This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted nuclear doom. The other is the distant world of Mollan, whose inhabitants have achieved great longevity and the power to transport themselves instantly from star to star.Bob Shaw’s novel unfolds a tale which spans thousands of years and the reaches of interstellar space. On Earth’s side, there is Denny Hargate, whose indomitable courage drives him to alter the course of history. On their side is the Gretana ty Iltha, working on Earth as a secret observer, who dreams of returning to the delights of her world’s high society, but who gets caught up in a cosmic train of events leading to an explosive climax.

First published in 1971 as Ground Zero Man, this novel was revies by the author and published in 1985 as The Peace Machine.It is 1988, and an obscure scientist, Lucas Hutchman, has made a momentous discovery. He can build a neutron resonator: a device which, once triggered, will detonate every nuclear warhead in the planet. In a future on the brink of nuclear suicide (Damascus has just been wiped out by a terrorist nuclear bomb), the temptation is irresistible to use his invention as a gun held against the heads of the world’s leaders. Lucas constructs the machine, and then sends plans to prominent scientists and politicians everywhere, giving a deadline on which he will activate it. They will be forced to dismantle their weapons, and the world will breathe again.Very quickly, Lucas discovers that he has pitched himself into a world with which he is ill-equipped to cope: the world of secret agents, espionage, kidnapping and murder. His problem is to stay under cover and survive long enough to implement his plan.

THE TWO-TIMERS is an unpredictable and fascinating novel of a man literally fighting himself… while the universe fell apart…THE TWO-TIMERS is his third novel, but the first to achieve maior publication.

Nel 22esimo secolo, la scienza ha vinto il problema dell’invecchiamento. Basta un’iniezione, e si diventa quasi immortali. Ma un simile miracolo ha un prezzo piuttosto alto per la popolazione maschile: fa diventare impotenti. E prima di entrare nella categoria dei “disattivati”, dei “freddi”, gli uomini ci pensano settanta volte sette, in genere preferiscono aspettare fino all’ultimissimo momento. Finché a Will Carewe, impiegato presso il grande complesso chimico che produce la droga dell’immortalità, si offre un’occasione unica: quella di fare da cavia per un nuovo, rivoluzionario prodotto che non ha nesun effetto collaterale, nessuna conseguenza sul piano sessuale. Chi direbbe di no? Solo che la vita di una cavia si rivela presto molto pericolosa, le conseguenze dell’esperimento possono essere ben più inaspettate e misteriose e tutto può finire con un “raffreddamento” definitivo, sottoterra…

En el verano de 1993, millones de gentes observan en el cielo con incredulidad, ayudados por los recientemente inventados lentes Amplite, mientras el planeta de Thornton se acerca peligrosamente a la Tierra. Diseñados para ver en la oscuridad, los lentes Amplite, iluminan un misterioso mundo de materia antineutrínica que coexiste con la Tierra en otra dimensión

Immaginate di aver costruito un apparecchio (sul tipo di una radio-trasmittente) capace di emettere impulsi capaci a loro volta di innescare la ben nota reazione a catena in tutte le ogive nucleari attualmente esistenti in tutte le basi atomiche del mondo. Per costruire un apparecchio del genere dovreste indubbiamente aver risolto dei problemi scientifici d’una certa difficoltà... Ma se ci pensate un momento vi renderete conto che quelle difficoltà erano niente di fronte al problema che vi aspetta adesso (e che aspetta il protagonista di questo romanzo): quando e in che modo vi proponete di utilizzarlo, il vostro benefico apparecchio?

The invention of a cheap and easy-to-use antigravity harness revolutionises society. Humanity takes to the skies in its millions, with huge resultant problems for governments and police. Virtually all aircraft are grounded, because of the risk of collision with a stray flyer. Airborne delinquents and criminals are practically impossible to control and can be lethal. Robert Hasson is a good policeman. But a near-fatal airborne confrontation with a psychopath has left him shattered, both physically and mentally. Sent to Canada to recuperate (and to escape the attentions of a local businessman whose son he has put away), Hasson is a broken man, unable to face human company, haunted by nightmares and certain that he will never again put on an anti-gravity harness. But his Canadian host, police chief Al Werry, has a major problem on his hands in the shape of a towering unfinished hotel, the Chinook, whose upper levels are inaccessible from the ground, and are used as an illegal meeting place by local gangs of flyers. Worse, the hotel's owner, Buck Morlacher, intends to take the law into his own hands to deal with them. The violence that has been simmering in the town threatens to erupt and Werry seems powerless to stop it. Unwillingly, Hasson finds himself drawn into the conflict and forced to face his own problems. “Vertigo” is vintage Bob Shaw, fast-moving, intelligent and immensely readable.“Terminal Velocity” (1991) contains the same story as “Vertigo” but also includes, as a prologue, an 11-page short story by Bob Shaw that was first published as “Dark Icarus” in Science Fiction Monthly vol. 1, No. 4 (1974), then retitled as “A Little Night Flying” for “If - Worlds of ScienceFiction” (August 1974), and also included in “Cosmic Kaleidoscope” (1976).