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Introduced by beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss as one of the foundational novels of the genre, Miguel Collazo’s 1960s classic The Journey is a mind-opening parable of social progress, prophets and reluctant masses, and humanity’s metaphysical voyage inward. On planet Ambar, long ago colonized by scientists who arrived by spaceship, inhabitants no longer live in cities. Generation after generation, Ambarians wander through the desert, the valley, and the ruins as the mysterious...
| Автор | Miguel Collazo |
Keep your head down. Don’t get noticed. Or Else. I’m Trella. I’m a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I just do my job and try to avoid the Population Control Police, who dream of recycling scrubs into fertiliser. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels?It’s not like it’s dangerous… Well, turns out it is. Because I know every corridor, pipe and shortcut I’ve become the go-to girl to lead a...
| Автор | Maria Snyder V. |
The first volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet., available for the first time on ebook.Thomas C. Squire, popular presenter of television documentaries, one time secret agent, a hedonist whose worldly success and self-confidence overshadow the lives of his family and friends, faces a mid-life crisis which undermines the stability of his ancient house. This brilliant and sometimes violent novel moves from England to Sicily, Singapore and Jugoslavia.Brian says: ‘A complex and argumentative drama...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
The third book in the Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties, when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market .Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy in the mid-eighties .Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague, dreaming of making more films when times improve .The lifelines of these people and others – comic and sad by turns in true Aldiss fashion – converge...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
In ‘Annihilation’, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X – a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilisation. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck.Just months later, ‘Authority’, the second volume, is here. For thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X has taken the form of a series of expeditions monitored by a secret agency called the...
| Автор | Jeff VanderMeer |
’A contemporary masterpiece’ GuardianTHE THIRD VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSONIt is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown – navigating new terrain and new challenges – the threat to...
| Автор | Jeff VanderMeer |
The final volume of the critically acclaimed Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.Having abandoned Britain to its recession, architectural historian Roy Burnell operates out of Germany, attempting to hold the world together culturally. Moving around the more outrageous parts of the globe, his task is to list architectural gems threatened by war, history and human awfulness.Such is man’s ingenuity, however, that Burnell’s mind is also threatened. Someone has stolen a chunk of...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers an intergalactic tale of impossible love…and betrayalThe first time Mekashe, Captain of the Imperial Guard, meets blue-eyed human beauty Jasmine Donally, the two nearly come to blows. Forever devoted to the Cehn-Tahr, Mekashe is forced to sever ties with the object of his adoration. Years pass before their paths cross again, but Mekashe hasn’t forgotten what transpired—or the way she makes his heart race. But even if he can forgive the...
| Автор | Diana Palmer |
Rhemun, Commander of the Cehn-Tahr Holconcom, has worked tirelessly to get where he is—and he’s not going to let any human drag him back down. Especially not Lt. Commander Edris Mallory, whose very presence aboard the Morcai serves as a too-painful reminder of a past tragedy he can neither forgive nor forget.But Mallory has secrets of her own—ones she can’t afford to see come to light. Frantic to protect herself, she flees, abandoning her position. When Rhemun learns of her devastating...
| Автор | Diana Palmer |
A story charting the events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the Fielding family, whose fortunes are altered irrevocably…The Brian Aldiss collection includes over 50 books and spans the author’s entire career, from his debut in 1955 to his more recent work.On the glorious sands of the North Norfolk coast, Steve, the youngest member of the Fielding family, plays alone. But are these halcyon days?War is looming, and things will never be the same again. This book, described by Brian as...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They live long, purposeful, untroubled lives.Then one day The Ice begins, and ice and snow cover the planet’s surface. Crops and animals die off, and the people must learn to live with...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.Ambien II is one of the Five – the highest level of the Sirian Colonial Service and the hidden rulers of the Sirian Empire for thousands of years. She is an accomplished administrator, a mover of populations and controller of events – and lives in the certain knowledge that the Sirian Empire is the most advanced in the galaxy.As she narrates her...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |
Debut novel of adventure, romance and interplanetary intrigue from a new voice in science fiction.When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps engineer Commander Elena Shaw is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent – he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?Retracing Danny’s last hours, she discovers that his death may be tied to a tragedy from...
