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VALGUSA ODISEJA

V.MIHAILOVS

HORACIJS LEONARDS GOLDS, amerikāņu rakstnieks

VARONIS

ROBERTS MAKLOSKIJS, amerikāņu rakstnieks

VEL VAIRĀK

VIESIS NO BEZGALIBAS

 Georgijs MARTINOVS

IZDEVNIECĪBA «ZINĀTNE» RĪGA 1968

Tulkojusi SKAIDRĪTE CIELAVA

Mākslinieki

Oskars Bērziņš, Georgs Smelters

Publicēts saskaņā ar Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmijas Redak­ciju un izdevumu padomes 1967. gada 23. marta lēmumu

Nave ir fakts, kas jāizpētī

M. Gorkijs

Autora priekšvārds

Romāns «Viesis no bezgalības» iecerēts un aizsākts 1951. gadā. Toreiz es biju pārliecināts, ka romānā aprakstītie zinātnes un tehnikas sasniegumi tiks īstenoti ļoti tālā nā­kotnē, tāpēc pārnesu darbību divtūkstoš gadu uz priekšu.

Dzīve pierādījusi, ka man nebija taisnība. Un tagad es tikpat dziji esmu pārliecināts, ka zinātne un tehnika jau krietni agrāk sasniegs daudz vairāk, nekā esmu aprakstījis.

Taču mainīt romāna darbības laiku, man šķiet, nebūtu lietderīgi, galvenokārt «faetoniskās» sižeta līnijas dēļ.

Lai paliek viss tāpat, kā bijis. Lasītājs pats aprakstī­tajos notikumos pratīs saskatīt ne pārāk tālas nākotnes apveidus.

NIKOLAJS GOGOLIS

IZLASE

VIJS

LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA  1948

Tulk. Aleksandrs Čaks

Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

V.MIHAILOVS

Viņi atvēra durvis

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGĀ 1971

Tulkojis I. Livšics Māksliniece M. Muižule

V.MIHAILOVS

VIŅPUS DURVĪM

FANTASTISKS ROMĀNS

RĪGA «LIESMA» 1980

В. Михайлов

ДВЕРЬ С ТОЙ СТОРОНЫ Фантастический роман Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1974

No krievu valodas tulkojis Pēteris Zirnītis Mākslinieks Arvīds Galeviuss

Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1980

KLIFORDS SAIMAKS

VISA DZĪVĪBA ZAĻO

izdevniecība «zinātne» Rīga 1969

… Rāms un kluss vasaras rīts. Vakaru pusē pie tumša apvāršņa plaiksnās rūsa. Gaisā jūtams spirgts svaigums, kāds mēdz būt vienīgi pirms saullēkta, kad zemi vēl nav skārusi svelme …

Sādā jaukā rītā romāna varonis, kāds nomaļas Ame­rikas pilsētiņas Milvilas iedzīvotājs, neko nenojauz­dams, izbrauc uz šosejas, lai kopā ar savu draugu do­tos makšķerēt. Bet tieši tad Milvilā sākas neparasti no­tikumi, kuros viņš tiek ierauts. Atnācēji no citas dimen­sijas izvēlas viņu par starpnieku, lai piedāvātu cilvē­kiem sadarbību vispārēja miera vārdā …

Pazīstamais amerikāņu fantasts Klifords Saimaks savā romānā «Visa dzīvība zaļo» jaunā aspektā risina problēmu par kontaktu ar citām pasaulēm. Vai cilvēki uz Zemes būs gatavi šādam kontaktam? Vai Amerikas īstenība — mietpilsoņu aprobežotība, varasvīru asins- kāre un savtīgums neliks tam šķēršļus? Autors sniedz plašas un reālistiskas mazās pilsētiņas ikdienas ainas. Viņa romāns ir apsūdzība visiem tiem, kas mēģina ap­turēt progresu.

Romāns ir uzrakstīts spilgti un aizraujoši, un zināt­niskās fantastikas draugi lasīs to ar interesi.

No angļu valodas tulkojusi Helma Lapiņa Mākslinieks Gunvalds Elers

De nem létező vezetőik közül a legnagyobb tiszteletnek Wiharvész Anyó örvend közöttük.

Azonban még ő is kénytelen belátni, hogy a királyi udvar cselszövényeibe beleavatkozni jóval bonyolultabb, mint azt bizonyos színművek el szeretnék hitetni az emberrel…

Könnyű feladatnak tűnt... Elvégre nem lehet oly nehéz elintézni, hogy egy szolgálólány ne menjen hozzá a herceghez. Azonban a három boszorkánynak, Málotvix Nénének, Ogg Ángyinak és Magrat Nebléndeknek, akik elutaznak a messzi Génuába, a dolgok sosem ennyire egyszerűek…

A szolgálólányok sorsa az, hogy hozzá kell menniük a herceghez. Erről szól az élet. Nem lehet küzdeni a happy end ellen.

Legalábbis… eddig nem lehetett…

New series. Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once “Red” planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determine how and why it is changing. However, when the probe is destroyed well short of the formerly red planet, it’s apparent that Mars is being used as a staging ground. The only viable target for that staging ground is Earth. Ranging from rocket design to brilliant paranoids to “in your face” fighting in Iraq, Von Neumann Wars is a fast paced look at what would happen if the earth was attacked by a robot race that, quite accidentally, was bent on destroying civilization.

The sequel to Into the Looking Glass. William Weaver, PhD. and SEAL Chief Adams are back and Bill got himself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly garage mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship ready to go “out there.” But as everyone knows, the people who really are going to bear the brunt are the poor Security guys, Force Recon Marines who are kept in the dark and fed manure all day. That is until they land on an alien planet, get partially wiped out and then load back up again. Ranging in topics from the best gun to kill armored space monsters to particle physics to cosmology to health and beauty tips, Vorpal Blade is a return to the “good old days” of SF when the science problems were intractable and the beasts were ugly. The monkeys are out in the space lanes and ready to rock. As soon as they get another roll of duct tape.

The toughest case yet for Greywalker and P.I. Harper Blaine, 'a great heroine' (New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris), has arrived.

Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her in all sorts of 'strange cases.

But for Harper, her own case may prove the most difficult to solve. Why did she—as opposed to others with near-death experiences—become a Greywalker? When Harper digs into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. Forced by some very demanding vampires to take on an investigation in London, she soon discovers her present troubles in England are entangled with her dark past back in Seattle—and her ultimate destiny as a Greywalker.

Ironically, you’ll probably appreciate Vacuum Diagrams most after you’ve put it down. The prolific and acclaimed Stephen Baxter has always been praised for his imaginative and conscientious use of science, and Vacuum Diagrams is no exception. This collection of short stories will leave you ruminating for days over the sprawl of ideas, worlds, and life forms Baxter has woven together.

Filling in the gaps on Baxter’s ambitious, almost audacious, 10-million-year timeline called the “Xeelee Sequence,” Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of revised, previously published short stories that bridges together his popular novels set in this same “future history” — Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, and Ring. Baxter’s universe is rotten with life, from strange tree-stump-like creatures with superfluid ice skeletons to dark matter “birds” to sentient beings composed of pure mathematics. And Baxter’s reverence for life’s beauty, for its voracious robustness, is hard to resist — especially when it comes to humanity and its tentative, eager rise. The cycling timeline follows humans as they come into their own as a star-faring race, from their first sporadic steps to their near dominance of the universe and beyond.

Vacuum Diagrams is a great introduction to Baxter for those unfamiliar with him and a good primer for the other “Xeelee Sequence” novels. If you already love Baxter or the other novels in the sequence, Vacuum Diagrams is certainly a safe bet. Besides, any book that sends you scurrying quizzically after your college physics text deserves a closer look. Check it out.

—Paul Hughes (from amazon.com)

Rinchiusa nell’Avemo, il più impenetrabile carcere orbitale di massima sicurezza dell’intera galassia, Terra Viridian sconta la sua condanna senza poter sfuggire alla visione che le ha fatto massacrare senza motivo apparente più di millecinquecento persone. Una visione apocalittica, che lei stessa non comprende e all’esistenza della quale nessuno crede, ma la cui voce può significare un contatto totalmente nuovo per il genere umano. La scena cambia quando intorno a Terra iniziano ad agire strani personaggi: il Mago, capace di suonare Bach per ore e ore immerso in una profonda trance, Aaron, il poliziotto alla ricerca della gemella di Terra -Viridian misteriosamente scomparsa, e la Regina di Cuori, la musicista mascherata in grado di plasmare sonorità sempre nuove. Solo quando tutti questi destini si incroceranno nell’Averno, guidati da una voce a loro sconosciuta, arriverà il momento di giocare l’ultima partita.

Sul brulicante formicaio che è divenuta la Terra dopo il 2000, poco alla volta si impone una forma di religiosità che trae le sue basi dottrinali dalla scienza. È la religione di Noel Vorst, sono gli adoratori del Fuoco Blu dell’elettrone, sono le tonache azzurre dei monaci che manipolano i segreti dell’atomo. È una religione, quella di Vorst, il cui scopo finale è quello dell’immortalità… fisica! Ma in un mondo sovrappopolato l’immortalità fisica non è forse un controsenso? Ecco dunque la necessità di emigrare su altri mondi, mondi extrasolari. Ecco formarsi nello stesso tempo lo scisma degli Armonicisti di David Lazarus, che si oppone alla “chiesa” centrale fondando un ordine a parte... Che significato ha tutto ciò nel vasto gioco planetario nel cui centro è l’ultracentenario Noel Vorst e la cui posta finale sono le stelle?

