall. This is not a good start. The job is meant to keep him out of trouble ...His parents have left him in charge of home and the cat for a week. His brother has been catatonic in the hospice for the last four years and he has a final warning from the police hanging over his head. Ted just wants to keep his head down, get a girlfriend, be a good human being, and become a software millionaire, not necessarily in that order. The Thief and the Witch, who wield forces that have shaped his life since before he was born, have other ideas. For them, Ted is the key to destroying the world, or to saving it.

The sequel to His Majesty's Starship is filled with complicated politics, ingeniously different aliens and brutal fire fights.Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is part of a multi-species observation team on a hidden base in a distant solar system, when they find themselves under attack by the very aliens they were meant to be watching. Joel and his reluctant partner, Boon Round of the First Breed, must explore the parameters of trust in a lethal confrontation with a deeply alien third species: one with a proven predilection for xenocide on a planetary scale. Meanwhile the humans and the Rusties of the Commonwealth rush to their rescue - but as it turns out, are they any better?

The second Ted Gorse Adventure, sequel to THE TEEN, THE WITCH & THE THIEF. It is the week before Christmas, and Ted's life is roughly back on course after the events of the summer. Personal loss, the brief ability tocommand the world-destroying Knowledge, and a showdown with the mad magician who had shaped his life are behind him. And then the King appears in Salisbury. Who is the King? No one seems to know, but he rules the city, and the city is happy to be ruled. Even Ted's nearest and dearest are under his spell. It seems the only person able to disobey him is Ted himself. The King wants Ted, and he doesn't wish him well.

Captaining HMSS Ark Royal as part of Earth's first interstellar delegation should be an honour. Try telling that to Michael Gilmore.His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is ready to mutiny if Ark Royal engages its weaponry. The ship's A.I. seems to have turned renegade. And the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.And it's altogether possible that they're heading into some kind of trap ..."One of the best first contact books in a long while - a gripping, logical, original and fundamentally optimistic retake on one of SF's richest themes." - Alastair Reynolds"A veritable fount of plot, characterisation and intrigue, with some astoundingly original ideas." - SFX"Bursting with fun and energy." - Interzone"A great story, wonderful aliens, fine writing. Ben Jeapes is a name to watch for." - David Feintuch

Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the full might of the powerful Holekhors as alien airships fly in the skies over seventeenth century London. This is an extraordinary and thrilling novel, entirely original, and based in one of the most interesting periods of English history. Read about what MIGHT have happened in the seventeenth century - life could have been very different for us all-

His last thought, as the stun charges lanced through him and he felt his body arch and then start its slow, dreamlike tumble down the stairs, was:What did I do wrong? Rico Garron is in trouble -- again. What starts out as a routine expedition back to five thousand BC, turns into the first murder investigation for hundreds of years. A complex spiral of subterfuge, intrigue and powerplay begins to unravel, and now the entire future of the world is at stake . . .

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