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The dazzling novel from the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking MARS trilogy follows Galileo on an amazing journey from the dawn of the modern world to a future on the verge of a completely new scientific breakthrough.Late Renaissance Italy still abounds in alchemy and Aristotle, yet it trembles on the brink of the modern world. Galileo's new telescope encapsulates all the contradictions of this emerging reality.Then one night a stranger presents a different kind of telescope for Galileo to...
| Автор | Kim Stanley Robinson |
‘Unforgettable and utterly affecting. You can’t turn the pages fast enough’ Dave EggersJudy Budnitz, author of the Orange Prize shortlisted novel If I Told You Once and the critically acclaimed collection Flying Leap. creates her own brand of stark, dystopian reality in this impressive collection of blisteringly inventive and surreal new stories. Budnitz's first-person narrators are pitch perfect, helping the reader to see from their perspective, no matter how odd it might be. Clever, comic and...
| Автор | Judy Budnitz |
In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent and unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 2001: A Space Odyssey.’Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?’ With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
A discreet advertisement brings a group of apparently disparate individuals together to a bizarre rendezvous – on the ocean floor.The reasons for their selection are unclear: Don, an archaeologist, chronically shy, Gaspar, marine biologist, suffering from terminal directness, middle-aged Pacifica, and Melanie, whose normal exterior masks a strange genetic inheritance, seem, on the face of it, to have little in common – except their feeling that they are part of a greater plan … a feeling that...
| Автор | Piers Anthony |
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable ever again to breathe Earth's air … And they are still pawns.They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek’s adin: surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable ever again to...
| Автор | Kevin J. Anderson |
The Old Man and the Wasteland is the first book in Nick Cole’s The Wasteland Saga.Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, The Old Man and the Wasteland is a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American Southwest.Forty years after the destruction of civilization…Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s classic ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a...
| Автор | Nick Cole |
It's hot in Washington. No sign of rain. The world's climates are changing, catastrophe beckons, but no one in power is noticing. Yet. Tom Wolfe meets Michael Crichton in this highly topical, witty and entertaining science thriller.When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the break-up started in July. The third year, it began in May.That was last...
| Автор | Kim Stanley Robinson |
A most entertaining volume of memoir from a legend of science fiction.A writer’s life can be exciting, unexpected, routine, lonely – and sometimes all on the same day! Brian Aldiss recounts the highs and lows of his professional career in this entertaining and revealing book.Here are his adventures with publishers, booksellers, agents, other authors, and readers. Here are some of the complex questions of what makes and sustains a successful modern writer. The tales he tells are wry, witty,...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
For the first time ever all three Suptertoys stories are collected in one essential volume.Featuring one of Brian Aldiss’ most renowned works, ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’, which was adapted into the 2001 film ‘A.I.’ directed by Steven Spielberg.David is just a little boy, a little boy who loves his mother and his teddy bear. David wants to make his mother happy, and tell her he loves her, but can't quite seem to find the words.His verbal communication centre is giving him trouble again. He...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writings.The contents include a letter to Salvador Dali, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, the work of Philip K. Dick, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, James Blish, Culture: Is it worth losing your balls for?and the differences between US and UK...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
What if John F. Kennedy survived?President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars.Aboard, Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet.Exploring mankind’s presence in the extra-terrestrial expanse, VOYAGE chronicles the incredible story of what could...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
A gripping, compulsive thriller set in a future where the cure for ageing has been discovered… to devastating consequencesThe ebook edition contains exclusive extra content.“You got me. I don’t want to die. I’m terrified of death. I fear there’s nothing beyond it and that this existence is the only one I’ll ever possess. That’s why I’m here.”(An excerpt from the digital journal of John Farrell, cure age 29)2019. Humanity has witnessed its greatest scientific breakthrough yet: the cure for...