Being a witch doesn't pay the bills, but Persephone Alcmedi gets by between reading Tarot cards, writing her syndicated newspaper column, and kenneling werewolves in the basement when the moon is full — even if witches aren't supposed to mingle with wolves. She really reaches the end of her leash, though, when her grandmother gets kicked out of the nursing home and Seph finds herself in the doghouse about some things she's written. Then her werewolf friend Lorrie is murdered…and the high priestess of an important coven offers Seph big money to destroy the killer, a powerful vampire named Goliath Kline.

Seph is a tough girl, but this time she bites off more than she can chew. She needs a little help from her friends — werewolf friends. One of those friends, Johnny, the motorcycle-riding lead singer for the techno-metal-Goth band Lycanthropia, has a crush on her. And while Seph has always been on edge around this 6 2" leather-clad hunk, she's starting to realize that although their attraction may be dangerous, nothing could be as lethal as the showdown that awaits them.

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.

But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.

When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger...

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

Gigantyczną planetę Majipoor o średnicy dziesięciokrotnie większej niż Ziemia zasiedlili w odległej przeszłości koloniści z naszej planety, znajdując na niej miejsce wśród rasy tubylczej, którą nazwali Metamorfami, jako że potrafią oni zmieniać wygląd. W wyniku przegranej wojny z ludźmi, Zmiennokształtni zostają zmuszeni do zamieszkania w rezerwatach. Na Majipoor przybywają tymczasem inne rasy: maleńcy Vroonowie, czteroręcy Skandarzy i dwugłowi Su-Suherisi. Niektóre z tych istot posiadają umiejętności parazmysłowe umożliwiające uprawianie magii.

Spokój snów Lorda Valentine'a, władcy olbrzymiego świata Majipoor, zakłócają mroczne koszmary, które niebawem stają się rzeczywistością. Majipoor staje wobec groźby kolejnej wojny z Metamorfami, którzy chcą wypędzić ze swojej planety najeźdźców. Zaprowadzony przez Koronala ład może runąć. Aby ocalić swój świat, Koronal zrzeka się władzy na rzecz młodego następcy Hissune'a.

Valiant picks up right where the third book, Courageous, left off, with the Alliance fleet leaving through the Ixion Star System's worm hole to return back to the Lakota Star System.

Michael Bishop è senz’altro uno degli autori più completi e maturi della fantascienza degli anni settanta-ottanta, come testimoniano opere ricche di forza narrativa e di brillanti ritratti di culture aliene quali Il tempo è il solo nemico e Il segreto degli Asadi. Qui lo vediamo all’opera nella descrizione di un’altra società di un futuro non molto lontano, costituita da «anziani» che si riuniscono in matrimoni di gruppo sponsorizzati dal governo. Il loro mondo e le loro strutture sociali sono affascinanti, ma sono proprio i personaggi, ognuno un essere umano magnificamente dipinto, che cattureranno la vostra attenzione e la vostra simpatia.

Più che come autore il compianto Terry Carr era famoso soprattutto come curatore di antologie e di collane fantascientifiche. In particolare è stato responsabile della celebre serie degli «Ace Specials» e delle ottime raccolte dei migliori racconti apparsi nell’anno, fatte prima per la «.Ace Books» e poi per la «Ballantine/Del Rey».

Questo originalissimo racconto ci dimostra la sua bravura anche come scrittore: si tratta di una storia piena di sensibilità e di gusto, una storia di una strana società futura popolata di fantasmi e di apparizioni. E al contempo è anche una storia d’amore: una storia curiosa e commovente che rimarrà nella mente dei lettori per molto tempo.

«Arthur Clarke — dice The New York Times— rompe todas las reglas. Escribe best sellers que no tienen sexo ni violencia, ni tensiones familiares, ni héroes convencionales.» Su popularidad es enorme, sin embargo. Baste recordar el éxito de Cita con Rama y 2010 Odisea dos. En esta nueva gran novela de ciencia ficción, Voces de un mundo distante, Clarke aborda uno de sus temas favoritos: el choque entre dos culturas. Thalassa es un verdadero paraíso. Un puñado de islas, en medio de un vasto y cálido océano planetario, donde se ha instalado una pequeña colonia humana que había emigrado de la Tierra antes de la destrucción del sistema solar, ocurrida doscientos años atrás. Los habitantes de Thalassa son felices. Viven en un mundo idílico, con abundantes recursos naturales. Pero su tranquilidad se rompe con la aparición del Magallanes, enorme nave espacial que conserva un millón de seres humanos hibernados, sobrevivientes de los últimos días de la tierra. Voces de un mundo distante es una novela inteligente e imaginativa, que explora los límites del conocimiento y el destino del hombre y del universo. Otra obra maestra del gran Arthur Clarke.

Sur Majipoor, la planète géante, règne Lord Valentin le Coronal, qui, naguère jongleur, a retrouvé son trône, mais conservé un corps d’emprunt. Ces faits de haute chronique ont été relatés dans Le château de Lord Valentin.

Mais il n’est pas dit que le règne de Valentin restera serein. Tandis que le Coronal entreprend son Périple à travers les immensités de Majipoor, afin de se faire voir de ses peuples, accompagné de Carabella, son épouse bien aimée, de ses amis des jours d’infortune devenus grands seigneurs et d’une armée de courtisans, les nuages s’amoncellent, les maladies frappent les récoltes, s’étendent comme feu de forêt. Des monstres surgissent des forêts d’habitude paisibles de Majipoor. La famine survient, et la rébellion.

Faudra-t-il faire la guerre aux Changeformes ? Car ce sont eux, premiers occupants de la planète, jadis massacrés et refoulés par les humains venus de l’espace, qui tentent une nouvelle révolte. Valentin, qui est épris de paix et d’amour, ne parvient pas à s’y résoudre. Majipoor va-t-elle sombrer ?

Vienādojums bez nezināmajiem

La doctora Sarah Halifax logró descifrar y contestar el primer mensaje enviado por extraterrestres. Al cabo de treinta y ocho años, cuando ella es ya casi nonagenaria, llega la respuesta. Sólo Sarah es capaz de descifrarla, si vive el tiempo suficiente… Sarah y su esposo Don son sometidos a un costoso tratamiento de rejuvenecimiento (vuelta atrás). Don recupera la fortaleza física de sus veinticinco años, pero Sarah…

Sawyer ofrece de nuevo una interesantísima exploración ética y moral, esta vez a escala humana y también cósmica, sobre la vida y el papel de la tecnología en el desarrollo futuro del ser humano.

Amazon.com

The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pick-pocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich–or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash.

From Publishers Weekly

Gibson's cyberpunk thriller set in a near-future L.A.–a two-week PW bestseller–depicts the hunt for virtual reality glasses containing classified data.

Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description

2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich–or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Venus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May - a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (dubbed the Winds) of Ventus - Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology to protect the created environment. As a result, Jordan escapes from Calandria and sets out to discover his destiny on his own. Calandria and others, both human and AI, search for Jordan, who holds the key to catastrophe or salvation. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with a big mystery - why have the Winds fallen silent?

Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Venus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May - a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (dubbed the Winds) of Ventus - Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology to protect the created environment. As a result, Jordan escapes from Calandria and sets out to discover his destiny on his own. Calandria and others, both human and AI, search for Jordan, who holds the key to catastrophe or salvation. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with a big mystery - why have the Winds fallen silent?

The fifth adventure of Captain William Laurence and his extraordinary fighting dragon, Temeraire, as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and Africa.

Laurence and Temeraire have betrayed the British. They have foiled their attempts to inflict death upon the French dragons by sharing the cure they found in Africa with their enemy. But following their conscience has a price. Laurence feels he must return to face the consequences, and as soon as they land they are taken into custody. Laurence is condemned to the gallows and Temeraire faces a life of captivity in the breeding grounds. None of their friends or allies can come to their aid, for every hand is needed elsewhere. Britain is completely unprepared for Bonaparte invasion and the advanced tactics of his own celestial dragon -- Temeraire's mortal enemy -- Lien.

When you're staring evil in the eye, don't forget to watch your back . . .

For the first time in forever, Jayné Heller's life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover, and newfound confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them. At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago, something is stirring. Patients are going AWOL and research subjects share the same sinister dreams. Half a century ago, something was buried under Grace in a terrible ritual, and it's straining to be free. Jayné is primed to take on whatever's about to be let loose. Yet the greatest danger now may not be the huge, unseen force lurking below, but the evil that has been hiding in plain sight all along — taking her ever closer to losing her body, her mind, and her soul. . . .

La trilogia dei «Dragonieri di Pern», di cui «Volo di Drago» è la prima parte, è uno dei più interessanti cicli narrativi che la fantascienza ha prodotto in questi ultimi anni nel suo sforzo di rinnovamento interno, tematico e stilistico; è il tentativo ad ampio respiro di creare «ex novo» una mitologia complessa e coordinata, che non sia un semplice adattamento di mitologie «terrestri».

Esso è dovuto ad un nome nuovo, lanciato da John Campbell sulle pagine di «Analog», Anne McCaffrey, che si rivela scrittrice sensibile, originale e dalle notevoli doti letterarie. Sia i lettori che i critici statunitensi hanno testimoniato illoro apprezzamento per quest’opera, i cui diversi capitoli sono apparsi in più riprese sulle riviste di Campbell: i primi assegnando il Premio Hugo 1968 per il miglior romanzo breve alla parte iniziale del romanzo; i secondi il Premio Nebula 1969 per la stessa categoria all’ultima parte di esso. Anne McCaffrey è stata così la prima donna a vincere i due massimi premi fantascientifici americani.

Жизнь Саши Самохиной превращается в кошмар. Ей сделали предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться; окончив школу, Саша против своей воли поступает в странный институт Специальных Технологий, где студенты похожи на чудовищ, а преподаватели — на падших ангелов. Здесь ее учат… Чему? И что случится с ней по окончании учебы?

