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Barrington J. Bayley

    April 9, 1937 – October 14, 2008

    Bayley emerged as a significant figure within science fiction's New Wave movement. His early short stories were regularly featured in the influential New Worlds magazine, later appearing in various paperback anthologies. Known for a downbeat and gloomy approach to his novels, his work has been cited as influential on subsequent generations of writers. Bayley's distinctive voice and his melancholic visions left an indelible mark on the genre.

    Die Grenzritter
    Die Seele des Roboters
    The Garments of Caean
    The Zen Gun
    The Astounding Jason Hyde
    The Grand Wheel
    • The Grand Wheel

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control. But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse. There was, it seemed, a similar gambling combine in the rest of the galaxy, bigger by far than the little group of stars held by Earthlings. And the Wheel wanted a cut in this. So Cheyne Scarne found himself selected to be humanity's own player in a game in which nobody knew the value of the cards and the rules of the game were infinitely variable!

      The Grand Wheel
    • Accidental exposure to a form of natural radiation had caused scientist Jason Hyde's eyes to turn colourless and emit blue rays which gave him the power to see through solid objects and to read the thoughts of human beings. Hyde has dedicated his life to investigating strange phenomena and protecting the world from all manner of abnormal threats!

      The Astounding Jason Hyde
    • The novel about: the absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist...The sub-human who found it and tried to use it...The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet...The widening rim in the space-time continuum...The brief cosmic empire of the pigs...The theory of gravitaitational recession...The super-samurai who served the zen-gunner...The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire...And many more "nova" ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."

      The Zen Gun
    • Die Seele des Roboters

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Ohne Kindheit tritt Jasperodus von einem Tag zum anderen voll in das Leben eines Erwachsenen ein: Jasperodus ist ein Roboter. Er hat keine Lust, bei jenem Ehepaar zu bleiben, das ihn erschaffen hat, und zieht hinaus in die wilde weite Welt. Jasperodus, der sich als Mensch fühlt, ist allen anderen Robotern überlegen, wird von Menschen jedoch als tumbe Maschine, als Ding ohne Gefühle angesehen, mit dem nach Belieben zu verfahren ist. Aber Jasperodus zeigt es ihnen allen. Seine abenteuerliche Karriere führt vom Sklaven im Königreich Gordona zum General und Staatsmann, schließlich zum Führer einer Roboterrevolution. Wie abenteuerlich die Stationen seines Lebens auch sind: Im Grunde forscht er stets nur einem einzigen Mysterium nach - der Frage, ob er, der Roboter Jasperodus, eine Seele hat...

      Die Seele des Roboters
    • Während Prinz Peredan, der rechtmäßige Herrscher des Interstellaren Imperiums, die entscheidende Schlacht gegen den Thronräuber Maxim vorbereitet, dringt eine rätselhafte Lebensform in die Galaxis ein: der Fleck, eine planetenverschlingende interkosmische Entität, die Tod und Vernichtung heraufbeschwört, wo immer sie auftaucht. König Maxim, der allem Anschein nach dem Wahnsinn verfallen ist, sieht in der Existenz des Flecks eine Möglichkeit, sich nicht nur Peredans Rebellen, sondern auch all jener Kräfte zu entledigen, die innerhalb des Reiches gegen ihn opponieren. Er setzt den jungen Herzog Jundrak von Sann ohne dessen Wissen in einem kosmischen Intrigenspiel ohnegleichen ein... Aber keine der streitenden Parteien hat mit dem geheimnisvollen Castor Krakho gerechnet... Barrington J. Bayley, vor allem bekannt durch seine originellen SF-Kurzgeschichten, legt mit diesem Buch eine Space Opera vor, die bewußt im Stil der 30er Jahre geschrieben wurde: eine Chronik jener Epoche, in der Männer noch Männer waren und in der strahlende Helden, finstere Schurken, tödliche Gefahren, knisternde Strahler und überlichtschnelle Raumschiffe das Bild beherrschten.

      Der Vernichtungsfaktor
    • Die Saat des Bösen - Stories - SF-Romane - bk1512; Ullstein Verlag; Barrington J. Bayley; pocket_book; 1984

      Die Saat des Bösen
    • Le vesti di Caean

      • 196 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Su Caean, il raggruppamento di mondi che occupa la sezione della spirale galattica nota come Braccio di Tzist, gli abiti non sono soltanto un ornamento ma una filosofia, un modo di vita, anzi il modo di vita. Ben diversa è la situazione nel vicino Ammasso di Ziode: i pianeti dell'Ammasso non comprendono la filosofia caeanica e la disapprovano. I vestiti caeanici sono proibiti ed è illegale ogni traffico o contatto con il vicino braccio della spirale, strane voci si mormorano sui poteri misteriosi degli addobbi caeanici, poteri che è meglio lasciare nel buio enigmatico in cui sono avvolti. Peder Forbarth, vestiarista di Ziode, ed il suo compare Rialto Mast decidono tuttavia di depredare un mercantile caeanico pieno di vestiti precipitato sul lontano pianeta Kyre. E quando Peder, irrompendo nell'astronave, si trova di fronte addirittura il leggendario abito di Frachonard, il più grande sarto di Caean, non sa resistere e lo indossa, trasferendone su di sé l'intrinseco ed inimmaginabile potenziale, un potenziale che cambierà tutta la sua vita. Perché gli abiti non solo vestono l'uomo, ma ne diventano parte integrante e ne mutano radicalmente il carattere!...

      Le vesti di Caean