A hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, two of the world’s most powerful corporations race to find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury liner. The quest to uncover the secrets of the wreck and reclaim her becomes an obsession… and for some, a fatal one.
The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both authors will definitely notice some striking similarities between and other recent works by the two, specifically Baxter’s and Clarke’s . follows a soulless tech billionaire (sort of an older, more crotchety Bill Gates), a soulful muckraking journalist, and the billionaire’s ...
BLAST OFF!"Between the first and last decades of the Twentieth Century lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in morse code and global television from the sky, between Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and Kwame Chaka, Supreme President of the African Federation. But above all, it was the gulf between the first hundred-foot flight at Kitty Hawk , and the first billion mile mission to the moons of Jupiter. . . ."This was the beginning of the first version of 2001-the version that ...
Paradise Lost: Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise — home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas…Then the arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.
1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a British army action to repress a local uprising. And to a terrifying intervention by a squadron of tanks from 2137. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in Kipling, his friends and the tanks are, themselves flung back to the 4th century and the midst of Alexander the Great’s army. Mankind’s time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage to China. And it will present mankind with two devastating truths. Aliens are amongst us and have been manipulating our past and our future. And that future extends only as far as 2137 for that is the date Earth will be destroyed. This is SF that spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on time travel and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre's masters at their groundbreaking best.
Tik kelios salos bekra??iame vandenyne — Talasos planeta buvo tikras rojus, kuriame prie? daugyb? ?imtme?i? ?sik?r? Motininiu laivu atvykusi ?moni? kolonija, kai mokslininkai nustat?, kad gan greitai Saul? pavirs nova.?tai tuomet Talasos danguje apsirei?kia mil?ini?kas ?vaig?d?laivis „Magelanas”, gabenantis savo triumuose milijon? ?altuoju miegu miegan?i? paskutini?j? ?em?s gyventoj?…
«Arthur Clarke — dice The New York Times— rompe todas las reglas. Escribe best sellers que no tienen sexo ni violencia, ni tensiones familiares, ni h?roes convencionales.» Su popularidad es enorme, sin embargo. Baste recordar el ?xito de Cita con Rama y 2010 Odisea dos. En esta nueva gran novela de ciencia ficci?n, Voces de un mundo distante, Clarke aborda uno de sus temas favoritos: el choque entre dos culturas. Thalassa es un verdadero para?so. Un pu?ado de islas, en medio de un vasto y c?lido oc?ano planetario, donde se ha instalado una peque?a ...
Szef wielkiej stacji telewizyjnej dokonuje epokowego odkrycia — znajduje metod? tworzenia mikrotuneli podprzestrzennych, kt?re pozwalaj? zajrze? kamerze w ka?de miejsce w tera?niejszo?ci i przesz?o?ci... W przezroczystym ?wicie nic nie ukryje si? przed kamer?. Ludzie zaczynaj? szuka? sposob?w na ukrycie swojej prywatno?ci i swoich zbrodni…
Rok 2142. Up?yn??o dziesi?? lat od chwili pojawienia si? Ramy, tajemniczego statku kosmicznego Obcych. Ziemia i jej pozaplanetarne kolonie pogr??one s? w Wielkim Chaosie. Siostra Beatrice i in?ynier Johann Ebehardt zauwa?aj? niewyt?umaczalne zjawisko — zmiennokszta?tne chmury ?wietlistych mikroskopijnych kulek. Tylko oni dwoje przeczuwaj? zwi?zane z nimi nadci?gaj?ce niebezpiecze?stwo…
je sci-fi rom?n A.C. Clarka a Gentryho Lee. Rom?n je sou??st? tetralogie o R?movi, mimozemsk? kosmick? lodi, kter? prol?t?vala Slune?n? soustavou. V angli?tin? kniha vy?la 26. z??? 1991, v ?e?tin? v nakladatelstv? Baronet roce 1994 a 2010. P?ekladatelem knihy je Vladim?r Han?k.Rom?n rozv?d? d?j p?ede?l?ho d?lu, N?vrat R?my, a l??? p??b?h Nicole des Jardinsov?, Richarda Wakefielda a Michaela O'Toola, kte?? z?stali v R?movi pot?, co z n?j odlet?l zbytek pr?zkumn? pos?dky. Kniha m? celkem 5 kapitol: Nicolin den?k, V Uzlu, Setk?n? na Marsu, Svatebn? p?se? a Soud.