Жизнь Саши Самохиной превращается в кошмар. Ей сделали предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться; окончив школу, Саша против своей воли поступает в странный институт Специальных Технологий, где студенты похожи на чудовищ, а преподаватели — на падших ангелов. Здесь ее учат… Чему? И что случится с ней по окончании учебы?

Жизнь Саши Самохиной превращается в кошмар. Ей сделали предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться; окончив школу, Саша против своей воли поступает в странный институт Специальных Технологий, где студенты похожи на чудовищ, а преподаватели — на падших ангелов. Здесь ее учат… Чему? И что случится с ней по окончании учебы?

Viernes es su nombre. Es una mujer. Y es un mensajero secreto. Está empleada por un hombre al que únicamente conoce como "Jefe". Operando desde y a través de una Tierra de un futuro próximo, en la cual Norteamérica ha sido balcanizada en docenas de estados independientes, en donde la cultura ha sido extrañamente vulgarizada y el caos es la norma feliz, se enfrenta a una sorprendente misión que la hace ir de un lado para otro bajo unas órdenes aparentemente absurdas. De Nueva Zelanda al Canadá, de uno a otro de los nuevos estados desunidos de América, mantiene ingeniosamente su equilibrio con rápidas y expeditivas soluciones, de una calamidad y embrollo a otro. Desesperada por la identidad y las relaciones humanas, nunca está segura si se halla un paso por delante, o un paso por detrás, del definitivo destino de la raza humana. Porque Viernes es una Persona Artificial… la mayor gloria de la ingeniería genética.

Una de las mejores obras de Heinlein, lo cual es lo mismo que decir una de las mejores de toda la ciencia ficción…

Jest rok 1964. Nazistowskie Niemcy triumfują w Europie oraz Azji i przygotowują się do obchodów 75 urodzin Hitlera. Prezydent USA J.F.Kennedy ma przybyć z oficjalną wizytą do Rzeszy, aby przywrócić stosunki dyplomatyczne miedzy krajami. Wtedy uwagę władz przykuwa seria tajemniczych morderstw. Wszystkie ofiary łączy udział w planie eksterminacji Żydów i Słowian. Śledztwo rozpoczynają agencji niemieckiego wywiadu, szpiedzy i amerykańska dziennikarka. Rozwiązanie okaże się bardziej zaskakujące, niż ktokolwiek przypuszcza.

The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one day

it seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitant

Alexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town.

Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself an

outsider in "Dullsville," is determined to uncover the truth surrounding

the secretive Alexander. As she gets to know him, and their spark

intensifies, Raven finds herself in some unanticipated situations. Can

Alexander make her lifelong dream come true? But love always has its

complications-especially when it can only be awakened at nightfall.

Raven is back with her vampire beau Alexander in VAMPIREVILLE. Not much background is given here, so readers should definitely go back and read the first two books in this funny series by Ellen Schreiber to prepare for this adventure. In this volume, Raven and Alexander try to meet for the few hours each day when both are awake. Raven is literally dying to have Alexander turn her into a vampire on sacred ground (like a cemetery), making her his eternal mate. But he likes her for who she is and is unwilling to take that final step.

Under the Communist President-for-Life, a voodoo priest named Generalissimo Sacrist Corazon, the natives of the Caribbean Isle Baqia aren't complaining, thanks to a delicious drug they call "mung." When shot through with radiation, however, mung becomes a powerful weapon: it literally liquefies the opposition, and Generalissimo Corazon has no qualms about using it. After an innocent missionary becomes the latest victim of Corazon's mung machine, the world is alarmed, and deadly forces are inspired. The Chinese, the Russians, and the CIA all vie to control the mung machine, while CURE's own powerful weapons, Remo and Chiun, make their way to Baqia and further discover nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. Sacrist Corazon must be stopped, but has the Destroyer met his deadly voodoo match?

Vampire Mountain is the fourth title in the gut-wrenching saga of Darren Shan. Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley make a long and dangerous trek to the vampire's stronghold in the mountains. The trek is a test of skill and endurance one which sees Darren's vampire nature develop, and a new understanding of the mysterious blue-robed servants of the sinister Mr. Tiny. Gavner Purl makes a welcome return when he joins Darren and Mr. Crepsley, but they face more than the cold on their way to the vampire princes — the vampaneze have been there before them… Will Darren's meeting with the Vampire Princes restore is human nature, or turn him further towards the darkness…

The Vampire Generals have been betrayed. Forces gathering in the darkness threaten to overwhelm Vampire Mountain and destroy the entire vampire clan. Only one person can stop them, a half-vampire called Darren Shan. But he has been sentenced to death and was last seen disappearing down a stream into the stomach of the mountain…

The third, concluding part of the Vampire Mountain trilogy is a fast-paced, savage, blood-soaked novel. From the brutal opening chapters to the battle between the forces of the night, this is a book designed to grip from the start and squeeze to the finish. If you wish to ride the currents of fierce underground waters, hunt with wolves, and fight alongside an army of spiders — then this is the book for you!

The Saga of Darren Shan. Not just a story, but a way of life — and death…

CHALLENGE ME WITH MONSTERS!

"From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of a killer.... Words issued from between those curved fangs, words which Dane might not understand....

"Dane slid his blade out surreptitiously, setting its point against the palm of his hand and jabbing painfully; but the terrible creature continued to advance.... There was no blurring of its lines...."

Dane Thorson of the space-ship Solar Queen knew there was only one way to win out over this hideous thing — a battle to the end between his rational mind and the hypnotic witchcraft of Lumbrilo, the mental wizard of the planet Khatka.

"From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of a killer.... Words issued from between those curved fangs, words which Dane might not understand....

"Dane slid his blade out surreptitiously, setting its point against the palm of his hand and jabbing painfully; but the terrible creature continued to advance.... There was no blurring of its lines...."

Dane Thorson of the space-ship Solar Queen knew there was only one way to win out over this hideous thing — a battle to the end between his rational mind and the hypnotic witchcraft of Lumbrilo, the mental wizard of the planet Khatka.

TAL COMO PREDIJERON LOS ANTIGUOS PROFETAS, un apocalipsis destruyó el planeta en el siglo XXI. Pero, dos mil años después, Elyon puso en el mundo a un nuevo Adán. Sin embargo, esta vez Dios otorgó una ventaja a la humanidad. Lo que una vez fue invisible, ahora se podía ver. Era algo bueno y recibía el nombre de… Verde.

Pero el maligno Teeleh aguardaba su oportunidad en un Bosque Negro.

Entonces, en el momento menos esperado, un joven de veinticuatro años conocido como Thomas Hunter se durmió en nuestro mundo y despertó en ese futuro Bosque Negro. Se había abierto una puerta para que Teeleh arrasara la tierra. Desolados por esa desgracia, Thomas Hunter y su Círculo juraron luchar contra el tenebroso azote hasta su último aliento.

Pero ahora el Círculo ha perdido la esperanza. Samuel, el amado hijo de Thomas Hunter, ha abandonado a su padre. Se ha unido a las fuerzas oscuras para iniciar una guerra final. Thomas se siente destrozado y busca desesperadamente la manera de regresar a nuestra realidad para dar con una esquiva esperanza que podría salvarlos a todos.

Entra en este relato apocalíptico, distinto a todo lo que has leído. Una historia que enlaza con la nuestra de una manera tan ¡impactante que te hará olvidar que estás en otro mundo.

Romanul prezintă evenimentele ce au loc când Ender Wiggin, personajul principal al primului roman al seriei, călătoreşte pe planeta Lusitania, în încercarea de a găsi un loc unde poate reînvia specia gândacilor, pe care o distrusese în Jocul lui Ender.

Premiul Nebula 1986.

Premiul Hugo 1987.

Фантастическая повесть о мире, где властвуют женщины во главе с мистичной и ужасной Королевой, о мужчинах — их рабах и верных (верных ли?) слугах и о любви. Немного.

Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her father’s hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him.

Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet… and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak.

For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build — or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye's own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos — explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable.

Der 1920 geborene Autor ergriff den Beruf des Biochemikers und wurde schließlich Universitätsprofessor. Doch seinen Weltruhm erlangte Asimov als Science-Fiction-Autor.

Wir bringen hier im 3. und letzten Teil seiner Kollektion »Nightfall«

die Story von den ausgedienten Autos -

die Story des Gottes der Fliegen -

die Story des kleinen Fußgängers -

die Story der modernen Parias -

die Story von der Gebrauchsanweisung -

die Story von den Hormonen -

die Lefkowitz-Story -

die Story von den schleimigen Ungeheuern -die Story vom Computer, der den Krieg gewann -die Story von den Kommunikationsproblemen -und die Story von den Augen, die nicht nur sehen.

Die ersten beiden Teile der Asimov-Kollektion erschienen als Bände 45 und 47 in der Taschenbuchreihe UTOPIA CLASSICS.

UTOPIA CLASSICS-Band 49

Titel des Originals: NIGHTFALL - 3. Teil

Orion finds himself thrust back to the ancient world of Greece and must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy. If he fails, he will lose the only woman he has ever loved. But if he succeeds, the history of the world will be changed forever. The stunning sequel to Orion.

Como en todos los viajes iniciáticos, en El viaje a Oriente lo que cuenta no es la meta esquiva e imprecisa, sino el recorrido en sí mismo, el proceso que lleva a sus protagonistas hacia el descubrimiento de una nueva realidad, que pasa por la muerte simbólica y el renacimiento espiritual. Esta novela es, junto con Siddharta, la más importante contribución de Herman Hesse al tema del desarrollo interior del hombre y la búsqueda del sentido de la existencia. Se trata de una novela breve claramente alegórica, en el que un singular viaje colectivo hacia Oriente, una especie de mística Cruzada emprendida por una misteriosa hermandad, sirve de base para un vigoroso y poético alegato a favor de otro tipo de relaciones, más auténticas y profundas, con uno mismo y con el mundo. Es un viaje fantástico que, como los viajes de la imaginación y de los sueños, se salta las barreras del espacio y del tiempo, pues su objetivo no es otro que el de englobar la experiencia humana en un todo armonioso y significativo.

