15 Books by Barrington J. Bayley
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Overview: Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008) was an English science fiction writer. In the 1960s, Bayley became friends and a frequent collaborator with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who described himself as "the dumb one in the partnership" and joined science fiction's New Wave movement. His downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the likes of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Iain Banks and Alastair Reynolds.
Genre: Science Fiction | Space Opera
The Star Virus
A tale of the man-settled worlds of the Galactic Hub, where an ambiguous device could influence the fate of the universe.
Empire of Two Worlds
In the huge termite-hills of cities that dotted the dead world of Killibol it seemed that nothing could ever change. Each city was enclosed and self-sustaining, in a stasis fixed by the one reality of power: the protein tanks in which organic nutrients could be processed to provide food. But gang-leader Becmath was a man with a vision: to build an empire for himself without breaking this stasis. His lieutenant Klein recognised Becmath's genius and stayed faithful to him even when they were forced to travel Killibol's arid surface in a desperate search for the lost gateway to Earth.
Collision with Chronos (also published as Collision Course)
The ancient ruins that dotted Earth's landscape seemed to be disobeying the laws of time, become less and less decrepit as the years went by. Everyone had his own theory, but it was only when scientists perfected their time machines that the awful truth dawned. The ruins were getting younger every day, and the builders came not from the past but from Earth's own future, from a society occupying the same planet yet moving in time in the opposite direction, their present lying in the Earth's future, their future in Earth's past. The two worlds were hurtling towards each other in time at a terrifying speed.
The Garments of Caean
The garments of Caean are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with undreamed-of powers. But is Peder wearing the suit - or is the suit wearing him?
The Grand Wheel
Cheyne Scarne was a gambler - a lucky one. What he didn't know about randomatics wasn't worth knowing. He had brains to get right to the heart of the Grand Wheel - the syndicate that controlled all illegal activity in the planets under human control. But what Scarne had staked to get that far was chickenfeed compared to what he would risk to get into the real big time - the massive intergalactic combine that dwarfed the empires of mere men.
Star Winds
The ship that sailed to Mars and beyond ... the sails were the product of the Old Technology, lost long ago in the depleted Earth, and they were priceless. For with those fantastic sheets of etheric material, ships could sail the sky and even brave the radiant tides between worlds and stars.... In the future Solar System of the novel, humans travel through space using solar sails and, as with much of Bayley's work, alchemy and other pseudo-sciences play a role alongside more conventional technology.
The Pillars of Eternity
When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after the Pillars of Eternity. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself...
The Forest of Peldain
Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. Then a man came out of that jungle - a human - who told the Arelians that at the center of the island a secret kingdom flourished. There was nothing for it but to organise an expedition.
The Rod of Light
A sequel to The Soul of the Robot. Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude. The ultimate hope of the most powerfully intelligent robots lies in the attainment of human consciousness. And they are willing to steal men's souls if they must, to get this final elusive quality for themselves.
The Sinners of Erspia
The Sinners of Erspia are the inhabitants of a bizarre world, ruled and guided by the hands of Ormazd and Ahriman, twin gods of good and evil. Histrina, a child of Ormazd, is taken by the evil hordes to a camp of terror where she meets Laedo, a man stranded far from his home. Together they start on a hallucinatory journey to understand and escape from the surreal world that holds them prisoner.
The Great Hydration
A firm of interstellar explorer-exploiters discovers a small desert planet which in a previous age has borne oceans, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens in their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what?
The Seed of Evil
A collection of endlessly inventive stories; dark fables resounding with sombre undertones - love used as a weapon, God assassinated by the ingenuity of man, the secret of death revealed, the inexplicable explained!
The Soul of the Robot, The Knights of the Limits, The Fall of Chronopolis
The Soul of the Robot: Jasperodus, a robot, sets out to prove he is the equal of any human being. His furturistic adventures as warrior, tyrant, renegade and statesman eventually lead him back home to the two human beings who created him. Question: Does he have a soul?
The Fall of Chronopolis: The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's 1,000-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he has been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships.
The Knights of the Limits: Nine brilliant stories of infinite space and alien consciousness, suffused with a sense of wonder...
Note: .AZW3s are retail editions after being run through calibre; .ePUBs are conversions of those, proofread and corrected, as the state of the retail editions was found unsatisfactory (to put it mildly), although a few undecipherable words remain.