| Автор | Drew Magary |
2025. Tied in to Baxter’s masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered.Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. But no echoes are returned … and Reid's reality begins to crumble around him. Huddling with his family, awaiting the...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
Aldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.Most of the arts – architecture, music, painting, cinema – come under review in this thought-provoking collection of essays first published in 1979.Aldiss writes here with characteristic humour the complex unity of art and science which forms the inner mystery of science fiction, and reveals new aspects whilst ‘exploring the familiar’.Brian says: ‘A collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects,...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
Venus has exploded. Showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans. Suddenly, the ground itself begins melting into pools of dust that grow larger every day. For what has demolished Venus, and now threatens Earth itself, is part machine, part life-form – a nano-virus, dubbed Moonseed. Four scientists are all that stand between Moonseed and Earth’s extinction, four brilliant minds that must race to cut off the virus and...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Reid gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling...
| Автор | Stephen Baxter |
An epic masterwork of science fiction, Neverness is a stand-alone novel from one of the most important talents in the genre. The universe of Neverness is intriguingly complex and filled with extraordinary beings. There are the Alaloi, whose genes have ‘backmutated’ so that they look like Neanderthals… the Order of Pilots, which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of ‘thickspace’… the Solid State Entity, a nebula-sized brain made up of...
| Автор | David Zindell |
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR is a brilliant short story collection from one of the genre’s master storytellers. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy, Omni, Gallery, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Day, and Weird Tales.Bradbury displays the unclassifiable versatility of his imagination in this collection of twenty stories.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
Aldiss’ first novel republished after many years out of print.In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount’s, which he describes as a ‘shabby outpost of literacy’. Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his efforts to find...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
"FANTASMAS, CHICAS Y OTROS ESPECTROS es una colección amplia de los cuentos de ficción individuales de Stephen Goldin, que contiene la mayoría de los cuentos de su colección previa EL ÚLTIMO FANTASMA Y OTROS CUENTOS. (Los cuentos del ”Ángel de negro” se han colocado en un volumen propio.) Estos cuentos cubren el espectro desde el humor al pathos y le garantizamos que lo entretendrán. FANTASMAS, CHICAS Y OTROS ESPECTROS es una colección amplia de los cuentos de ficción individuales de Stephen...
| Автор | Stephen Goldin |
São os anos 80 na América de um mundo alternativo. A sociedade dos E.U.A. desmorono devido a falta de alimentos, falta de combustíveis, instabilidade racial e uma variedade de outros problemas. Um grupo de pessoas planeja escapar para outro planeta e começar um novo mundo…se eles conseguirem atravessar o país roubando combustível e lutando contra bandidos para chegar até a nave antes que ela decole. São os anos 80 em uma apavorante América de um mundo alternativo. A sociedade dos E.U.A....
| Автор | Stephen Goldin |
Um alienígena está visitando a Terra de forma invisível, através de projeção astral, quando inadvertidamente ele testemunha um assassinato. Ele agora enfrenta dois problemas: deveria relatar o crime às autoridades? Em caso afirmativo, como? Wesley Stoneham, um advogado e político ambicioso, acaba de assassinar sua esposa em um ataque de raiva. Agora ele está planejando enquadrar um homem inocente pelo crime. Mas ele não percebeu que havia uma testemunha do crime: um alienígena invisível que...
| Автор | Stephen Goldin |
Действие происходит в 1980-е годы в Америке альтернативного мира. Американское общество развалилось из-за нехватки продовольствия, нехватки топлива, расовых волнений и множества других проблем. Однако группа людей намеревается сбежать на другую планету и начать там новую жизнь … если им удастся пересечь всю страну, запасаясь топливом и отбиваясь от бандитов, и добраться до космического корабля, прежде чем тот улетит. Действие происходит в 1980-е годы в жуткой альтернативной Америке....
| Автор | Stephen Goldin |
FANTASMAS, GAROTAS & OUTRAS APARIÇÕES é um coleção que compreende contos solo de ficção de Stephen Goldin, contém a maioria das histórias de sua antiga coleção O ÚLTIMO FANTASMA E OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS. (As histórias de ”Anjo em Negro” foram divididas em seu próprio volume). Essas histórias vão da gama do humor a empatia e são uma garantia de entretenimento. FANTASMAS, GAROTAS & OUTRAS APARIÇÕES é um coleção que compreende contos solo de ficção de Stephen Goldin, contém a maioria das histórias de...
| Автор | Stephen Goldin |