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The men and women of an underground world hold the key to Earth's survival. The beastly Martians have decided to wage an «old-fashioned» ground war with only one objective in mind – to wipe humanity from the planet. But then Evan Paige receives an unbelievable radio message from the renowned scientist Dr. Aronson – a message from the center of the Earth, telling of a super-scientific race of Albinos who hold the key to save all mankind! <P> A thrilling science fiction novel from the...
| Автор | Eando Binder |
Philadelphia, some time in the 21st century–Casper Beech is a corporate drone, a man beaten down by debt, a wage-slave to the Consortium that dominates the American economy. One day his boss sends him in for neural imprinting – to have new job skills implanted directly in his brain, because it's faster and cheaper than training him by older methods. But a computer glitch loads the wrong file, and Casper is programmed with something that has nothing to do with his job. Instead of learning a...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams and Alex Dzarny use their telepathic gifts to make the worst criminals face the fears that drive their heinous crimes. But now they face a criminal unlike any they'd met before. Springer Todd, rock star, turned a gun on his audience, and won't say why. When Alex learns who Springer really is, he realizes he's caught in a tangled web of deceit he can't even tell Jaguar about. And she must figure out how to save both Alex and Springer...
| Автор | B.A. Chepaitis |
On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams and Alex Dzarny use their telepathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous crimes. They’ve been a great team, but now, Alex has left the Planetoid and Jaguar, grief stricken over the death of his son. Jaguar, left on her own, goes off to the home planet with her friend Rachel to watch some Formula One racing in Montreal. There, a lost dog leads her to some of the fastest women on the planet, and when one of them is killed, she’s...
| Автор | B.A. Chepaitis |
Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced «Hoke») is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short stories, particularly the series featuring Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a small-town physician who unraveled seemingly impossible «problems» in 1920s New England. His other popular series characters included British...
| Автор | Edward D. Hoch |
"In our opinion the best thing that Rufus King has ever written." – The New York Times<P> Miriam Lake found herself in an alarming situation the night she came aboard the luxury yacht <i>Donna Louise<\i> for an interview with a «Mrs. Murchison» who was seeking a governess for a backwards child. First, Mrs. Murchison turned out to be a man – Donald Murchison. Then, Miriam learned that everyone on board believed her to be Murchison's long-lost niece and a victim of...
| Автор | Rufus King |
Den Milnan, a Tecton Donor, accompanies his cousin, channel Rital Madz, to an experimental Sime Center in the town of Clear Springs, deep in hostile Gen Territory. Rital plans to offer selyn technology to the Gens in trade for selyn, the energy that only Gens can produce.<P> Selyn is the fuel that could power a new revival of civilization, as fossil fuels did for humanity of the 19th and 20th centuries.<P> Den Milnan dreams of turning his horse-and-buggy existence into a world of...
| Автор | Jean Lorrah |
THE NOVEL DEEMED TOO DANGEROUS TO BE PUBLISHED IN AMERICA–IS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN AMERICA!<P> In this thought-provoking work set in the near future and first published in 2007, Spinrad (Raising Hell) traces the course of his protagonist’s life from naive youth to veteran soldier… At its core, the book is about a young man struggling with his faith and the politics that are rightly or wrongly attached to that faith, and his choices feel plausible even to readers who would make very...
| Автор | Norman Spinrad |
When the first expedition from Earth arrived on Mars, they were greeted with open arms. Not only had the Martians long ago learned all they wanted about Earth – they wanted nothing to do with us. To quote their welcoming committee: «You Earth people don't know your own history. You have always been incorrigible. When Mars was younger, we drove you back to your own planet, whereupon you tumbled into savagery for a gratifyingly long time. The really intelligent Martians then emigrated to the...
| Автор | Wallace West |
Melissa Tyler, who had just inherited incredible wealth, came to the Harden Detective Agency claiming she needed protection from crank letters and any possible trouble involving her family. This was a vast understatement of the situation as Margot, the poised young woman from Harden's, learned when she returned with Melissa to a languorous South Carolina town. <P> In a town dominated by conservative old families, Mrs. Tyler's husband was unique. A former carnival knife thrower...
| Автор | Rufus King |
Pamela Sargent's latest collection assembles 10 of her recent stories, including «Puss in D.C.,» «Strawberry Birdies,» and «A Smaller Government,» showing why she's one of the most popular authors currently writing science fiction today.<P> From the introduction by Eleanor Arnason: «Sargent has a quality usually associated with hard SF: a certain kind of intellectual rigor. With her, it carries through all of her work. She thinks things through. … Notice, when you read this...
| Автор | Pamela Sargent |
In this masterpiece of fear and suspense, Rufus King tackles the dangerous subjects of love and atomic energy. The resulting romantic riddle is a brain-teaser guaranteed to stymie detective fans until the very last page.<P> Ramier Bellamy kisses Drusilla Duveen good-bye and prepares to make himself invisible. But something goes wrong with his experiment – and when the machine he invented started to hum, it is Drusilla, not he, who vanishes!<P> That's just the first in a series...
| Автор | Rufus King |
Imprisoned to keep her safe… In a world of five men to one woman, chaos is just the beginning. At a young age, Piper and her sister Ruby are placed into the prison system designed to keep the female population safe. With the knowledge Piper obtains about the program that women are forced into at age eighteen, Piper retaliates against the guards and finds herself locked in maximum security. It’s been seven years since she’s seen her younger sister. Her determination to rescue Ruby from the...
| Автор | Allison West |
<strong>Will he end the slave trade once and for all?</strong> <br> <br> Aaron has no choice but to infiltrate the palace, even if it kills him. <br> <br> Forced to align himself with the rebel leader Rhys, Aaron and Lorelei must return to the palace to seek justice and protect the crumbling nation. Will she be loved by all who know of her as the murderess or feared for her deadly sins? <br> <br> Unwilling...
