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Penguin Science Fiction
The Incandescent Ones
Sir Fred Hoyle, f.r.s., well known as an astronomer, writer, broadcaster, and television personality, was born at Bingley, Yorkshire, in 1915, and educated at Bingley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, he was a university lecturer in mathematics from 1945 to 1958, when he was appointed to the post of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy (1958–73). He was later made Director of the Cambridge Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (1966-73), which he founded. In 1972 he was knighted, and in 1974 was awarded a Royal Medal by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his distinguished contributions to Theoretical Physics and Cosmology.
Sir Fred Hoyle's publications include The Nature of the Universe (1950; in Pelican), A Decade of Decision (1953), Frontiers of Astronomy (1956), Of Men and Galaxies (1964), Ten Faces of the Universe (1977), Stonehenge (1977) and (with N. C. Wickramasinghe) Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe (1978). His other novels include The Black Cloud (1957), Ossian's Ride (1959) and October the First is Too Late (1966), Fifth Planet (1963), Rockets in Ursa Major (1969), Seven Steps to the Sun (1970), The Molecule Men (1971), The Inferno (1972) and The Westminster Disaster (1978) were written with Geoffrey Hoyle. Fred Hoyle has also published a play, Rockets in Ursa Major (1962), and is the joint author of A for Andromeda (1962), a television serial.
Born in 1942, Geoffrey Hoyle is Fred Hoyle's son. He was educated at Bryanston, and later left Cambridge University to work in modern communications and motion pictures. He is now a full-time writer, working sometimes in collaboration with his father but often independently.
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First published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1977
Published in Penguin Books 1979
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Penguins in Space
XANTHE AND THE ROBOTS
Sheila MacLeod
‘Xanthe is a member (female) of a research team which is investigating the possibilities of humanoid robots, in a world of chaos and starvation ... Two types of robot have been produced: the Pragmapractors, who do the conventional manual work; and the Philophrenics, who have been programmed to more human levels, to feel affection, to talk, and even construct themselves. The question is: should they be allowed to go further? This is a remarkable story, blending the best of both science fiction and the mainstream novel of character’ — Manchester Evening News
‘Brilliantly realized’ — Time Out
IN SOLITARY
Garry Kilworth
‘Earth has been under alien domination by strange winged creatures for centuries. They keep the population severely limited and isolated; humans may only meet at occasional matings. The account of the resistance to the aliens, set largely in a beautifully evoked Oceania, is taut, superbly written and given a very surprising final twist’ — Spectator
‘A science fiction story of rare imagination and chilling plausibility... Truly an auspicious debut by a fine new writer’ — Sunday Press, Dublin
THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
Robert Sheckley
‘Will Barrent is sent to a convict planet for a murder he doesn't remember committing, and finds that unguarded life there is a blackly comic mirror image of Earth: malice through a looking-glass... A thought-joltingly good read’ — Tom Hutchinson in The Times
‘Superbly demonstrates the full misanthropic joys of the genre ... a tour deforce of delightful perversity’ — Martin Amis in the Observer
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Penguins in Space
ROADSIDE PICNIC
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Zone is a part of Canada that has been the scene of a mysterious alien visit. The debris left behind — the equivalent, it is theorized, of the litter humans might scatter at a picnic — is as incomprehensible as they are. Much of it is highly dangerous, but there are some items, such as self-reproducing everlasting batteries, which could revolutionize man's technology. For those who brave the dangers, avoiding official scientific expeditions, the rewards are great. They are the ‘stalkers’...
‘The story is carried off with controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute; one can hardly think of a dozen American SF novels written with such command and concision. Please, somebody, more’ — Kirkus
PULSAR 2
An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Futures Edited by George Hay
Sparkling ingredients include new stories by Alan Dean Foster, E. C. Tubb, Robin Douglas, Garry Kilworth, Robert Carter and Rob Holdstock —
Chris Evans interviews van Vogt, and in an imaginative freewheeling piece Richard Weholt discusses SF in relation to nuclear technology
And more...
MORE WOMEN OF WONDER
Science fiction novelettes by women about women, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Pamela Sargent
One of the great appeals of science fiction has always been that it both reflects the present and forecasts the future. For many years, its women characters appeared only in the traditional roles of damsels in distress, wives and mothers, or occasionally tempters. Today women writers are producing some of the best science fiction — with female protagonists.
In this new collection of stories, C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Joanna Russ, Josephine Saxton, Kate Wilhelm, Joan D. Vinge and Ursula K. Le Guin explore feminist themes beyond the frontiers of fact.
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