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Requirements: ePub/AZW3/MOBI reader | 5.62 MB
Overview: Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008) was an English science fiction writer. In the 1960s, Bayley became friends and a frequent collaborator with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who described himself as "the dumb one in the partnership" and joined science fiction's New Wave movement. His downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the likes of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Iain Banks and Alastair Reynolds.
Genre: Science Fiction | Space Opera
The Star Virus
A tale of the man-settled worlds of the Galactic Hub, where an ambiguous device could influence the fate of the universe.
Empire of Two Worlds
In the huge termite-hills of cities that dotted the dead world of Killibol it seemed that nothing could ever change. Each city was enclosed and self-sustaining, in a stasis fixed by the one reality of power: the protein tanks in which organic nutrients could be processed to provide food. But gang-leader Becmath was a man with a vision: to build an empire for himself without breaking this stasis. His lieutenant Klein recognised Becmath's genius and stayed faithful to him even when they were forced to travel Killibol's arid surface in a desperate search for the lost gateway to Earth.
Collision with Chronos (also published as Collision Course)
The ancient ruins that dotted Earth's landscape seemed to be disobeying the laws of time, become less and less decrepit as the years went by. Everyone had his own theory, but it was only when scientists perfected their time machines that the awful truth dawned. The ruins were getting younger every day, and the builders came not from the past but from Earth's own future, from a society occupying the same planet yet moving in time in the opposite direction, their present lying in the Earth's future, their future in Earth's past. The two worlds were hurtling towards each other in time at a terrifying speed.
The Garments of Caean
The garments of Caean are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with undreamed-of powers. But is Peder wearing the suit - or is the suit wearing him?
The Grand Wheel
Cheyne Scarne was a gambler - a lucky one. What he didn't know about randomatics wasn't worth knowing. He had brains to get right to the heart of the Grand Wheel - the syndicate that controlled all illegal activity in the planets under human control. But what Scarne had staked to get that far was chickenfeed compared to what he would risk to get into the real big time - the massive intergalactic combine that dwarfed the empires of mere men.
Star Winds
The ship that sailed to Mars and beyond ... the sails were the product of the Old Technology, lost long ago in the depleted Earth, and they were priceless. For with those fantastic sheets of etheric material, ships could sail the sky and even brave the radiant tides between worlds and stars.... In the future Solar System of the novel, humans travel through space using solar sails and, as with much of Bayley's work, alchemy and other pseudo-sciences play a role alongside more conventional technology.
The Pillars of Eternity
When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after the Pillars of Eternity. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself...
The Forest of Peldain
Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. Then a man came out of that jungle - a human - who told the Arelians that at the center of the island a secret kingdom flourished. There was nothing for it but to organise an expedition.
The Rod of Light
A sequel to The Soul of the Robot. Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude. The ultimate hope of the most powerfully intelligent robots lies in the attainment of human consciousness. And they are willing to steal men's souls if they must, to get this final elusive quality for themselves.
The Sinners of Erspia
The Sinners of Erspia are the inhabitants of a bizarre world, ruled and guided by the hands of Ormazd and Ahriman, twin gods of good and evil. Histrina, a child of Ormazd, is taken by the evil hordes to a camp of terror where she meets Laedo, a man stranded far from his home. Together they start on a hallucinatory journey to understand and escape from the surreal world that holds them prisoner.
The Great Hydration
A firm of interstellar explorer-exploiters discovers a small desert planet which in a previous age has borne oceans, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens in their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what?
The Seed of Evil
A collection of endlessly inventive stories; dark fables resounding with sombre undertones - love used as a weapon, God assassinated by the ingenuity of man, the secret of death revealed, the inexplicable explained!
The Soul of the Robot, The Knights of the Limits, The Fall of Chronopolis
The Soul of the Robot: Jasperodus, a robot, sets out to prove he is the equal of any human being. His furturistic adventures as warrior, tyrant, renegade and statesman eventually lead him back home to the two human beings who created him. Question: Does he have a soul?
The Fall of Chronopolis: The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's 1,000-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he has been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships.
The Knights of the Limits: Nine brilliant stories of infinite space and alien consciousness, suffused with a sense of wonder...
Note: .AZW3s are retail editions after being run through calibre; .ePUBs are conversions of those, proofread and corrected, as the state of the retail editions was found unsatisfactory (to put it mildly), although a few undecipherable words remain.
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