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Slimer
London
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W. H. Allen
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1983
Z809367
1983
single work
novel
science fiction
horror
Six shipwrecked heroin smugglers find themselves trapped on an oil rig with a genetically modified, shape-shifting great white shark.
London : W. H. Allen , 1983 -
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Carnosaur
London
:
W. H. Allen
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1984
Z809337
1984
single work
novel
science fiction
A scientist sets out to resurrect the dinosaurs, putting the local countryside in peril.
London : W. H. Allen , 1984 - y Spectre of Maralinga London : W. H. Allen , 1985 Z1042126 1985 single work novel crime science fiction London : W. H. Allen , 1985
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The Fungus
London
:
W. H. Allen
,
1985
Z809364
1985
single work
novel
science fiction
horror
'What would happen if, through a genetic experiment gone awry, fungi - mushrooms, toadstools, molds and yeasts - were to go out of control and grow with unprecedented vigor and speed and tenacity, and in places formerly inimicable to them? Knight has pulled out the stops to produce an imaginative and fast-paced sci-fi horror tale set in the British Isles. The protagonist is Barry Wilson, a semi-successful author of spy novels and a former mycologist. Barry's wife Jane, from whom he is separated, is the scientist whose experiment has lead to the disaster, and the British government has called upon Barry to help find Jane and her lab notes. Crossing London in an armored tank, Barry and two other volunteers observe all sorts of grotesqueries: people and animals covered with multicolored fungi, some still alive, some now quite insane; farms and buildings and forests draped in spongy shrouds; mushrooms tall as skyscrapers. Barry survives a series of hair-raising adventures and eventually locates his wife, who has gone mad and has become the high priestness of a cult of fungi-loving female separatists. But he gets the research notes. A first-rate and vivid thriller.'
Source: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk (Sighted: 02/06/2010)
London : W. H. Allen , 1985