An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.The novel tells the story of an expedition beginning in the year 2061 to capture Comet Halley into a short period orbit so that its resources can be mined. The discovery of life on the comet and the subsequent survival struggle against the indigenous lifeforms and the illnesses and infections they cause leads to a breakdown of the expedition crew and the creation ...
Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a “Restored United States” postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists.
Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered techniques by which non-intelligent creatures are given intelligence by one of the higher races in the galaxy. Once “Uplifted”, these creature must serve their patron race before they, in turn, can Uplift other races. Human intelligence, which developed by itself (and brought about the Uplifting of chimpanzees and dolphins), is an affront to the aliens who plan an attack, threatening a human experiment aimed at producing the next Uplift.
La joven Maia, una descastada nacida en verano, debe abandonar el clan de sus privilegiadas medio hermanas clones nacidas en invierno. Su dif?cil y peligroso viaje inici?tico arranca en los muelles de Puerto Sanger y prosigue a bordo de uno de los barcos tripulados por los escasos hombres (menos de un veinte por ciento) que forman la poblaci?n de Stratos, un mundo creado por y para las mujeres. S?lo el dif?cil y lejano ?xito le permitir? ser la fundadora de un nuevo clan. Las manipulaciones gen?ticas de la Madre Fundadora Lysos han creado en Stratos un mundo nuevo y distinto, dominado por mujeres que se reproducen por clonaci?n. Una nueva opci?n sociopol?tica, tecnol?gica, ecol?gica y, sobre todo, en el ?mbito de la relaci?n entre ambos sexos. En la senda de la literatura que denuncia las relaciones entre los sexos o propone establecer nuevos v?nculos, se une a obras ya clasicas como de Ursula K. Le Guin.
Ewolucja we wszech?wiecie powie?ci Brina nie jest tylko si?? naturaln? — rozwini?te gatunki istot inteligentnych przyspieszaj? rozw?j innych, „ni?szych” ras w ramach galaktycznego porz?dku wspomagania. Wi??e si? z tym tak?e system powiernictwa planet — Ziemianie otrzymali Garth w celu przyspieszenia odbudowy jego zniszczonego ekosystemu. Jednak ptasiopodobni Gubru szykuj? inwazj? na Garth. Chc? nie tylko przej?? planet?, ale tak?e wykorzysta? j? w szanta?u, maj?cym na celu ujawnienie miejsca stacjonowania odkrytej przez ziemski statek „Streaker” kosmicznej floty staro?ytnej rasy. Rozpocz?ta wojna toczy si? nie tylko na powierzchni Garth, gdzie pozbawione ludzkich zwierzchnik?w neoszympansy organizuj? partyzantk?, ale i na poziomie galaktycznego systemu wspomagania, w ramach kt?rego Ziemianie walcz? o swoje prawo do planety.
