Научная Фантастика
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Autor bestsellerowego Problemu trzech ciał. Do Ziemi dociera zabójcze radioaktywne promieniowanie odległej o osiem lat świetlnych supernowej. Naukowcy z przerażeniem odkrywają, że w jego wyniku wszyscy ludzie w wieku powyżej trzynastu lat umrą w ciągu roku. Rozpoczyna się gorączkowy wyścig z czasem. Dorośli muszą jak najszybciej przekazać dzieciom całą wiedzę o zarządzaniu światem, żeby ludzka cywilizacja mogła przetrwać. Dzieci, które bez przerwy myślą tylko o zabawie, nie przejmują się...
| Автор | Cixin Liu |
Głębia powraca! Wieści o zakazanym ładunku «Wstążki» docierają do najwyższych władz Zjednoczenia. Machina Triumwiratu idzie w ruch. Skokowiec kapitana Myrtona Grunwalda staje się najbardziej poszukiwaną jednostką we Wszechświecie. Ale jego załoga ma znacznie poważniejsze problemy niż ścigająca ją Flota Kooperacyjna. Nadchodzi bowiem coś, co raz na zawsze odmieni Wypaloną Galaktykę… i to na dobre. Bohaterowie Podlewskiego powracają w drugiej odsłonie wyśmienitej space opery, odzwierciedlającej z...
| Автор | Marcin Podlewski |
Otwarto ponad tysiąc wrót do układów słonecznych rozsianych w galaktyce, ale w miarę jak ludzkość buduje swe międzygwiezdne imperium na ruinach obcych, pojawia się coraz więcej zagrożeń. James S.A. Corey – pseudonim literacki, pod którym wspólnie publikują Daniel Abraham i Ty Franck, amerykańscy pisarze science fiction i fantasy. Wspólnie stworzyli cykl Expanse, na który składają się następujące tomy: Przebudzenie Lewiatana, Wojna Kalibana, Wrota Abaddona, Gorączka Ciboli, Gry Nemezis, Prochy...
| Автор | James S.A. Corey |
Oszałamiający rozmachem chiński bestseller, który stał się wydawniczym fenomenem w USA. NAGRODA HUGO DLA NAJLEPSZEJ POWIEŚCI 2015 R. „Imponująca rozmachem ucieczka od rzeczywistości. Dała mi odpowiednią perspektywę w zmaganiach z Kongresem – nie musiałem się przejmować, wszak kosmici mieli najechać Ziemię! – Barack Obama , były prezydent USA Pierwszy tom trylogii „Wspomnienie o przeszłości Ziemi”, największego w ostatnich latach wydarzenia w światowej fantastyce naukowej,...
| Автор | Cixin Liu |
An Earth ravaged by an environmental catastrophe now faces its greatest threat—from space. And only the woman known as H124 can harness a lost technology to save it from absolute destruction. The Skyfire Saga As a deadly asteroid careens towards Earth, H124 and her Badlander companions race against time to piece together the ancient ruins of a spaceship that can intercept it. But this is not their only mission. In case their plan is not successful, they must warn the residents of Delta City...
| Автор | Alice Henderson |
In the current year of 2251, the world has been dominated by a new race of beings: Buranians. Genetically altered not to feel, they ruthlessly conquered the world and united it under one empire. The Elite is a resistance force that refuses to adhere to the new world laws and fights for their freedom. Neera is a Buranian living peacefully. That peace is shattered however, when The Elite launch an attack that kills the only person to ever care for her. Broken by the act, she declares revenge on...
| Автор | Bethany Bliss |
In this testimony the reader is invited to join my thoughts to return to an evening when pain, suffering, and death have enveloped men and women in distress. At a time when some humans, under the blue of the sky, no longer knew on which foot to dance. Returning not because we liked this evening, enjoyed it well. Returning not because the reader will appreciate it, but because certain experiences become a part of us, influence our character as a person, and contribute to the evolution of our...
| Автор | Getchens Mathurin |
A thousand years ago the strange and mysterious Cataclysm raced through our area of space, devastating the Solar System and nearly extinguishing all life on Earth. In a desperate attempt to survive extinction, an enormous colony-spawning ship made of ice was sent to the stars, while the rest of humanity either dug deep below the surface of the Earth or died in the Cataclysm.<br><br>Two hundred years after the disaster, humanity crawled out from underground and started rebuilding. A...
| Автор | Brian Gonzalez |
One hundred mental patients are brutally massacred in the frigid cold of a Russian forest as they wait for a mysterious light coming down from the night sky. Their deaths are never spoken of again.<br><br>More than three decades later, directors at mental hospitals in California are stunned when 100 patients—comatose for years—suddenly "wake up" and speak of a person called "The Commander" who will lead them to a place where...
