Bob Shaw
Born
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, The United Kingdom
December 31, 1931
Died
February 12, 1996
Genre
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Orbitsville
27 editions
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published
1975
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The Ragged Astronauts (Land and Overland, #1)
17 editions
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1986
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Night Walk
20 editions
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1967
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Other Days, Other Eyes
15 editions
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1972
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Who Goes Here? (Warren Peace, #1)
14 editions
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published
1977
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The Wooden Spaceships (Land and Overland Series, #2)
12 editions
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published
1987
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A Wreath of Stars
19 editions
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published
1976
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The Palace of Eternity
by
13 editions
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published
1969
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Orbitsville Departure
by
12 editions
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published
1983
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Ship of Strangers
10 editions
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published
1978
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“No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the the stars, not what separated them. They glittered in his vision, filling his eyes, and he had no choice but to assign them a position of importance in the cosmic scheme. The space traveler saw things differently. He was made aware that the universe consisted of emptiness, that the suns and nebulae were almost an irrelevancy, that the stars were nothing more than a whiff of gas diffusing into infinity. And sooner or later that knowledge began to hurt.”
― Ship of Strangers
― Ship of Strangers
“We of the Twentieth Century have abandoned the practice of holding something in reserve when we love our children, assuming – as our ancestors would never have dared to do – that they will reach adulthood as a matter of course.”
― Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
― Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
“Fortune accepted that he could not become a helpless, blameless baby again and yet he was strangely satisfied at the prospect of being carried upwards into the receptive convexities of the clouds.”
― Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
― Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
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