Michael Coney Libros

Call them the spare parts of people. They chose the risk - jail for convicted crimes or semi-freedom as someone's bonded servant for the same term. The price was that they were body insurance. If their master lost a leg or an internal organ, they would have to supply the missing part. That was the risk. Sagar used bondsmen in his other-world farm where he raised exotic alien pelts to sell to the rich. He had no thoughts on the bondsmen problem, pro or con. But when Carioca Jones, 3-V star, visited him he met her bonded companion, the lovely girl with the musical talent. It's dangerous to fall in love with a bondsmaiden. Doubly so when her mistress is in love with you. Triply so when it might set off the social explosion that had been smouldering beneath the delicately balanced surface of their post-cataclysmic Peninsula.

The planet Arcadia was on the verge of economic collapse. Its human colony had been decimated by the strange Relay Effect; in the aftermath, still more colonists were leaving for other worlds. The Hetherington Organisation promised to change that. If the remaining colonists put themselves entirely in their hands for a five-year period, they would transform Arcadia into the most prosperous planet settled by mankind, while preserving its great natural beauty. It was an offer the Arcadians could not possibly refuse, for the alternative, after all, was an accelerating slide into poverty and, eventually, savagery. Only when the Hetherington Organisation's first cargo ships arrived, unloading a huge stream of brontomeks - huge robot agricultural machines, heavily armoured - and an army of amorphs, aliens who were capable of moulding themselves into human form, did the colony begin to realise what it had committed itself to. Brontomek! is a sequel to two earlier books, Syzygy and Mirror Image. Like it's predecessors it is an ingenious, adventurous tale of the type which has rapidly made Coney one of SF's foremost entertainers.

A young boy's life is upended after the arrival of his grandfather, who is hiding a terrifying secret in this sweltering southern gothic horror, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw and John Langan.

The Planet Arcadia has six moons, describing erratic orbits. But once every fifty-two years, the Moons of Arcadia come together in a constellation that creates havoc on the surface--raging tides, storms, and worse. And meanwhile the Moons grown closer.

Wettlauf gegen die Zeit Arkadia ist ein erdähnlicher Planet, aber zu neun Zehnteln von Wasser. Alle 52 Jahre stehen die sechs Monde des Planeten in einer Reihe. Dann werden die Küsten des kleinen Kontinents von einer gewaltigen Springflut heimgesucht - doch das ist noch nicht alles: Bei der letzten Flut geschahen in den Küstenstädten rätselhafte Dinge. Die sonst so friedlichen Kolonisten gerieten aneinander, es gab Mord und Totschlag, nur wenige Siedler überlebten den Aufruhr, und sämtliche Küstenstädte brannten nieder. Die Aufzeichnungen sind spärlich, aber die Wissenschaftler vermuten, dass die Ursache für die plötzliche Aggressivität in einer Besonderheit der arkadischen Ökologie liegen muss. Die nächste Flut steht kurz bevor, die Nervosität wächst, es kommt zu den ersten Aggressionen – aber die Forscher tappen noch immer im Dunkeln, und die Zeit wird knapp …

It was an alien planet - yet not too alien from Earth. It had its differences; its ice goblins, its curious furry lorrin, its thickening water, and its unearthly tides, but for a young man like Alika-Drove thinking of a vacation by the sea these oddities were the norm. But this vacation was different. Rax was coming into the ascendant and Rax, that cold second sun, was the equivalent of evil, of Satan and of Hell. And as its time drew near everything began to get warped and sinister...until for Alika-Drove it would be either the harsh brutal end of his innocence or the end of his world forever.