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Binary Z [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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F. S. Hartley was making the best of a bad job. The rebuilding programme at his school was drawing on all his skills in crisis management. Today, the digger had just cut the main power line--again, the School Inspector was threatening the whole future with talk of 'comprehensive education' and 'mergers' with rival schools, the boiler room was filling up with water, and then, as ever, there was the distraction of Mrs Gleave. And, it was only 10:30 in the morning. But today was not going to be jus... more info>> (Published: 1969)
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Forgotten Rocket [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Forgotten Rocket. Caster was a typical city of the age. Its people were inoculated every year with U4--a drug which prevented them from asking the questions which ought to be asked. Clint Pearson had worked out a system for missing the inoculation. Only he knew that things were badly wrong. Somehow they had to make a break in the circle and think again about what a community should be like. He found allies in an outlawed, underground group. Wayne Presbon--a massive youth with the Viking spirit a... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Interstellar Two-Five [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #2] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Dag Fletcher's first trip back with European Space was not going well. His six year military stint with I.G.O. had taught him that there were no simple missions. This just confirmed it. It was supposed to have been a straight-forward freight run--to get him back into the swing of things. And he wasn't even in the command slot for this one. So here they were, stranded on Pelorus, without enough power to get them off. It soon became clear that getting off the planet was the least of their problems... more info>> (Published: 1966)
Words: 56046 - Reading Time: 160-224 min.
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Last Shuttle to Planet Earth [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Seen from far enough off, a shanty town of flattened kerosene tins and mud daub can appear like some glittering Shangri-la. An observer at the Met Station of Earth's moon, if there was any hardy soul still batting on that ash heap, would see the sprawling, wheel satellite as the last triumph of Technical Man. Only the close observer would see the derelict sections, the areas where robot fault finders had finally jacked it in and let meteorite penetration have its way. Wirral City--ten thousand p... more info>> (Published: 1980)
Words: 51687 - Reading Time: 147-206 min.
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Moons of Triopus [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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In opposing the Triopus project, Grant Kirby was one by himself. Powerful commercial and political lobbies saw him as a threat and wanted him silenced. Was there in fact, a menace in the green planet or was he rationalizing his own growing disillusionment with Earth and its social pattern? Kirby himself only found the answer when the Triopusians entered the equation in a form nobody could expect. (Published: 1968)
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Never the Same Door [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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A man does not step into the same river twice. He never goes through the same door. To Kurt Yardley, this is amply borne out by the train of circumstance which follows the forced landing of his freighter Charib on the bleakly inhospitable plains of an unlisted planet. Life has evolved without a familiar organic base and is ready to defend itself against the encroachment of another species. Its very structure could bring unimaginable wealth to metal-hungry cultures and there are those on Charib w... more info>> (Published: 1967)
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One is One [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #5] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was beginning to feel very angry with the whole pointless business. What had begun as a commercial and training flight aboard the old I.G.O. corvette Interstellar X had gathered such complications to itself that the mission was drifting towards a first class muddle. The planet looked bad enough. They were awkwardly placed in their makeshift silo. Land survey was not going to be a picnic. But he had to find a site and leave it equipped as the local consulate. Compli... more info>> (Published: 1968)
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Operation Umanaq [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Operation Umanaq. After near bisection at the delicate hand of his ex-girlfriend and an all-stations call from the head of his own security unit labelling him an outlaw, Mark Chevron was a two-time loser. But despite everyone and everything being against him, he did have a tenuous line on the biggest operation ever mounted on the face of Earth. Crossing two continents and reaching deep into the permafrost of Polar Scientific Complex, he is thrown into the middle of a war waged with one of the st... more info>> (Published: 1973)
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The Bromius Phenomenon [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #4] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was involved as soon as Interstellar Two Nine disappeared in the gravisphere of Bromius. There must have been more to the loss of the starship than navigational error or mechanical failure. An ethnological mission couldn't have got into that much trouble. This was an ideal opportunity to get back in the thick of the action, and put Hulda out of his mind once and for all. He knew the Bromusians as a cheerful and sociable race and it seemed unlikely and quite incredi... more info>> (Published: 1973)