| Автор | Allison West |
The Hunters of Infinity have guarded the Daharian galaxy for ages, but when betrayed, they can become a vicious enemy . . . Jessop, the first woman to join the Hunters, has finally been reunited with those who mean the most to her. In her quest for vengeance, she has left many embittered and betrayed, chief among them Kohl O’Hanlon, the Hunter who once loved her. Now, as the feared Falco Bane leads his forces into the Hunters’ territory, Kohl attempts to retaliate, flooding their infamous...
| Автор | Ryan Wieser |
The SkyReach Prophecies chronicles the interplanetary adventures of Duncan and Olivia Grey, teenagers who live in HUB space station orbiting Earth in the 21st century. Their parents make a scientific discovery that could create the first interstellar drive, allowing mankind to travel to the stars in the blink of an eye. The interplanetary Mining Guild holds a monopoly on space travel – the Guild will do anything to stop development of the interstellar Drive. Duncan and Olivia travel with their...
| Автор | JEFFREY GREY |
In a domed city on a planet orbiting Barnard's Star, a recently hired maintenance man named Kane has just committed murder.Minutes later, the airlocks on the neighbourhood block are opened and the murderer is asphyxiated along with thirty-one innocent residents.Jax, the lowly dome operator on duty at the time, is accused of mass homicide and faced with a mound of impossible evidence against him.His only ally is Runstom, the rogue police officer charged with transporting him to a secure off-world...
| Автор | Jason LaPier |
Pierwsza powieść nowej serii w konwencji space opera, osadzonych w całkowicie nowym uniwersum, napisana przez laureata nagrody Hugo, autora bestsellerów z listy New York Timesa: Wojna starego człowieka oraz Czerwone koszule. Naszym Wszechświatem rządzi fizyka, więc podróżowanie szybciej niż prędkość światła nie jest możliwe. Tak było, dopóki nie odkryto Nurtu – pozawymiarowego pola, do którego możemy uzyskać dostęp w określonych punktach Czasoprzestrzeni, a ono niesie nas do innych światów,...
| Автор | John Scalzi |
Nigdy nie ma tak dobrze, żeby się wszystko nie rypło. Zmuszony z własnej woli oddać to, co nigdy mu się nie należało, oszukany przez samego siebie, ze złamanym sercem i żebrami, Saszka zwany Chudym musi wziąć się w garść i spróbować odpowiedzieć na pytanie: co się, do ciężkiej Anielki, w ogóle stało?! Bez pieniędzy, bez czasu na złapanie oddechu i bez kolejnej działki synty, nasz bohater, o którego nie prosiliśmy, ale na którego zasługujemy, rusza w zasypany śniegiem NeoSybirsk, aby skrzyknąć...
| Автор | Michał Gołkowski |
Utwory Liu wywołują dreszcz podniecenia badaniem nieznanego i urzekają rozmachem […] Niezwykłe. – „The New Yorker” Liu Cixin to jeden z najważniejszych głosów w światowej literaturze science fiction. Problem trzech ciał jest pierwszą zagraniczną powieścią uhonorowaną Nagrodą Hugo, trylogia „Wspomnienie o przeszłości Ziemi” została przetłumaczona na kilkadziesiąt języków, a twórcy Gry o tron tworzą na jej podstawie serial dla Netflixa. [b]Wędrująca Ziemia[/b] to pierwszy zbiór jego...
| Автор | Лю Цысинь |
Fascynująca powieść science fiction o eksploracji alternatywnych wszechświatów i głębokich otchłani czasu Na planecie Per Ardua krążącej wokół gwiazdy Proxima odkryto artefakty obcych – Włazy, które pozwalają ludziom pokonywać lata świetlne, jakby wkraczali do innego pokoju. Ale ta nowo odkryta łatwość podróżowania w przestrzeni ma konsekwencje.... Gdy ludzkość odkrywa prawdziwą naturę wszechświata, ujawnia się przerażająca prawda. Wszyscy mamy niezliczone przeszłości zbiegające się w tej...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
We are all connected. Our emotions, our memories, our minds are all linked by a thread power known as the Nexus. All life can access this connection, but there are few who realize its existence, and even fewer who can use it to control those around them. Jim Ash is about to become one of the fewer. After a contract goes wrong, Jim plummets through the world, shattering into the dark plains of the Below. He should be dead, should be swallowed by the afterlife told in religious stories and myth,...
| Автор | Dalin Moss |
Надежда на то, что Мурекс, интеллектуальное оружие «мёртвой руки», оставленный погибшими цивилизациями Вселенной полмиллиарда лет назад и подчиненный террористом Куртом Шнайдером, уничтожен, не оправдалась. Он просто исчез в глубинах космоса, отложив новую схватку с человечеством на будущее. Однако передышка, которую получают безопасники Земной федерации, неожиданно прерывается во время экспедиции на Венеру спецгруппы майора Дарислава Волкова. Загадочный объект, найденный там, грозит стать еще...
| Автор | Василий Головачев |
Надежда на то, что Мурекс, интеллектуальное оружие «мертвой руки», оставленный погибшими цивилизациями Вселенной полмиллиарда лет назад и подчиненный террористом Куртом Шнайдером, уничтожен, не оправдалась. Он просто исчез в глубинах космоса, отложив новую схватку с человечеством на будущее. Однако передышка, которую получают безопасники Земной федерации, неожиданно прерывается во время экспедиции на Венеру спецгруппы майора Дарислава Волкова. Загадочный объект, найденный там, грозит стать еще...
| Автор | Василий Головачев |