Robin Gilbert: 9 books

The Belar is set in Robin Gilbert’s Gateway Worlds where magic keys disguised as mundane objects transport Watchers vast distances, even to new worlds, as easily as stepping through a door. Where strange races and wonderful creatures dwell. Where evil lurks at every turn, where the lands are often unimaginably dangerous and where power is all... and every Watcher wants it.

Mary is alone when her car breaks down on some god forsaken back road in the middle of nowhere. Then she hears singing and follows it... to discover something quite unexpected.

A spinster devotes herself to a shamefully selfish form of charity work, until the day a stranger enters her world...

The Vast Cast... The Injured Parties... The Pea-Soopes; His Lordship, an upright and honest, spaniel loving man, his wife, Lady Melinda, short in stature, thin of limb and brandishing a mass of red hair that suggests an inevitable toppling. Their daughter Emily Jane who is, like, so...

A schoolboy is kidnapped. His powerful, wealthy father enlists the aid of a strange old man prepared to do whatever is necessary to get him back, even exploiting the unusual gifts of a sweet, young girl...

A badly beaten prostitute dreams of a fantasy world in which she is a princess... or is Elysia the world in which she truly belongs and her current existence a nightmare?

Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis.

Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...

Featuring leading scientists acting as consultants on the stories, and writing scientific afterwords, bringing the theory featured in the stories to life, including Prof. Sarah Bridle (Jodrell Bank), Prof. Jonathan Wolff and Prof. Frank Jackson (the inventor of the 'Mary's Room' thought experiment). Science...