As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar’s Station. And when Ar’s Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and other survivors make their escape from the defeated port.

But with the forces of Cos now readying to continue on their devastating march of conquest, Tarl must go undercover as a spy within the enemy camp, hoping to discover their plans and send word to Ar’s army before it is too late...

In VAGABONDS OF GOR, Tarl Cabot faces perhaps his greatest challenge of all, as he is caught up in the myriad dangers and intrigue of two mighty powers at war!

As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar’s Station. And when Ar’s Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and other survivors make their escape from the defeated port.

But with the forces of Cos now readying to continue on their devastating march of conquest, Tarl must go undercover as a spy within the enemy camp, hoping to discover their plans and send word to Ar’s army before it is too late...

In VAGABONDS OF GOR, Tarl Cabot faces perhaps his greatest challenge of all, as he is caught up in the myriad dangers and intrigue of two mighty powers at war!

SHE’S LIKE A VIRGIN … SIMULATED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

For a red-blooded male, Las Vegas offers a virtual smorgasbord of temptation: sexy showgirls, vampy vampires, zombie starlets, you name it. But paranormal investigator Delilah Street isn’t worried about losing her man to these vixens. Especially when the one woman with a soft spot for the guy also has a hard-shelled exterior....

She’s a robot—or a CinSim, to be exact—a near-perfect simulation of the silver-metal robot Maria from the classic science fiction movie Metropolis. Part innocent teenage actress, part depraved sex goddess, the new Maria is hooked on Delilah’s partner, Ric, who raised her from the dead. She also happens to be the perfect secret weapon for a demonic drug lord. Which could be one hell of a problem. Delilah’s not the jealous type, but this tin-can temptress must be stopped—even if it forces Delilah to forge a dangerous alliance with her wicked mirror-twin, Lilith. If robo-girl goes ballistic, every player in Vegas loses....

Chi crede che la fantascienza debba ormai trattare sempre e soltanto di profondi problemi sociologici, ecologici, geopolitici, biopsichici, genetici, fenomenologici eccetera, non legga questo romanzo. Chi invece apprezza ancora i viaggi e le avventure nelle abissali profondità del cosmo, s’imbarchi senz’altro col quartiermastro Torwald e il mozzo Kelly su “L’angelo dello Spazio”, una vecchia astronave da trasporto destinata a raggiungere una zona della Galassia dove nessuna flotta terrestre o extraterrestre aveva ancora mai osato avventurarsi.

Жизнь Саши Самохиной превращается в кошмар. Ей сделали предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться; окончив школу, Саша против своей воли поступает в странный институт Специальных Технологий, где студенты похожи на чудовищ, а преподаватели – на падших ангелов. Здесь ее учат… Чему? И что случится с ней по окончании учебы?

Skandijský oberjarl Erak podnikne nájezd na pobřeží pouštní země Aridy, přitom je však prozrazen, zajat a uvězněn. Jeho zástupce Svengal se proto vypraví do Araluenu a požádá o pomoc. Halt a Will se nabídnou, že se vypraví se Svengalem do Aridy a přivezou výkupné, jenže má-li být jejich cesta úspěšná a Erak osvobozen, potřebují mít s sebou osobu z královského rodu. Princezna Kassandra — nebo Evanlyn, jak ji zná Will — tedy přemluví svého otce, aby jí dovolil odplout na jih. K výpravě se ještě připojí Horác a Gilan, aby byla dostatečně zajištěna princeznina ochrana.

Ale dostane se naše šestice statečných přes poušť, kterou obývají znesvářené kmeny a kde na každém kroku hrozí neznámá nebezpečí, k Erakovi včas?

v1.0 - eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754 and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (24.05.2008)

What kind of assassin works pro bono?

It’s hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab Monroe, the Fire elemental who murdered my family. Which means protecting my identity, even if I have to conceal my powerful Stone and Ice magic when I need it most.

To the public, I’m Gin Blanco, owner of Ashland’s best barbecue joint. To my friends, I’m the Spider, retired assassin. I still do favors on the side. Like ridding a vampire friend of her oversized stalker—Mab’s right-hand goon who almost got me dead with his massive fists.

At least irresistible Owen Grayson is on my side. The man knows too much about me, but I’ll take my chances. Then there’s Detective Bria Coolidge, one of Ashland’s finest. Until recently, I thought my baby sister was dead. She probably thinks the same about me. Little does she know, I’m a cold-blooded killer . . . who is about to save her life.

A regény hőse Hal Bregg, a kozmoszban tett hosszú útjáról tér vissza a földre, ahol időközben teljesen megváltozott viszonyokat talál. Nemcsak a technika alakul át — más az életmód, és más az emberek természete. S más a férfiak és nők egymáshoz való viszonya is. Hal összeütközésbe kerül ezzel a megváltozott, néha meghökkentően idegen világgal és lakosaival, akik nem honfitársai az időben, s mégis velük kell leélnie hátralévő életét. Végül a szerelem segíti hozzá, hogy megtalálja a helyét, s lázongás és keserűség nélkül gondolhasson azokra, akik elrepülnek a csillagok aranygyapjúáért…

Pod podlahou Obchodu se rozprostírá svět deset centimetrů vysokých nómů, svět skrytý očím velkých lidí. Jak všichni nómové dobře ví, Obchod byl stvořen všemocným bří Arnoldové, aby v něm mohli spokojeně žít a našli v něm „Vše pod jednou střechou“. A tudíž nemůže existovat nic takového jako Zvenčí. Dává to dokonalý smysl. Tedy alespoň až do chvíle, kdy se objeví skupinka nómů, kteří přijeli na náklaďáku, tvrdí, že jsou Zvenčí, mluví o Dnech, Nocích, Sněhu a podobných bláznivých pověrách. A nakonec objeví ohromující zprávu — Obchod bude zbourán. Muskulín, jeden ze Zvenkovanů, musí vymyslet odvážný plán útěku, který, pokud se povede, navždy změní nómí pohled na svět.

„Velký boj“ je druhým vyprávěním o nomech, vesmírných trosečnících ne větších než čtyři couly, kteří stále ještě hledají Cestu Domů. Ve „Velké jízdě“ svým důvtipem a šikovností rozjeli náklaďák a odjeli z Obchoďáku.

Toto je vyprávění o Velkém Boji… O tom, jak nomové bojují s člověkem o „svůj“ kamenolom. Jak znovu hledají Cestu Domů a utíkají na Jekubovi s dlouhým krkem, obrovskou zubatou tlamou a velikými boubelatými pneumatikami…

A legendary Skinner has passed. Among the articles he left behind are runes, potions, and powerful weapons to aid in the ongoing war against the unspeakable creatures that prowl the shadows outside normal human consciousness. But there is something else: the remains of a terrifying beast no other Skinner has ever encountered. And it isn't dead.

Skinners, partners, lovers, Cole Warnecki and Paige Strobel are well armed with the tools the late Jonah Lancroft provided. But even his best weapons may not be enough to defeat the monstrosity they now face. A new terror has risen up to infect them both with its virulent malevolence, even as Paige confronts the secrets of her astonishing past. The purest evil walks the world again - the First Deceiver, humankind's darkest nightmare, the self-proclaimed King of the Full Bloods.

Un cerveau d'ordinateur, un corps surentraîné à tous les risques, et la beauté en plus : telle est Vendredi. L'agent idéal en ce monde futur, en ce monde de demain.

Et, en effet la voici qui rentre de la planète Ell-Cinq, mission accomplie une fois de plus, et quelle mission ! Félicitations du Grand Patron et droit aux vacances.

Heureuse, Vendredi ? Non, tourmentée comme jamais encore, hantée d'images : le viol atroce qu'elle a subi, les meurtres qu'elle a commis. Vendredi la non-humaine aurait-elle une conscience ?

Voci di terra lontana (The Songs of Distant Earth) è il titolo di diversi lavori di fantascienza di Arthur C. Clarke, tra cui un racconto breve di fantascienza, e un romanzo del 1986 che portano lo stesso titolo.

La storia è ambientata 1800 anni nel futuro, nel distante pianeta oceanico di Thalassa. Thalassa viene popolato da esseri umani tramite una navicella carica di embrioni, partita dalla Terra nel tentativo di salvare la razza umana. Il romanzo comincia con un’introduzione sui Thalassiani; Mirissa, un’attraente biologa marina, e il suo partner, Brant, mentre sono in barca vedono l’arrivo di una nave spaziale. È così che finisce la loro pacifica esistenza, con l’apparizione della Magellano, un’astronave proveniente dalla Terra che contiene un milione di persone ibernate. Gli eventi che portarono la Terra a salvare la razza umana sono spiegati nel libro tramite flash-back. Gli scienziati nel 1967 scoprirono che l’emissione di neutrini dal Sole, un risultato delle reazioni di fusione nucleare, erano molte meno di quelle che avrebbero dovuto essere. Meno di un decennio dopo venne confermato che non era un errore degli strumenti. Il Sole stava per trasformarsi in una nova nel giro di 3600 anni.