| Автор | Joaquin De Torres |
In the not-so-distant future, a biological crisis of epic proportions threatens the world. Genetically manufactured creatures, named airwars, attack and kill at random. Despite having captured and sequestered the airwar's creator, a hastily formed world government appears more effective in consolidating power than managing the crisis.<br><br>Hope emerges when a navy admiral discovers there are individuals born genetically immune to the deadly stings of the airwars. As the...
| Автор | Doc Lucky Meisenheimer |
An action/comedy with astronauts taking off on one journey which turned into many adventures throughout the galaxies<br><br>This is the first book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse – even to the...
| Автор | Darryl Dean Wright |
On the planet Bear Ridge, Thomas Jefferson Shepherd is King, fighting to bring his long-lost colony world to high-tech standards, and claim a place among the Federation of Planets. But Bear Ridge has a feudal society, and TJ must overcome political treachery, revolt, and assassination in his attempt to move his world forward. To rule, TJ had to survive the Trek: climbing and crossing two deadly mountain ridges, and locating and befriending the Webbines, the indigenous intelligent species. Now...
| Автор | James B. Johnson |
Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today's science fiction. Enthralling and amusing, it's written with affection and wit. This is no dry, modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah celebration of the «Good Old Days.» Here is a candid and astute reader's response to a magazine that, by today's standards, was often comically bad–but was also immensely important in its time, and improved, like the Little...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth Culture's Primary Heuristic: «Wherever possible, find the weak spot in an alien civilization and interfere as much as possible for the benefit of humanity.» It's the Human's Burden! But everything comes unstuck, made worse by his irritating Machiavellian AI. And that's...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
The dark force known as Shadow had been defeated, but its world-spanning web of power had survived. This incredible magical weapon was now held not by a prince or wizard, but by Pellinore Brown, a marketing consultant from Germantown, Maryland. Pel Brown wished no one ill; he merely wanted his family back. But the Galactic Empire that had seen Shadow as a threat saw him as Shadow's heir, a menace to be destroyed as Shadow had been. And when the awesome magical might of Shadow's legacy...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
The basics of a good interview may be summed up in the following sentence: find someone interesting and articulate, ask just enough questions to get them talking, then point the microphone, shut up, and, oh, by the way, make sure your equipment works. So says Darrell Schweitzer, the editor of this fascinating volume of contemporary interviews with seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis,...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
Hezbollah has obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to Hezbollah, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back to a turning point in European history. Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel and prevent the nullification of all Western civilization. Their mission can be accomplished, if at all, only...
| Автор | Edward M. Lerner |
On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams uses her empathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous acts. Very few escape the telepathic web she weaves around them . . . until now. When Jaguar takes on a home planet assignment, investigating a psychiatrist on trial for abuse of a little boy, she finds a killer unlike any she’s faced before. Dr. Senci’s psi skills are a match for her own, and unless she consents to do as he wants, he’ll use them to kill everyone she loves....
| Автор | B. A. Chepaitis |
The multi-generation saga of the founding of the legendary House of Zeor, that began with Rimon Farris's story in First Channel (Sime~Gen, Book Three), continued with the story of Rimon's son, Zeth Farris, Channel's Destiny (Sime~Gen, Book Five), now culminates with the story of Zeth's son, Del Rimon Farris, in The Farris Channel (Sime~Gen, Book Twelve). The Sime~Gen Series is the story of the House of Zeor, an institution that spans thousands of years and shapes human future...
| Автор | Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
It is early December 1898. New South Wales is about to send its first contingent of soldiers to South Africa to join British forces in the empire's fight against the Boers. It will be accompanied by the New South Wales Field Ambulance. Young Sydney doctor Mark Dunkley, a new and relatively junior officer in the Ambulance receives notice to join his unit for service abroad. We follow him during the excitement prior to embarking for the sea voyage, the development of his first romance, the...
| Автор | Michael Tyquin |
A handful of ordinary Americans – housewives, lawyers, interior decorators, and the like – found themselves caught up in a transdimensional conflict, and transported from their homes to realms where magic worked, to desert planets and rebel worlds, to places straight out of science fiction and fantasy. But these were not the harmless, happy-ending lands of film and fable. The sweat and blood was real, and the horrors they faced genuinely dangerous. One world was a world of magic, ruled by a dark...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the «New Wave.» This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and development of these important magazines–and the...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
It's a crooked road to world peace…but it works. Warfare between nations has been banned. Taking its place are the Corporate Wars – full-scale battles between mercenary armies hired by large corporations, ostensibly to settle trade disputes.<P> But the wars are also free entertainment for the masses. In a world where most jobs have been taken over by automation, free tranquilizers have to be issued to the vast lower class to keep them subdued. The Corporate Wars offer what little...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in a brooding atmosphere of great wealth, guarded isolation from the rest of mankind, and black clouds of suspicion. She became uneasy at Miss Marlow's apparent lack of interest in photographs of her ocelots. She was worried when her fiance telephoned her, imploring her to leave at once. She was...
| Автор | Rufus King |