C. A. G. van den Broek Books

Wilbur Larch, a physician, philosopher, obstetrician, and abortionist at St. Cloud's orphanage struggles through his relationship with his apprentice and surrogate son, Homer Wells.

‘Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.’Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía’s father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendía household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds…This new edition of Gabriel García Márquez's most celebrated novel is published to coincide with celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of this Nobel Prize winning author in 2007.

Bevat alle verhalen uit drie afzonderlijke bundels:Op weg naar de hemel (Orig. Kiss kiss)M'n liefje, m'n duifje (Orig. Someone like you)Gelijk oversteken (Orig. Switch bitch)

Bevat: ASIMOV, Isaac - HET WAPEN TE VRESELIJK OM TE GEBRUIKEN (Amazing Stories, 1939, vert.door: Jean-A. Schalekamp) STURGEON, Theodore - ABREACTIE (Weird Tales, 1939, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) BRADBURY, Ray - DE FLUIT (Thrilling Wonder Stories, feb. 1943, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) LEINSTER, Murray - HET EEUWIGDURENDE NU (Thrilling Wonder Stories, herfst 1944, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) HEINLEIN, Robert A. - COLUMBUS WAS GEK (Startling Stories, mei 1947, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) CLARKE, Arthur C. - AANGESPOELD (Fantasy, 1947 onder het pseudoniem Charles Willis, vert.door: C.A.G. van den Broek) SHECKLEY, Robert - DE AANVAL (Space Science Fiction, 1953, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) ALDISS, Brian W. - EVENAAR (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1958, als feuilleton, vert.door: Pon Ruiter)

Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, the doctor returns to India; in Bombay, most of his patients are crippled children. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, twenty years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer.

Dank zij een bijzondere overeenkomst met de copyright-holders van twee voortreffelijke Amerkaanse science-fiction-magazines: 'Amazing' en 'Fantastic' kon uit verscheidene jaargangen het beste van het beste geput worden voor deze Zwarte-Beertjes-selectie.

Van de na-oorlogse science-fictionschrijvers is Philip Dick wellicht degene die in onze streken de grootste populariteit geniet ... en geen wonder. Zijn altijd verrassende romans en verhalen zijn met inspiratie geschreven en bevatten veelal toespelingen op de huidige samenleving, die een navrant licht werpen op de hedendaagse wereld. Onveranderlijk verlevendigd door een disis relativerende humor, blijven ze verfrissende lectuur vormen voor iedereen die zich laat boeien door de toekomst, haar mogelijkheden en ... gevaren. Deze omnibus bevat de verhalen: - Kroost (Progeny) - Het minderheidsrapport (The minority report) - De saaie aarde (Upon the dull earth) - De doe-het-zelver (The builder) - Een swibbel voor dag en nacht (Service call) - Kapers in de kosmos (The cosmic poachers) - Ontbijt in de schemering (Breakfast at twilight) - Passanten (Planet for the transients) - Slachtoffer (Expendable) - De forens (The commuter) - De tijd van Hippe Hetty (The days of Perkey Pat) - Koekjes (The cookie lady) - Kleinsteeds (Small town) - Type twee (Second variety)

Garp is the son of a nurse and a war veteran. He was conceived in his father's hospital bed shortly before his death. His name, Garp, is his father's only legacy and he is brought up by his slightly eccentric mother and becomes a famous novelist.

Bundel fantasyverhalen, afgewisseld met korte essays over het genre fantasy.

Het geheim van Stonehenge - The Secret of Stonehenge Ambtenaar - A Civil Service Servant De vluchtnabootser - Simulated Trainer Reddinsoperatie - Rescue Operation De lijkenvreters - The Ghoul Squad Ik doe altijd wat Teddy zegt - I always do what Teddy says Een strafbaar feit - A Criminal Act Wie niet weg is, is gezien - I see you Amos Cabot is wel wijzer! - Not Me, Not Amos Cabot Oorlog met de robots - War with the Robots

Contains: DE DENKER (The Ponderer, 1962) DUIVELTJELIEF (Dear Devil, 1950) LEST BEST (Early Bird, 1957) SPIRO (Spiro (Ventures of the Martian Mimics)

Bevat:1.-Bruid 91 (Bride Ninety-One,1969)2.-De Duistere Begeleider (Dark Companion,1969)3.-Eenzaamheid (Solitary,1969)4.-Eerste Gebod (Prime Commandment,1969)5.-Het Einde van de Reis (Journey's End,1969)6.-Eva en de 23 Adams (Eva and the 23 Adams,1969)7.-Op Weg naar het Einde (Road to Nightfall,1958)

Money was worthless; it had no value! It couldn't buy housing, clothing, or food. Someone with enormous quantities of cash was buying houses and tearing them down, buying stores and closing them. Perhaps a few people could have stopped the transactions before it was too late. They could have said that Earth was being taken over by alien beings in the shapes of bowling balls, talking dogs, and dolls that walked like men. In fact, they did say it. The trouble was, no one believed them!

It is the twenty-first century. On Mars a dedicated group of pioneers - among them some of Earth's finest brains - struggle to change the face of the planet . . . Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red Planet. It's a dream come true - until he discovers the difficulties and perils of survival on another world . . . and the very real terror it holds.

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. "Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice." --Time "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book." --Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." --Cosmopolitan

The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first.... "Three or four times as funny as most novels." THE NEW YORKER From the Paperback edition.

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences

Autobiografische roman van de Westindische schrijver waarin Engeland centraal staat.