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The Fingalnan Conspiracy [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Returning from an I.G.O mission with his co-pilot critically injured, Sam York had got this far in his battered Interceptor. The last thing he needed was a close call on planetfall with a merchant ship--especially one captained by a former service rival, George Dumalin. With a growing series of seemingly natural disasters on Earth planet, York sets out to find the answer to a series of baffling questions. What interest did the Outer Galactic Alliance have in asteroid F3Q7? And why where they wil... more info>> (Published: 1973)
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The Fletcher Chronicles [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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In The Fletcher Chronicles we follow Dag Fletcher's extraordinary career in a collection of short stories. As Controller and trouble-shooter for European Space. Through his six year military stint with the Inter Galactic Organisation. His rise to Chairman in the Space Corporation. And, finally, elevated to General (retired). The Fletcher Chronicles also spans the career of John Rankine. Two's company was Rankine's first story--written in 1964. The Heart of the Flame his most recent--written in 2... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Plantos Affair [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #3] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Captain Dag Fletcher was about to try out his diplomatic skills. After the recent I.G.O.-O.G.A. confrontation, European Space had been given back their company office on Fingalna and he had the tricky task of smoothing the way for a full return. Then there was the minor task of looking after a high level I.G.O. delegation retuning to re-open their own consulate. With the office still looking more like a forgotten store room, Fletcher was made an offer he couldn't refuse and quickly found himself... more info>> (Published: 1971)
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The Ring of Garamas [Dag Fletcher Galactic Series #1] [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Dag Fletcher, seconded from European Space Corporation to do his regulation six year military stint for the Inter Galactic Organization, was regarded as one of the best corvette commanders around. First choice for the difficult and bizarre missions, he had all the skills to get the job done. It was fortunate that very few on Garamas would know that Terrapin was a burned-out wreck on a cinder heap and that just now, waiting for a new posting, her one-time commander was in a limbo with no official... more info>> (Published: 1971)
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The Star of Hesiock [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Sam Shepherd, minding his own business, with his car locked on the freeway safety strip, was a surprised man when he saw Jean Quale draped like a wet sack over a five barred gate. Stopping to check out what she was up to, put his feet on a path littered with uncertainty. He was hooked to a sequence that had its own inbuilt logic even when it projected him in galactic travel to the neighbourhood of Alpha Centauri. You will never again be sure that your companion on the walkway is not from the dyi... more info>> (Published: 1980)
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The Thorburn Enterprise [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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Commander Kurt Foreman of the I.G.O. frigate Phalarope felt he had been lumbered with a nursemaid mission to keep an eye on a team of sociologists who were all set for an investigative visit to a remote planet in O.G.A. space. The sponsor of the trip was a powerful entrepreneur with too much influence for comfort and it soon was anybody's guess as to who was protecting whom. This became clear right from the start, when, arriving on Fingalna to meet the team, Forman's first challenge was to navig... more info>> (Published: 1977)
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The Vort Programme [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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The Vort Programme. Robert Cain had no idea why he had been sent to enrol at Picton Polytech, but when a blue and yellow auto car dropped eight feet and nearly crushed him out of existence, he knew there was more to it than just a crash course in The Science of Mental Life for which he was registered. Who was trying to kill him and why? Why should ultra-sensitive receivers be hidden in the walls of his room? Who was programming the androids like the one which tried to throw him off his upper-flo... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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The Weisman Experiment [MultiFormat]
by John Rankine
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To Prosper Kanes, the resurrection of interest in the Weisman Experiment, long suppressed officially by the Federal Government, was merely a whim of the Chairman--a routine chore of investigation in the memory banks of his computer. As a Professional Grade 4 citizen he was not expected to question but to carry out his duties and to maintain that certain position which officialdom had awarded him in its planned scheme of things. It was a scheme which allowed no freedom to individuals, unless they... more info>> (Published: 1969)
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Tuo Yaw [The Collection] [MultiFormat]
by Douglas R. Mason, John Rankine
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Tuo Yaw is a collection of possibilities played out in alternative landscapes. Time shifts, paranormal happenings, bio-mechs, mind control, battles with state and authority. This collection encompasses the range of writing for which Douglas R. Mason has become renowned. "In these future worlds, there has to be room for the hope of love and for the human spirit to stick its head over the parapet. There are Rubicons to cross. Each one prepares his little boat to make the journey. Love is the great... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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