2 books by Bob Shaw
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Overview: Bob Shaw was born in Northern Ireland. After working in structural engineering, industrial public relations, and journalism he became a full time science fiction writer in 1975.
Shaw was noted for his originality and wit. He was two-time recipient (in 1979 and 1980) of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His short story Light of Other Days was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel The Ragged Astronauts in 1987.
Genre: Science Fiction
Ground Zero Man
Hutchman was an ordinary man, doing his job, devising rocketry guidance systems. Life held its satisfactions and its frustrations. He had no spectacular ambitions. Then one day, Hutchman discovered that he could destroy the world–or save it, and destroy himself. There was no other way. But the masters of the earth didn’t want it saved Hutchman’s way. They wanted Hutchman destroyed along with his doomsday device. And so the chase was on. Hutchman had succeeded in one thing, at least–he had brought about unity among the world’s powers. They all wanted him dead!
The Shadow Of Heaven
In the 21st century, an unknown enemy has dusted the world’s croplands with lethal herbicides. With the oceans the only source of food, populations have concentrated along the coasts; one overcrowded city stretches from Maine to Florida. Supplementing the meager marine bill of fare are vegetables produced by robots on platforms, or Iles, suspended five kilometers on high by antigravity machines. When journalist Vic Stirling’s half-brother Johnny Considine goes missing, Stirling traces him to the Ile known as Heaven. Here, Stirling discovers a ragged society of misfits, ruled by Johnny and scavenging among the robots and crops–some clever gizmos keep the air in and the temperature up, you see. Power struggles ensue–above (between Stirling and Johnny) and below (between the government and the powerful Food Technology Authority). Threatened by FTA troops, Johnny prepares grandiose schemes to fly Heaven off to the moon. Eventually, Stirling will help the government vanquish both Johnny and the FTA, and begin planning for a fleet of Iles to start the terraforming of Venus.
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