La tecnologia era abbastanza avanzata da permettere diverse spedizioni di navicelle contenenti embrioni di esseri umani e di altri mammiferi, oltre a robot per crescerli, verso pianeti che erano considerati abitabili. La spedizione di esseri umani vivi non era stata nemmeno presa in considerazione poiché, essendo la velocità della luce un limite insuperabile e le distanze dei pianeti molto elevate, la durata del viaggio sarebbe stata comunque di secoli. Si era deciso quindi di inviare navi cariche di embrioni, dette navi inseminatrici, insieme ad un gruppo di robot che arrivato a destinazione si sarebbe occupato di preparare il territorio e allevare gli esseri umani.

Annie, una bambina di sette anni, comincia a essere colta da strane crisi durante le quali sogna eventi passati che lei non ha vissuto e tragici fatti che puntualmente si verificano. Quasi tutti considerano semplici coincidenze queste visioni premonitrici, ma quando la piccola contribuisce al ritrovamento di un cadavere, la polizia si arrende all’evidenza. Chi è il responsabile dell’omicidio?

Título Original: The songs of a distant earth

Traducción de Daniel Zadunaisky

©1986 by Serendib BV

©1986 Emecé Editores S.A.

Alsina 2062 — Buenos Aires

ISBN 950-04-0558

Lord Valentine, antes de asumir el cargo de Pontífice, debe afrontar las tareas de gobierno en una época de rebelión y enfrentarse al duro y pragmático Hissune, a fin de regir un planeta bruscamente turbulento.

El conflicto de los dos hombres y su resolución constituye la esencia de este mosaico poblado de personajes, como los esquivos metamorfos de forma humanoide, que ponen a prueba al futuro Pontífice.

“Valentine Pontífice” es el remate incitante y conmovedor de una fantasía brillantemente ejecutada.

Было время, когда я не знала, как, черт побери, знакомиться в сети. Вот в этих целях и умудрилась написать в 2004-м году целую повесть в 47-ми главах, да еще по мотивам игры Gothic II, да еще и для форума, на котором очень хотела найти друзей! Пусть я несколько краснею за этот опус, но из песТни слов не выкинешь. Было, значит, БЫЛО. Написано отчасти "великим могучим и свободным русским языка", так что не судите строго.

A robot, like a computer, is a machine that follows the instructions it is given. But how is it to deal with something it doesn’t recognize or about which it has no instructions? If it is anything like the caretaker robot in W. R. Thompson’s “VRM-547”, it will deal with the situation very effectively.

Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1991.

On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity's deepest fears: dragons.

Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she's breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she'd rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When the dragon Artegal unexpectedly saves her life, the rules are abruptly shattered, and a secret friendship grows between them.

But suspicion and terror are the legacy of human and dragon interactions, and the fragile truce that has maintained peace between the species is unraveling. As tensions mount and battles begin, Kay and Artegal are caught in the middle. Can their friendship change the course of a war?

In her young-adult debut, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn presents a distinctly twenty-first-century tale of myths and machines, and an alliance that crosses a seemingly unbridgeable divide.

The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963.

Voyage is the epic saga of America’s might-have-been — a powerful, sweeping novel imaginatively created from true lives and real events. NASA, the Saturn rocket, and historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters that only a world-class novelist could bring to life: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; Lee, the small-scale aerospace contractor with a big dream; Priest, who gives his life so that others might live to walk on Mars. And most memorable of all, Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who is her own worst enemy, and best friend; a passionate woman who risks a career and a lifelong love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

Voyage won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997.

Mort (geddit?) Vickers is a CORPorate Security Executive (i.e., a company hitman) in a near-future America wherein the Corporations have usurped most of the functions of Government and are a law unto themselves. We first meet him on a return Shuttle flight from an orbiting space station, where he has just eliminated a potential troublemaker. On arrival, Vickers learns that his own Corporate employer has "lost" an entire underground nuclear command facility to a megalomanic executive, who is on the point of sealing the bunker against the outside world and running it as his own personal domain. Through a number of violent subterfuges, Vickers is inveigled into the bunker with the mission: get it back and kill those responsible. Excellently bleak and savage, the first of a series of ‘80s/’90s "realist" works which claw America’s decadent corporate inhumanity.

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).

Mind games of the deadly kind: Telepaths to the left of them, telepaths to the right of them. And danger is all around Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi when a Psi Corps Convention is held on Babylon 5. Someone will turn this meeting of mind readers into a real blast… as a bomb makes Babylon 5 a death trap.

Voices: the prime suspect is resident telepath Talia Winters. With Talia’s old foes, thought-cops Bester and Gray, calling for her head, Ivanova and Garibaldi can’t openly help her. Now she’s running for her life through a perilous universe, and her psychic talent is her only weapon when her path is blocked by staggering intergalactic horrors: psi-cops closing in… and a killer waiting.

«…За Шеатским перевалом тракт довольно прямой, и на нем имеется несколько мостов через трещины в земле. Один такой мост не выдержал, и караван оказался разделен. Те, кто остался на нашей стороне, повернули вдоль обрыва к следующему мосту, переправившиеся продолжили свой путь. Они собирались встретиться в ближайшей деревне, но до цели добрались только отставшие. Начались поиски, нашли трупы, причем, и это самое странное, не все, да и те далеко друг от друга. Место схватки, если схватка вообще была, обнаружить не удалось. Отыскалась только драная тряпка с пятнами крови – похоже, кинжал вытирали… Следы лошадей вели к Реке, налетчики переправились через нее примерно посередине между двумя форпостами и вместе с добычей ушли в саванну.

– И часто тут у вас такое?…»

Ancient texts refer to 'Gods' flying in craft called vimanas and waging war with what sound like nuclear weapons. These accounts are today classified as myth or legend. What if they turned out to be real? Vimana is an edge-of your seat sci-fi technothriller about a young college student who stumbles upon an ancient war between good and evil. A war that we thought was merely a part of our ancient myths and legends, but unknown to us, is still being waged everyday in our skies. As the forces of darkness conspire to unleash worldwide devastation to coincide with the End Times prophecies in 2012, he discovers his hidden destiny is to join the forces of light in bringing this war to a conclusion. At stake will be the continued existence of the human race. Star Wars meets Transformers in this exciting new thriller that will keep all science fiction fans satisfied.

Vlny ztišují vítr… V textu věta byla pronesena vlastně náhodně, ale ve finále ji komentuje Gorbovskij, a to stačí k tomu, aby pozorný čtenář získal k této větě uctivý vztah. Navíc někdo z hrdinů ještě prohodil slovo „bozi“ („údělem bohů je vyvolávat vítr“).

Znovu jsou lidé postaveni proti bohům? Ovšem pokud je vítr údělem bohů, co znamenají „vlny“, které jsou s to postavit se větru a zabránit „božímu záměru“? Nejsou to vlny lidskosti v člověku, které ponechávají člověka tváří v tvář s jeho lidskými problémy? Být člověkem není břímě, je to povinnost, čestná nezbytnost, je to život sám. Novela bratří Strugackých tedy znovu připomněla vědomí povinnosti být člověkem.

Бессмертие по клубной карте, кровь по талонам, йога в полночь, вечеринки до рассвета, шопинг вне очереди, любовь с первого укуса. Добро пожаловать в элитарный Клуб вампиров! Людям вход строго воспрещен.

Una superstrada. Una macchina. E dollari per le vacanze. Quattro studenti universitari attraversano diagonalmente l’America, fino al deserto dell’Arizona. La scarrozzata è anche una fuga dal rock, dalla droga, dall’astrologia... Qualcosa di molto più eccitante aspetta i quattro boys: un miraggio di immortalità che il Libro dei Teschi, un antico manoscritto casualmente ritrovato, offre a chi accetta i Diciotto Misteri dell’Iniziazione. Purtroppo, la vita eterna non sarà elargita a tutti: due ragazzi dovranno morire affinche gli altri vivano. I primi dubbi: esiste davvero, laggiù nel deserto, la casa dell’eterna giovinezza?... All’avventura esoterica, oggi molto attuale nei "colleges", si ispira «Vacanze nel deserto», un eccezionale romanzo "fantastico" che appaga il nostro bisogno di mistero: con questo libro Silverberg dà una risposta nuova, abbagliante e terribile.

Anche pubblicato come “Alla larga!”.

Комедийный супербоевик с элементами ужасов, катастроф и эротики

Это довольно саркастическая повесть, которая по объему тянет на роман, а по бредовости и на целую эпопею. Хорошего вкуса в ней ноль, но зато более, чем достаточно комедийных битв, катастроф, ужасов, и мата. Эротики немного, но она есть. Первая глава, как я считаю, наименее художественно ценная, и это не завлекаловка, а чистая правда. В общем и целом, автор обещает всем осмелившимся тонну жуткого и смешного удовольствия. В этой книге есть все, что вы можете себе представить. Как говорил герой одного фильма: сауна — это все, и еще кое-что. Поскольку текст очень большой, неизбежны ляпы и опечатки, которые автор обязуется со временем исправить. Повесть понравится читателям с чувством черного юмора, которым нравится одновременно "Живая мертвечина" Питера Джексона и мультфильм "Остров сокровищ". Фэнтэзи как таковая начинается со второй части (повесть поделена на 5 частей), поэтому самые нетерпеливые могут начать прямо с нее. Суть будет немного потеряна, но это, наверное, не важно. Сам этот опус посвящен жутким 1990-м и в какой-то степени отражает ту бредятину, которая тогда происходила.

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called ‘the Hypotheticals.’ In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.

With the arrival of spring, the Emperor Maniakes vows to unleash his troops against the enemy capital, where a hated despot sits arrogantly upon the throne. But from the moment Maniakes reaches the land of the Thousand Cities, he is plagued by a question no one can answer. Where is his nemesis, the ruthless commander whose cavalry no opposing force can withstand?.

Wissenschaftlich-phantastische Erzählung

`Viaje por tres mundos`, novela corta de AS Abramov, sobre un experimento para trasladarse a través de los diferentes mundos paralelos, con la consecuente confusión en la mente del protagonista.

