Take Back Plenty (1990), is a novel by British writer Colin Greenland, which won both major British science fiction awards, the 1990 British SF Association...

rendered crazed and xenophobic by the millennia, in orbit, the Gilgamesh takes a centuries-long detour to a neighboring system that proves uninhabitable...

Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic...

the Plenty series that starts with Take Back Plenty and continues with Seasons of Plenty (1995), The Plenty Principle (1997) and Mother of Plenty (1998)...

trilogy, and refers back to her growing up with biologists and her own scientific curiosity. Offred is the protagonist and narrator who takes the readers through...

Breach. When a "breach" takes place (used here in the sense of "breaching" the barrier between the two cities), Breach comes to take care of it. Members of...

Torturers' Guild, barely survives a swim in the River Gyoll. On his way back to the Citadel, Severian and several other apprentices sneak into a necropolis...

plain while he waits for rescue. He finds a single alien flower, which he takes. A rescue crew arrives on the raft, and Pak jumps from the cliff into the...

civilisations it has encountered in this universe are not yet ready. It also takes the name given to it by the Culture – The Excession – as its own – in an...

Ridgeway recaptures her while the mob executes Martin and Ethel. Ridgeway takes Cora back toward Georgia, detouring through Tennessee to return another enslaved...

and novellas in the cycle all take place around and within Ryhope Wood, with the exception of Merlin's Wood, which takes place in the similarly magical...

Ephebe to consult with the philosophers there as to how to get back. Meanwhile, pandemonium takes hold in Djelibeybi, as the kingdom's multifarious gods (many...

fictional African state of Beninia making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, to speed up development from Third...

collection of short stories that takes place over the timespan of the original trilogy of novels, as well as some stories that take place in an alternate version...

their chromosomes into another's body, and gradually become that person or take over that person. In the novel, Ronald Ross did not discover the mysteries...

stories. At the time of the first book in Greenland's future history (Take Back Plenty), many of the sentient species in the Milky Way (including humans)...

is chased through the streets by shape-shifting creatures attempting to take over the city; he defeats them but is wounded and destroys the Williamsburg...

understand the time travelling mechanism of the time machine if the Morlock takes him back to it. When he thinks he is unobserved, the Time Traveler reactivates...

polluted conditions ruled by gangs and warlords. The story of He, She and It takes place in North America in the year 2059. The economic and political power...

enemies of the Crow. Plenty Coups had also experienced a vision when he was very young that non-Native American people would ultimately take control of his...

published in Portuguese as O Alquimista, 1988) subsequent novels in the Take Back Plenty series, Colin Greenland (1990+) Where There's a Will: Who Inherited...

was discovered in 1978 and appears as a setting in the 1990 novels Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland and The Ring of Charon by Roger MacBride Allen,...

crisis, governments are melting glaciers and modifying natural systems. To take advantage of the unrest, a Hindu fundamentalist leader named N.K. Jeevanji...

Summer (1983), and Helliconia Winter (1985). As the books of the trilogy take place centuries apart and lack a central protagonist -- instead giving time...

2006. It takes place in the same universe as Light. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Awards in 2007. Nova Swing takes place long...

Joker's Wild, his first band. Colin Greenland — Science fiction author (Take Back Plenty). Timothy Gowers — Mathematician. Fred Hoyle — astronomer and mathematician...

Plenty of Fish (POF) is a Canadian online dating service, popular primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Brazil...

Arthur C. Clarke Award for the book, but lost to Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty. Misha was an editor at science fiction magazine New Pathways; John...

average rating of 6.50/10. The site's consensus reads, "Back to School gives Rodney Dangerfield plenty of room to riff—and supports the freewheeling funnyman...

(December 19, 2017). "Last Jedi haters are nothing new. Plenty of fans hated Empire Strikes Back too". Mashable. Archived from the original on October 4...