His genius for adaptation gives recent immigrant Duncan Wemyss the chance to win some security even in the fantastic environment Down Under, where the sky gapes below you and the ground is overhead. But the Antipodeans are restless and ambitious. They are searching for a leader to rescue them from the horrors which ooze from under the South Pole.... A review from the renowned historical novelist Dee Swift, author of A Divided Inheritance, for the first in the series, The Slant. There is a lot of humour ... but there's also enough danger and tension to make you want to carry on reading... The strength of the writing is in the imagining of a world with fewer, simpler laws and what that might mean for a human trying to survive in it. A review from Ann E. Edwards... This is a brilliant book. The writing is fluent and easy to read and the story carries you along on a huge adventure into a realm which is very different to the one we live in. You share young Duncan's trepidition, as he feels his way through the challenges that face him. This book is for all sci-fi enthusiasts, young and old.
In the grand tradition of the Golden Age of Science Fiction where we wondered at the worlds of HG Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, rising star Robert Gibson brings us this tale of the planet Mercury and a teenager mysteriously transported there. Hugh Dent awakes to find himself in an alien body where he has been living a parallel life as an inhabitant of Mercury - and what's more, it's the legendary, disproved, Twilight Belt version! Memories slowly return of his alternate life on this harsh world, and in the course of his adventures he meets other transplanted 'Earthminds'. Taken captive, Hugh and his friends must find a way of saving not only their own lives but also the future of Earth itself: for, terrifyingly, life on Earth is next on the list to be 'disproved' - in fact, as some readers may have noticed, the doom has begun.... Paying homage to such classics as the Barsoom novels and The First Men in the Moon, Valeddom paints a vivid tale of wonder and adventure and a welcome return to the thrill of discovering new worlds. Classic Science Fiction at its best. Robert Gibson's Kroth series, beginning with The Slant, is also available through all good bookshops.
The Story of the Pivotal Figure behind Sir Walter Scott's Later Masterpieces In the Warmth of the Limelight relies on primary materials from archival and secondary sources to uncover the impact of the John Gibson-Sir Walter Scott relationship during Scott's final decade. Scott was at the peak of his career as an internationally acclaimed poet/author/celebrity when Gibson becomes his lawyer. Scott is then faced with a devastating financial catastrophe followed by personal and family tragedies and enlists Gibson to help him respond. Gibson's 1871 Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott yields glimpses of their partnership that occurred thereafter. They decide Scott will recover entirely from his misfortunes with honor via a trust... and by writing! Limelight strives to complete their story. A prologue tells how Gibson-Scott correspondence, long private for over 100 years after Scott's death, inspired the project. Gibson and Scott's backgrounds are then examined revealing parallels in their experiences that lead to their subsequent association. Scott's role in enlisting Gibson as lawyer for himself and guardians of the fifth Duke of Buccleuch is brought to light for the first time. Gibson's personal and professional functions expand as Scott's heroic response to adversity then unfolds. Gibson encounters added complexities in overseeing Scott's partner in a printing business, James Ballantyne, and when Robert Cadell enters as Scott's final publisher. As their personal story develops, an operative perspective of navigating then-new 19th century legal obstacles regarding intellectual property, trusts and others, as well as the fates of Scott, Gibson and the Trust are presented in significant detail. The concluding portion of Limelight involves the period after Scott's death and the remainder of Gibson's almost fifty-five year career in service to the fifth Duke of Buccleuch. Early Insight is provided into the evolution of a large Scottish law firm that continues today. The depth and breadth of Gibson's involvement in the Buccleuch affairs, including their service to Queen Victoria and her Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's Privy Council, the Duke's vast entrepreneurial business affairs important for Scotland's growth such as the development of access to steam-powered transportation associated with the Granton Harbor project, etc., are highlighted. Limelight provides a view of Scott's final decade not comprehensively represented in published literature - that of lawyer John Gibson, WS, as the person closest to his affairs during that time. The fascinating personal story presents real events unfolding and suspenseful like a work of fiction. What emerges is a complex and moving portrait of Gibson as a nineteenth century middle-class legal professional serving two of the most noted Scots of their day to meet diverse historic challenges. It is intended to have broad readership appeal from those curious about Sir Walter Scott, British, literary or legal history to readers with academic interest and has messages that continue to resonate today. The Author: A descendant of John Gibson, Robert Gibson Alloo is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, St. Louis University School of Medicine and member of The American College of Physicians. Proud of his Scottish heritage and a passionate scholar of British history, Alloo lives in California.
Bored aristocrat Midax Rale is on a quest for purpose in his life. The peril is no longer theoretical: the dread Winter of Simplicity, when all complexity will devolve, is at hand. To save humanity, light and complexity must be concentrated, and Universe 7 prefigured more intensely; but no one, least of all Midax, can solve the mystery of women...
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