Un mondo completamente diverso dal nostro; la civiltà dei ledom, enigmatiche creature ermafrodite, che hanno osato rivoluzionare sesso e religione per ottenere quello che l’homo sapiens non ha mai avuto. Charlie Johns, un uomo come tanti altri, uno di, noi, scaraventato d’improvviso in una situazione estranea, costretto ad osservare e giudicare questa civiltà alternativa. Da questi elementi Theodore Sturgeon, uno dei massimi autori americani di science-fiction, ha tratto una storia sublime e impegnativa; ha costruito un’opera che scava ’nelle nostre coscienze, indagando senza pietà sino al fondo della storia umana. Un romanzo che non è semplicemente un romanzo: una stupefacente lezione di libertà, un canto corale sul futuro del nostro pianeta. E i bambini diventano divinità, il tempo perde le dimensioni consuete, il cielo è una cupola d’energia. Attraverso una trama magicamente semplice, ricca di simbolismi e d’inventiva, Sturgeon tiene avvinto il lettore fino all’agghiacciante conclusione. Come ha scritto Frederik Pohl: “Forse questo non e il romanzo più strano di Sturgeon, ma e senz’altro il più bello.”

Nominate per il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 1961.

Gibson új regénye a XXI. század első évtizedébe, egy neurománc — ciklusnál közelebbi jövőbe vezet. Hősei egy széthullóban lévő világ információfogyasztó polgárai, akik gyorsan élnek, de nem lehetnek sem gyorsabbak, sem okosabbak a mindenütt jelenlévő számítógépeknél…

Vampire$ is about a tightly knit group of professional vampire killers. They may say they’re in it for the money, but their death-defying bravado and warm male friendships are as intense as those in any soldier-hero epic. The irrepressible, foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin’ Jack Crow—decked out in high-tech chain mail and wielding a fearsome crossbow—is the leader of the bunch. He’s the sort of man who screams obscenities at the pope, and then (after a lot of booze) weeps in the pontiff’s lap over the horrors he’s witnessed.

A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction’s greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.

When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.

There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family.

But Jinny wasn’t willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn’t really Jinny Hamilton—it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system.

And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family’s plans for him—he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business.

Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn’t most men. To Jinny’s surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars.

He was on his way to succeeding when his plans—and the plans of billions of others—were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity’s strength and ingenuity just to survive.

Caitlin, jeune américaine de seize ans, aveugle de naissance, se voit proposer par un chercheur japonais, le professeur Kuroda, une prothèse qui remédierait à la défaillance de son nerf optique - l'œil lui-même et les centres visuels de son cerveau étant fonctionnels. Après la pose de la prothèse, le professeur Kuroda vient au Canada pour installer la liaison informatique avec le Japon qui traitera l'information. Dans un premier temps, le dispositif ne fonctionne pas : Caitlin ne voit pas le monde mais un réseau de lignes brillantes... Elle finit par comprendre qu'elles représentent le réseau Internet. La Toile, le Web. Le World Wide Web. Celui-ci, en retour, reçoit ce que l'œil de Caitlin voit, découvre par là même un nouvel univers, s'éveille à la conscience et devient une personne. Bientôt, le Réseau et Caitlin vont communiquer directement et la jeune fille, par ailleurs surdouée, va brancher la nouvelle entité sur des sites qui lui permettront d'apprendre et de comprendre notre monde...

The conclusion of the story begun in "The Silence of Medair". A glossary of terms can be found at the end of the book.

Medair an Rynstar wants only to leave.

Five hundred years after the Empire she served fell before the Ibisian invasion, Medair has betrayed her Emperor’s memory by helping the descendants of the invaders. She knows she will be reviled, that to thousands she is hero-become-villain. Her one goal is to return to the hidden cave where she slept out of time, and hope that she wakes in a world where the name Medair an Rynstar has been forgotten.

Assassins, armies, and desperate magic complicate Medair’s plan of escape, leading her inexorably to face the very people her choice has cost the most. She has learned that you can never to return to your past, or run from the consequences of your actions, but can she find a way to live in defeat?

The words VITA NOSTRA, or “our life,” come from an old Latin student anthem Gaudeamus: “Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur” or “Our life is brief, It will shortly end…”

The heroine of the novel has been forced into a seemingly inconceivable situation. Against her will, she must enter the Institute of Special Technologies. A slightest misstep or failure at school—and the students’ loved ones pay a price. Governed by fear and coercion, Sasha will learn the meaning of the phrase “In the beginning was the word…”

VITA NOSTRA is a thrilling journey into the deepest mysteries of existence, a dizzying adventure, an opening into a world that no one has ever described, a world that frightens and attracts the readers of the novel.

The novel combines the seemingly incongruous aspects—spectacular adventures and philosophical depth, incredible transformations and psychological accuracy, complexity of ethical issues and mundane details of urban life.

Парень после аварии начинает играть в только появившуюся игру в виртуальной реальности. Что-то среднее между литрпг и чистым экшен без циферок. Для любителей олдскул — вам может не понравиться — стандартной раскачки и характеристик нет.

Парень после аварии начинает играть в только появившуюся игру в виртуальной реальности. Что-то среднее между литрпг и чистым экшен без циферок. Для любителей олдскул — вам может не понравиться — стандартной раскачки и характеристик нет.

Є ділянка на небі — між двох знаків зодіаку, цих стрілок небесного годинника — Стрільця і Скорпіона, — яка має назву Via Combusta, що перекладається з латини як «випалений шлях». Люди, народжені цієї пори, називаються змієносцями й володіють унікальними здібностями. От і хлопець на прізвище Радний, що на санскриті означає «коштовність», не усвідомлюючи цього, простує своїм випаленим шляхом, який нещадна доля щедро вимостила гострим камінням, бездонними прірвами й непролазними хащами. І гадки хлопець не має, що він — драбина, здатна відкрити людству вихід у незнані світи. От тільки коли відчиняться небесні двері, що чигає за ними на самого Радного — нове життя чи невідворотна смерть?..

East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct — and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.

In this sequel to The Loch and prequel to the upcoming MEG 5: Nightstalkers, New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten offers readers a crossover novel that combines characters from two of his most popular series.

On a volé Charlie Johns. Qui ? Le peuple de Ledom, un monde libre, sans contrainte, sans guerre, sans peur. Un monde sans reproches dont tous les habitants sont bisexués, à la fois mâle et femelle. Bref, le paradis pour Charlie, Homo Sapiens du XXeme siècle ! Jusqu'au jour où il découvre ou il est. Pourquoi il y est. Comment il y est arrivé et ce que sont exactement « ceux-celles » qu'il désigne du nom de vénus plus X.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy transports readers to a world of magic and political unrest — where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price...

The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before — both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes. In desperate need of answers, Simon Wolfgard, a shape-shifter leader among the Others, has no choice but to enlist blood prophet Meg Corbyn's help, regardless of the risks she faces by aiding him.

Meg is still deep in the throes of her addiction to the euphoria she feels when she cuts and speaks prophecy. She knows each slice of her blade tempts death. But Others and humans alike need answers, and her visions may be Simon's only hope of ending the conflict.

For the shadows of war are deepening across the Atlantik, and the prejudice of a fanatic faction is threatening to bring the battle right to Meg and Simon's doorstep..

Traquée par les Syndics, la flotte de l’Alliance poursuit son repli à travers l’espace ennemi. Le capitaine « Black Jack » Geary tente désespérément de la ramener au bercail avec son trophée, la clef de l’hypernet du Syndic, qui est aussi celle de la victoire…

Jamais Geary n’avait pris décision aussi risquée, au point que ses officiers s’interrogent sur sa santé mentale : retourner dans le système de Lakota, où ses vaisseaux ont failli connaître la destruction.

Mais tandis qu’il s’efforce de garder une longueur d’avance sur l’ennemi, il lui faut encore affronter une conspiration au sein même de sa flotte, dont les instigateurs restent dans l’ombre… Alors que le rideau se lève sur la menace effroyable qu’une civilisation extraterrestre inconnue fait peser sur l’humanité.

Que les vivantes étoiles lui viennent en aide !

Mission accomplie. « Black Jack » Geary a rèussi l’impossible : ramener la flotte perdue chez elle après avoir infligé à l’ennemi une succession de défaites. C’est en héros qu’il est revenu.

Un héros dont le Sénat de l’Alliance se méfie. Son objectif ne sera-t-il pas de s’emparer du pouvoir ? Que faire de lui ? Geary, pour sa part, estime les conditions réunies pour mettre un terme à la guerre qui ravage l’humanité depuis un siècle ; et il ya urgence car aux frontières des mondes syndiqués guette une menace inconnue.

Si les moyens lui en sont accordés, c’est donc un retour décisif au coeur du territoire ennemi qui l’attend, ainsi, peut-être, qu’une première confrontation directe avec les mystérieux aliens.

Victorieux clôt le cycle de « La flotte perdue ». La romance contrariée de son héros y trouvera-t-elle aussi son compte ?

The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan’s Voyage of the Basilisk…

Devoted readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard the Royal Survey Ship *Basilisk,* but the true story of that illuminating, harrowing, and scandalous journey has never been revealed—until now.

Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Isabella embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world to study all manner of dragons in every place they might be found. From feathered serpents sunning themselves in the ruins of a fallen civilization to the mighty sea serpents of the tropics, these creatures are a source of both endless fascination and frequent peril. Accompanying her is not only her young son, Jake, but a chivalrous foreign archaeologist whose interests converge with Isabella’s in ways both professional and personal.Science is, of course, the primary objective of the voyage, but Isabella’s life is rarely so simple. She must cope with storms, shipwrecks, intrigue, and warfare, even as she makes a discovery that offers a revolutionary new insight into the ancient history of dragons.

