Die Erde ist zu klein für ihn — es greift nach den Sternen. Ein Roman aus dem Jahr 1992

Judith Taverner and her brother, Peregrine, are orphans. The death of their eccentric father left them well provided for but consigned to the guardianship of a man they have never met, Julian St. John Audley, Lord Worth. When repeated requests for an introduction to him go unanswered, they set off to London to force a meeting. En route, they spend the night in the village of Grantham, where they make the acquaintance of their Uncle Bernard. Judith and Perry, knowing that their father had disowned his brother many years ago are reluctant to acknowledge the relationship, but Bernard proves to be polite and charming. They also run afoul of an arrogant aristocrat when Perry mishandles a borrowed gig on the road and causes a near-accident. On reaching London, Judith and Perry are amazed and horrified to discover that the insufferable nobleman who made their lives a misery in Grantham is none other than Lord Worth himself

Moira Trevithick and her brother have been bilked of their family fortune by Lionel March, so they masquerade at a country inn as the vulgar Lady Crieff and her stepson, with a plan to take the scoundrel for everything he owes them. But they’re not the only ones interested in March, and they look very suspicious to one well-born gentleman

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young — published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims — whatever they may be — and we don't know — justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. As a witness to the traumas they have endured, can he in all conscience send them back to the horrors of the trenches?

Carl meets Annie Risk and falls for her. Hurt by a recent relationship, she resists becoming involved. A chance find offers distraction. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loops and trumpeters hit impossibly high notes…. where Annie Risk will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares? British Fantasy Award winner Nicholas Royle has written a powerful story set in a nightmarish otherworld of fathers and sons, hopes and dreams, love and death

Premiul Nebula 1979. Premiul Hugo 1980

Premio Eugenio Nadal 1983 Regocijo en el hombre es una documentada visión del mundo anglosajón y vikingo que nos ofrece tres relatos narrados en primera persona, cuyo resumen configura la historia en todos sus detalles. Un obispo, un rey y un príncipe. Tres protagonistas de un argumento común pero a la vez con una perspectiva propia. A lo largo del relato van surgiendo los conocimientos, las concepciones políticas, morales y religiosas de la mano de un escritor pródigo en recursos. El uso del lenguaje, los modos arcaicos de resonancias clásicas, mantiene su calidad a lo largo del libro, no desmayando su interés en ningún momento. Al final, es la solidaridad la que triunfa, la que enriquece a cada uno de nosotros, pues el hombre se regocija en el hombre, como canta el poema vikingo

Cuando los humanos abandonan el planeta Belzagor, siguiendo la política de descolonización consistente en dar independencia a todos los alienígenas con cultura propia, el administrador imperial Gundersen retorna para emprender un viaje etnológico-sentimental-místico-iniciático… donde hallará o no hallará lo que esperaba, pero en todo caso no retornará el mismo que se puso en camino… como tampoco el lector volverá a ser el mismo después del viaje maravilloso que esta novela propone

Hall Bregg é um homem sem mundo, um astronauta que regressa duma missão no espaço e encontra a Terra Irreconhecível. Apesar de só terem passado dez anos biológicos, na Terra já decorreram cento e vinte e sete. As cidades estão construídas com uma tecnologia que ele desconhece, os hábitos sociais estão completamente alterados; é ministrada aos seres huma| nos, na infância, uma droga que neutraliza os seus impulsos agressivos. Como conseguirá um astronautal — que representa o pioneirismo — adaptar-se a uma civilização onde não se corre o menor risco, onde as pessoas se tornam menos cultivadoras do prazer e da juventude, esquecendo-se der que significa sonhar ou ambicionar? Hall Bregg irá lutar por se adaptar e encontrar um lugar para si próprio

With the world on the brink of collapse, the last thing Jon expected was a call from the richest man on Earth. Scientist Jon Matthews is sitting on his couch, locked out of his lab, until he gets a call from Eaton Shaw, the billionaire tech magnate. Shaw is inviting the best and brightest to an underground facility, with a simple mission. Save the world. Jon joins the lab, hoping for a breakthrough on his research. He’s attempting the impossible: regrowing limbs in humans. But he’s not alone in his quest. The lab is filled with cutting edge science, working to solve all of humanity’s problems. Shaw presses harder and harder for results, even in the face of deformity and mutation, and Jon begins questioning Shaw’s motivations. The lab, once a sanctuary, starts to feel like a prison. As Jon’s research spins further and further out of control, the cost is tallied in trauma and blood. Still, Shaw wants more, even as the lab becomes a slaughterhouse. Both Jon and his research are pushed to the brink. What will be the price for regrowth?