| Автор | Elizabeth Bonesteel |
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false sentiment. The Canopean Empire deploys covert agents to help the Volyens resist. But one of these agents, Incent, succumbs to ‘Undulant Rhetoric’, and Agent Klorathy must go to Volyen to help him see...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |
A reluctant hero must prevent war in space and on Earth in this fast-paced military science fiction thriller from the author of The Cold Between and Remnants of Trust.Space is full of the unknown . . . most of it ready to kill you.When hostilities between factions threaten to explode into a shooting war on the moon of Yakutsk, the two major galactic military powers, Central Corps and PSI, send ships to defuse the situation. But when a strange artifact is discovered, events are set in motion that...
| Автор | Elizabeth Bonesteel |
In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space.In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space.Six weeks ago, Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster were court-martialed for their role in an event Central Gov denies ever happened....
| Автор | Elizabeth Bonesteel |
VOLUME 1/3 – (Português Brasileiro) ”Estávamos no caminho de volta. Apenas um dos nossos anos solares se passou desde que fomos forçados a deixar o planeta às pressas, mas para eles, em anos terrestres, se passaram 3.600. O que encontraríamos?” Nibiru, o décimo segundo planeta do nosso sistema solar, tem uma órbita extremamente elíptica e retrógrada, muito maior do que todas as outras. De fato, leva aproximadamente 3.600 anos para completar uma volta em torno do Sol. Seus habitantes,...
| Автор | Danilo Clementoni |
Quanto riesci a pensare velocemente? Limitless incontra Black Mirror in questo romanzo che porta la mente di una coppia al limite. Quando Galene incontra un uomo il cui unico scopo nella vita è accelerare i propri processi mentali, finisce per innamorarsi di lui. Ma riuscirà a far proseguire la relazione nella torre di vetro quando in realtà è una pelandrona impantanata nei propri obiettivi non raggiunti, quando la loro differenza d'età diventerà un problema troppo grosso e quando ciò su cui...
| Автор | George Saoulidis |
One day not too far from now there will be too many people on this planet. When that day comes, what will we do? Jerry, Michael, Emily, Amelia, Abigail and David receive their answer in the form of a letter. Proxima B is waiting for them and is going to expose their differences and their fears, which will let them make unexpected choices. Sometimes, a more obvious answer is not more predictable. Co-authored science fiction novel about a space mission that leads a group of colonists to land on...
| Автор | Pulvirenti Giorgio |
Eine Zeit der Verluste, Entbehrungen und Trauer ist angebrochen. In der Anfangsphase des Krieges gegen die Nefraltiri und ihre unbezwingbar erscheinenden Sklaven-Armeen, erleiden die republikanischen Streitkräfte und ihre Verbündeten mehrere entscheidende Niederlagen. Die verzeichneten Verluste sind verheerend. Dennoch gelingt es unter großen Opfern, eine halbwegs stabile Verteidigungslinie zu etablieren. Aber wie lange kann sie gegen den Ansturm des Gegners halten? Ein verzweifelter Plan nimmt...
| Автор | Stefan Burban |
Kellan considers himself lucky to have an adequate existence on earth where, in the year 2044, common citizens toil under the oppressive thumb of a corrupt and unscrupulous government. Kellan dreams of becoming part of the Department of Paranormal, Supernatural, and Fantasy Sciences, but his application is continually denied because he has no extra-sapien blood. Kellan's simple reality shifts when Rhône unexpectedly enters his life.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIESThe Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.The First Foundation has been defeated, crushed by the formidable mental powers of the Mule. But whispers of the mysterious Second Foundation, the only hope...
| Автор | Айзек Азимов |
What would you do if your home assistant turned evil?‘Terrifyingly believable and utterly gripping.’ Lisa Jewell‘The Assistant is the definition of suspense!’ Jeffery DeaverShe’s in your house. She controls your life. Now she’s going to destroy it.From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellerShe watches you constantly. Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friend’s spare room almost rent-free. The high-tech luxury Camden flat is managed by a meticulous Home Assistant, called Electra,...
| Автор | S.K. Tremayne |
„Kuutolmu varing“ on briti ulmeklassiku Sir Arthur C. Clarke’i kümnes eestikeelne raamat. Tegu on klassikalise katastroofiromaaniga, mille tegevus toimub lähituleviku koloniseeritud Kuul. Lõbusõidulaev Selene vajub kuuvärina tagajärjel 15 meetri sügavusele kuutolmu kihi sisse ning jääb sinna koos reisijatega lõksu. Ja hapnikku jätkub neil vaid piiratud ajaks. Algab keerukas päästeoperatsioon, samal ajal peab meeskond toime tulema reisijate psühholoogiliste probleemidega. Tegu on pingelise ja...
| Автор | Arthur C. Clarke |