Review

This, the second of Isabella’s retrospective memoirs, is as uncompromisingly honest and forthright as the first, narrated in Brennan’s usual crisp, vivid style, with a heroine at once admirable, formidable, and captivating. Reader, lose no time in making Isabella’s acquaintance.

(Kirkus Reviews, starred review on The Topic of Serpents)

Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal that his research station is receiving from space is not random. Whatever it is, it’s real.

And it’s headed straight for Earth.

He’ll do anything to be the first man to go out to confront this enigma. Even lose the only woman he’s ever really loved.

And maybe start a world war.

Peter Conroy had been born in deep space and the starship was the only home he knew. It was a good reason why he must fight for this—

Это фанфики. Не претендую, не имею, не привлекалась.

THEIR GOAL – THE MOON THEIR MISSION – DEATH. From the rocket base at Peenemunde the Nazis fired the deadliest and most accurate weapon the world had ever seen – the intercontinental V2. But even as the V2 clawed the heart out of London, German High Command was working on the ultimate deterrent – Hitler’s last manic bid to change the course of the war.

MI6 agent Jan Memling is one shot ahead of the Gestapo, but he must break out. He must convince a sceptical Britain of the Reich’s threat before the mailed fist reaches beyond the Earth to trespass in heaven and launch death from the stars… VENGEANCE 10 is a searing moonshot of a thriller by high-velocity author Joe Poyer, ranging from the sun-blasted lunar plains to the power-crazed bunkers of the Nazi elite.

‘Mr Poyer is very, very good.’

ALISTAIR MACLEAN

Весь мир — театр, а вампиры в нем режиссеры. Москва, Прага, Париж, Нью-Йорк — лишь часть театральных подмостков, на которых разворачиваются современные драмы. С первых же дней юная вампирша Жанна Бессонова оказывается в главных ролях. Скандальная дебютантка, наследница миллионера, беглая преступница, родная внучка вампирского старейшины, большая любовь таинственного Гончего — к ней приковано внимание всего Клуба бессмертных. Жанне предстоит узнать, как опасны кровные узы, как обманчивы близкие друзья и как ошеломительны вековые тайны. Справится ли со всем этим хрупкая девушка? Кажется, у нее просто нет выбора, ведь спектакль уже начался, а вечность не дает второго шанса… Однако, когда последняя надежда на спасение будет утрачена, любовь снова спасет мир. Ведь любви покорны даже двухсотлетние вампиры с темным прошлым.

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Вампир высшего класса

Die gegen Menzoberranzan geeinten Kräfte beginnen, Gestalt anzunehmen, und die Gefahr für die Zivilisation der Drow ist schrecklicher als bisher gedacht. Der Weg zu Lolths Geheimnissen führt von den undurchdringlichen Schatten des Unterreichs zu den entlegenen Winkeln der unwirtlichen Obenveit und ist ebenso unvorhersehbar wie tödlich.

Zusammen mit zwei Drow, die die letzten Überlebenden Ched Nasads sein könnten, haben die Forscher aus Menzoberranzan viel erfahren, doch für jede Antwort, die sie erhalten, stellen sich tausend neue Fragen. Sie müssen in der Hoffnung, er könne ihnen die Göttin schneller finden helfen, einen rivalisierenden Priester aufsuchen, doch kann je ein Dunkelelf einem anderen trauen?

Der dritte Roman einer epischen sechsteiligen Reihe, die der fruchtbaren Phantasie R. A. Salvatores und einer handverlesenen Gruppe der talentiertesten Autoren des Genres entspringt. Bringen Sie mit ihnen zusammen Licht in die schwärzesten Winkel der Vergessenen Reiche, um so die Schatten dort nur noch tiefer zu machen.

The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be—and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten—Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade—who now leads humanity’s fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark source of his former master’s power. Denounced as a traitor, hunted by forces loyal to the Emperor, Sten must risk everything to annihilate the Empire he vowed to protect.

Voici la suite d’Éveil, qui racontait l’émergence d’une Intelligence Artificielle sur le réseau Internet. Caitlin, jeune aveugle de naissance, a recouvré la vision grâce à une prothèse informatique et joue un rôle essentiel dans cette émergence puis dans l’éducation de cette conscience non humaine, Webmind.

L’accès progressif de Webmind à la totalité des ressources d’Internet lui confère des pouvoirs surhumains, presque divins. Qui ne manquent pas d’inquiéter le gouvernement américain. Peut-on laisser survivre une entité qui dispose de connaissances et de pouvoirs formidables alors qu’on ignore tout de ses intentions ?

Caitlin, qui lui fait une confiance absolue, parviendra-t-elle à la sauver ?

Éveil puis Veille renouvellent complètement le thème de l’Intelligence Artificielle. Humain contre machine. Humain et machine. Sommes-nous au bord de la Singularité prédite par Vernor Vinge, l’auteur de Rainbows End ?

Ces romans témoignent aussi d’un sens de l’humain rare dans la science-fiction et propre à Robert J. Sawyer.

Éveil a été retenu parmi les cinq derniers titres en lice pour le prix Hugo 2010.

From the internationally bestselling author of Ender’s Game comes the riveting finale to the story of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts.

In Pathfinder, Rigg joined forces with another teen with special talents on a quest to find Rigg’s sister and discover the true depth and significance of their powers. Then Rigg’s story continued in Ruins as he was tasked to decipher the paths of the past before the arrival of a destructive force with deadly intentions. Now, in Visitors, Rigg’s journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all.

The Pygmalion myth recast by one of America’s boldest and most bewitching storytellers.

Anna Graham has one ambition — to be a great actress. The only problem is, she can’t stop being herself. She is proud, stubborn, and moody; according to her acting teacher, she needs to be as bland and pliable as warm wax. Even when she rents a Good Fairy Queen Costume — complete with crown, wand, and wig — and walks the streets of New York City until three thirty in the morning, she fails to be anyone but Anna Graham. “Help,” she thinks, smoking a cigarette in a deserted subway station. “Help!” screams a man at the other end of the platform as two attackers pull him onto the train tracks. Red pepper spray in hand, the Good Fairy Queen rushes to Damon Wetly’s rescue — and Anna’s wish comes true, in the oddest way imaginable.

Locked inside a cage in Wetly’s cloud-filled country home, Anna learns to do everything — walk, talk, think, eat, breathe — differently. When she finally escapes, she becomes a star — as Wetly promised she would. The new-and-improved Anna attracts plenty of admirers — including a paraplegic soap opera celebrity; the world’s most famous supermodel; and a handsome cellist, Weight Watchers counselor, etiquette expert, and exotic dancer named Nathaniel Powers — but she only has eyes for her former captor, the creator of miniature clouds and major actresses. Just when it seems that her fairy tale ending is right around the corner, Anna’s whole world threatens to evaporate into thin air.

Fearless and fascinating, Vapor holds a funhouse mirror up to some of our deepest and most alluring notions about fame, identity, and desire.

REBEL NO MORE

Alex Verus is a mage who can see the future, but even he didn't see this day coming. He's agreed to join the Keepers, the magical police force, to protect his friends from his old master, the Dark Mage Richard Drakh.

Going legit was always going to be difficult for an outcast like Alex, and there are some Keepers who aren't keen to see an ex-Dark mage succeed. Especially when Dark mages are making a play for a seat on the council, for the first time in history.

Alex finally has the law on his side — but trapped between Light and Dark politics, investigating a seedy underworld with ties to the highest of powers, will a badge be enough to save him? 

„Varnų puota“ —tai ketvirtoji Georgeo R. R. Martino istorinės fantastinės epopėjos „Ledo ir ugnies giesmė“ knyga.

Joje kuriama šiurpi karo nuniokoto krašto atmosfera, o veiksmas daugiausia sukasi apie Karaliaus Uostą. Ten karaliumi paskirtas devynmetis berniukas Tome- nas, o visą valdžią užgrobusi jo motina —karalienė regentė Sersėja. Įtikėjusi kitados jai burtininkės išsakyta pranašyste, jog valdžią iš jos paverš kita karalienė, jauna ir graži, Sersėja nusprendžia pražudyti Tomeno žmoną, karalienę Mardžerę iš Tairelių giminės.

Ir pačiame Vesterose, kur maitlesiais varnais karas pavertė daugybę žmonių, rezgami nauji sąmokslai, sudaromos naujos pavojingos sąjungos ir visi keršija visiems, ypač negailestinga keistoji Akmenširdė —pilkoji moteris, vadovaujanti bastūnams. Tačiau šioje varnų puotoje svečių daug, tik nežinia, kam iš jų pasiseks išlikti gyvam.

Пейринг: Новый Женский Персонаж/Сириус Блэк Гарри Поттер Северус Снейп Гермиона Грейнджер Рон Уизли Панси Паркинсон

Рейтинг: PG-13

Жанр: Angst/Drama/Romance/Adventure

События: Седьмой курс, Времена Мародеров, Путешествие во времени, Чистая романтика, Фик об оригинальных героях, Сокрытие магических способностей, Много оригинальных героев

Саммари: Каково вдруг обнаружить, что мир совсем не такой, каким виделся вначале? И что ты тоже отличаешься от той, к которой привыкли окружающие. Что это? Сказка? Сон? Нет, мрачная реальность…

Коментарий автора: Прошу не относиться к данному фику серьезно, это просто мой бред:) POV со второй части. Действия, происходящие в прошлом, начинаются далеко не сразу!

В начале XXI века эксцентричный миллиардер Гарри Смит, при участии русского ученого Сергея Абрамяна, и с помощью инопланетных технологий, создают первый межзвездный корабль, предназначенный для эвакуации с Земли, в случае неминуемой ядерной войны, лучших представителей человечества…

Трилогия «Метаморфозы» в одном томе.

