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?
Een hedendaagse man bevindt zich opeens in de wereld van de toekomst (?), bevolkt door eigenaardige wezens. Een wereld met een vreemde, onveranderlijk grijze lucht en eigenaardige bouwwerken Tussen de gebouwen zijn verbindingen die je niet kan zien zodat het lijkt of je in de lucht wandelt. Maar zoveel is zeker, de wereld is de Aarde en de wezens zijn mensen. Maar hoever in de toekomst is hij? En het ergste is: het zijn wel mensen die hem omringen, maar het zijn geen mannen of vrouwen.Zijn gastheren/vrouwen zijn beide. Hermafroditische mensen met de kenmerken van beide geslachten. De man uit onze tijd heeft vooral moeite om dit te verwerken. Hij probeert te achterhalen wat er van zijn wereld is geworden en hoe deze wereld is ontstaan. De ontknoping is een overweldigende verrassing. Sturgeon is een van de weinige sf-auteurs die (zoals Philip Jos? Farmer, sf 8 en sf 30) de seksuele moraal ter discussie stellen.
TAL COMO PREDIJERON LOS ANTIGUOS PROFETAS, un apocalipsis destruy? el planeta en el siglo XXI. Pero, dos mil a?os despu?s, Elyon puso en el mundo a un nuevo Ad?n. Sin embargo, esta vez Dios otorg? una ventaja a la humanidad. Lo que una vez fue invisible, ahora se pod?a ver. Era algo bueno y recib?a 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 a?os conocido como Thomas Hunter se durmi? en nuestro mundo y ...
Ballard's genius for imagining exotic places appears again in Vermilion Sands where he creates a fantasy landscape of the future. These stories feature forgotten movie queens and guilt-ridden femmes fatales who exercise their every whim in a culture of unlimited technology.
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 ...
V.MIHAILOVSVI?PUS DURV?MFANTASTISKS ROM?NSR?GA «LIESMA» 1980В. МихайловДВЕРЬ С ТОЙ СТОРОНЫ Фантастический роман Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1974No krievu valodas tulkojis P?teris Zirn?tis M?kslinieks Arv?ds GaleviussTulkojums latvie?u valod?, «Liesma», 1980
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 profondit? 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.
Como en todos los viajes inici?ticos, en El viaje a Oriente lo que cuenta no es la meta esquiva e imprecisa, sino el recorrido en s? mismo, el proceso que lleva a sus protagonistas hacia el descubrimiento de una nueva realidad, que pasa por la muerte simb?lica y el renacimiento espiritual. Esta novela es, junto con Siddharta, la m?s importante contribuci?n de Herman Hesse al tema del desarrollo interior del hombre y la b?squeda del sentido de la existencia. Se trata de una novela breve claramente aleg?rica, en el que un singular viaje ...
`Viaje por tres mundos`, novela corta de AS Abramov, sobre un experimento para trasladarse a trav?s de los diferentes mundos paralelos, con la consecuente confusi?n en la mente del protagonista.
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 ...
Following in the footsteps of megasellers Neil Gaiman and Jim Butcher, comic book writer Mike Carey presents his second hip supernatural thriller featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor. Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after the case of the Bonnington Archive ghost convinced him that he really can do some good with his abilities ('good', of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead). But his friend, Rafi, is still possessed; the succubus, Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends), still technically has a contract on him; and he's still—let's not beat around the bush—dirt poor. Doing ...
For the first time in forever, Jayn? 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. Jayn? 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. . . .
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 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.