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Vita nostra (роман), стр. 5-358

Цифровой, или Brevis est (роман), стр. 359-628

Мигрант, или Brevi finietur (роман), стр. 629-893

Vol’jin lautet der Name des tapferen Anführers des Dunkelspeerstammes. Seine Stärke und seine List sind selbst unter den mächtigsten Champions der Horde beispiellos. Auf dem legendären Kontinent Pandaria steht der Häuptling der Trolle nun aber seiner bislang größten Herausforderung gegenüber. Eine Prüfung, die seine Leben völlig neu defi nieren könnte, im Universum von World of Warcraft®.

Die Attentäter Garrosh Höllschreis haben Vol’jin niedergestreckt und ihn zum Sterben zurückgelassen. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne mit dem Trollhäuptling, denn Braumeister Chen Sturmbräu gelingt es, den Schwerverletzten in einem abgelegenen Bergkloster in Sicherheit zu bringen. Dort muss Vol’jin an der Seite eines mysteriösen Soldaten der Allianz nicht nur um sein Leben kämpfen, sondern auch gegen althergebrachte Vorurteile und Hassgefühle. Doch damit nehmen Vol’jins Probleme erst ihren Anfang, denn schon bald sieht er sich inmitten einer Invasion Pandarias durch die Zandalari – ein geachteter Trollstamm, getrieben von Allmachtsträumen. Sie bieten Vol’jin die Gelegenheit, grenzenlosen Ruhm zu ernten – das Geburtsrecht aller Trolle! Ein verlockendes Angebot, vor allem nach Höllschreis niederträchtigem Verrat. Es liegt nun allein in den Händen des Trollhäuptlings, ob er die Zukunft seines Volkes nachhaltig verändert, oder es zur ewigen Knechtschaft verdammt, in den Schatten der Horde.

Arvin, a mind-mage of growing power sets off on a secret journey to the barony of Sespech, a human realm crawling with yuan-ti, where he encounters Karell, a yuan-ti half-blood who in turn has her serpent’s eyes set on Dmetrio, scion of the powerful Extaminos family who is said to hold the fabled Circled Serpent, an ancient artifact of such immense power, it could well destroy the world.

Viper’s Kiss is the second title in a new trilogy exploring the political intrigues of the yuan-ti race, the details of which have been little explored in previous Forgotten Realms products.

At a small research station in the most remote place on earth, a handful of scientists are about to make a terrible discovery. Underneath miles of ice, life exists. Mankind has never been exposed to it before, and the results are immediate and deadly. In the midst of the Antarctic winter, nobody can get in, and nobody can get out. Will anyone survive until the weather improves enough for the first flight to arrive? Will the danger escape and make its way back to society? One thing is certain—if Professor Francis Hamlin had his way, he never would have come to this forsaken place.

On his birthday Mark is going to receive a gift that will change his life for ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ryjIupW_j0

Odd coincidences may reflect connections—but not necessarily simple ones!

Although he never met Avram Davidson in person, Michael Swanwick has always been a great admirer of his work. When the estate asked him to complete one of Avram’s unfinished stories, he was happy to do so. “Davidson was one of the great prose stylists of science fiction, and it was no easy task emulating him. As I wrote, I could feel Avram’s ghost standing grumpily at my shoulder, making disapproving noises whenever I got it wrong. He had left clues throughout the text, however, pointing the way to the story’s resolution, and I am confident not only that ‘Vergil Magus: King Without Country’ ends the way he intended, but that I have correctly identified and solved each and every clue he planted. Except one. I never did figure out the onions.” Grania Davis, Avram Davidson’s former wife and literary executor, recently finished one of Mr. Davidson’s novellas—The Boss in the Wall (Tachyon Press, May 1998).

In desperate circumstances, you must use the most powerful tools at your disposal—but that can be a scary thing.

« Je m’appelle Turk Findley et je vais vous raconter ce que j’ai vécu longtemps après la disparition de tout ce que j’aimais ou connaissais. »

C’est par ces mots que commence le premier des dix carnets lignés trouvés dans le cartable d’Orrin Mather, jeune vagabond interné dans un centre d’accueil de Houston. Ces carnets racontent l’histoire de ce Turk Findley qui, en passant un arc temporel des Hypothétiques, a fait un bond de dix mille ans dans le futur et s’est retrouvé sur Vox, un archipel artificiel sur le point de franchir l’arc pourtant fermé qui fait communiquer Equatoria avec le berceau de l’humanité — une Terre à l’agonie devenue toxique et inhabitable.

Pour Sandra Cole, le médecin en charge d’Orrin, ce récit est un roman de science-fiction plein d’élucubrations sur les Hypothétiques, mais certains faits contredisent cette confortable théorie, car Orrin connaît bien un monsieur Findley, un trafiquant très dangereux…

Suite directe d’Axis, Vortex clôt avec une rare audace la trilogie entamée avec Spin, récompensé par le prix Hugo et le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

« Je m’appelle Turk Findley et je vais vous raconter ce que j’ai vécu longtemps après la disparition de tout ce que j’aimais ou connaissais. »

C’est par ces mots que commence le premier des dix carnets lignés trouvés dans le cartable d’Orrin Mather, jeune vagabond interné dans un centre d’accueil de Houston. Ces carnets racontent l’histoire de ce Turk Findley qui, en passant un arc temporel des Hypothétiques, a fait un bond de dix mille ans dans le futur et s’est retrouvé sur Vox, un archipel artificiel sur le point de franchir l’arc pourtant fermé qui fait communiquer Equatoria avec le berceau de l’humanité — une Terre à l’agonie devenue toxique et inhabitable.

Pour Sandra Cole, le médecin en charge d’Orrin, ce récit est un roman de science-fiction plein d’élucubrations sur les Hypothétiques, mais certains faits contredisent cette confortable théorie, car Orrin connaît bien un monsieur Findley, un trafiquant très dangereux…

Suite directe d’Axis, Vortex clôt avec une rare audace la trilogie entamée avec Spin, récompensé par le prix Hugo et le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance… and the men and women who fought to create it.

Earth is no longer the center of the universe.

After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space also mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist.

When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a former enlisted Marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers—or die trying.

As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a “Red” from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don’t succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires…

The official novelization of the blockbuster movie, written and directed by visionary Luc Besson (Lucy, The Fifth Element).

In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other.

There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Potrebbe capitare di riuscire a vedere quale sarà il futuro di ognuno di noi, ma sarà veramente utile?

Quando Karen White era adolescente faceva sogni molto particolari: vedeva altri mondi, altri paesaggi, tutte cose aliene, eppure tutte stranamente familiari. E negli angoli oscuri, di tanto in tanto, vedeva apparire la disgustosa immagine dell’Uomo Grigio, che la minacciava dai recessi della sua consapevolezza. Col passare degli anni Karen White ha imparato a padroneggiare la propria psiche, a eliminare quei sogni e anche il ricordo di essi. Ma viene il giorno in cui non può tenere tutto così profondamente nascosto, viene il giorno in cui occorre riportare a galla i ricordi, le paure, ma anche le gioie. Perchè l’Uomo Grigio è tornato a visitare i sogni di suo figlio… e non c’è più tempo per nascondersi dietro le proprie angosce.

An illustrated transcript of a talk presented at the First Biennial Conference on Induced Humanoid Subspecies

Peter Watts, Ph.D.

FizerPharm

Evoconsumables

Приключение русского и его интернациональной команды изгоев, раскрывших зловещий секрет благополучия Америки! Узнав о сговоре Штатов и пришельца с иного материального плана, герои грудью бросаются на внеземную амбразуру, чтобы остановить инопланетную экспансию, сверхурочные после жизни и обещанную переработку планеты. Липкие заговоры, нудящие пришельцы и злободневное объяснение всему творящемуся в мире — в комплекте! Ну кто сказал, что нельзя давать взбучку внеземным формам жизни и разрушать стереотипы про русских под чоканье и хруст французской булки?

Soldier. Mercenary. Vigilante. Hero.

All Jett Thorne wanted to do was survive the end of the world. Placed in hibernation for over three centuries, he awakens to a country he no longer knows in Neo York, a city that thrives on corruption and violence. A chance encounter with a dying vigilante gives him the drive to do something about the depravity around him. Adopting the mantle of Vigil, he will wage a one-man war on the criminals who prey on the citizens of Neo York.

But war is not without repercussions, and Jett finds himself in need of allies when the criminal underworld pushes back. He encounters the enigmatic man named Incognito and Ronnie Banks, an ambitious detective with a personal agenda. Jett will have to decide whether or not to trust them with his secrets, and he will have to choose quickly. Because enemies high and low conspire against him, and every one of them wants to be the first to kill Neo York's new hero.

Vigil is born of superhero tropes, mixing the tech of Iron Man with the stealth and cunning of Batman. Fans of graphic novels and associated movies will feel right at home. Be sure to grab your copy today!

“A surprising page-turner… Compelling. Highly recommended.”

—Library Journal (starred review), Debut of the Month

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story… A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences a deadly incident in deep space and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her dead. Miraculously—and mysteriously—she survived, but with little memory of what happened. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone changed her, and as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected and even, at times, deep rage toward her family and colleagues. There are periods of time she can’t account for, too, and she begins waking up in increasingly strange and worrisome locations, like restricted areas of NASA. Suddenly she’s questioning everything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and now, what’s happening to her back on Earth.

Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.

Существует много историй про то, как Герои побеждают злого-презлого стр-р-рашного Повелителя Тьмы. Вот только Повелителями Тьмы не рождаются, ими становятся... КНИГА ЗАКОНЧЕНА.