A spellbinding tale of a tradition-bound centuries-old Earth Colony and an Earthman who offers a magic drug that tears down the walls between men’s souls.
An expert in Leonardo DaVinci's works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine the moment she sees it in a Stanford lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to briefly go back in time — landing in the middle of a fierce battle in ninth-century Britain. And when she returns to modern-day San Francisco, she brings something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen.The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy's life. There are others who want to harness the time machine's power for treacherous ends, and they need Lucy to do it. Galen becomes first her protector, then the lover she's always dreamed of. But danger is drawing closer, and time is running out. For Galen and Lucy, it's now...or forever.
A F?ld?n egy a k?lvil?gt?l mesters?gesen elz?rt v?ros Diaspar alussza Csipker?zsika ?lm?t ?vmilli?k ?ta. Lak?i m?gis „?bren vannak”, ?lnek, j?rnak-kelnek, alkotnak, szeretnek ?s van egy k?l?n?s k?pess?g?k: halhatatlanok, ha nekik ?gy tetszik, k?pesek ?jra sz?letni, ak?r ?jabb ?vmilli?k m?lva is.Ebbe az ?r?k v?ltozatlans?gba sz?letik bele Alvin a Kiv?lasztott, aki mer?ben m?s v?gyakkal rendelkezik, mint a t?bbi ember, meg akarja tudni, mi van a v?ros falain k?v?l. Mivel erre senkit?l, m?g a K?zponti Kompj?tert?l sem kap v?laszt, maga indul el, rejtett f?ldalatti folyos?kon, hogy megfejtse a titkot, a Diaspar elz?rk?z?s?nak titk?t.
?ri?si rep?l? hidr?k, lila am?b?k, r?m?t? sz?rnyek k?z? ker?lnek egy rejt?lyes kataklizma k?vetkezt?ben Carsac tudom?nyos-fantasztikus reg?ny?nek robinsonjai. ?ssze kell szedni?k minden erej?ket ?s tud?sukat, hogy emberi lak?helly? v?ltoztathass?k az idegen bolyg?t, a Tellust. Carsac — eredeti nev?n Francois Bordes geol?gus ?s ?st?rt?n?sz — az izgalmas kalandot, a robinzon?dot ?s az elgondolkoztat? ut?pi?t egyes?ti vil?gh?r?, sz?mos nyelvre leford?tott reg?ny?ben…
In California, the victims are blind. In Maine, severely retarded. Small towns across America are being systematically “wiped out” by terrorists and their campaign of germ warfare waged against the U.S. The President’s only option seems to be an equally deadly counterattack.
First appeared in Magazine, 1957/7.A part of collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1960 by Bantam Books.
Dale Stewart's life has become a shadow of what it once was. A respected college professor and successful novelist, he sabotaged his career and his marriage with an obsessive love affair that ended badly.With darkness closing in on him, Dale decides to return to his boyhood home in Illinois. Drawn by a recurring nightmare that has plagued him since his youth -- and a troubling certainty that something is waiting for him there -- he hopes to exorcise his demons.In the last hours of Halloween, he reaches the outskirts of the dying town of Elm Haven. There, ...
Li Lixia is one of eight field anthropologists set down on Sigma Draconis II after the first starship from Earth detects pre-industrial intelligent life there. She experiences several of the cultures of the humanoid people of the planet as she travels with Nia, a female exile of the Iron People. Arnason introduces Nia and her way of life, then brings in Lixia and, gradually, includes others of the starship’s exploratory team. While removed from the starship, the anthropologists remain in contact with it as they all struggle with the question of whether their active intervention will help or harm those whom they encounter. As in life, no clear answers are offered.Nominated for John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1992.
When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol of the new peace between the two great rivals.Humankind's first close encounter with extraterrestrials would be history in the making, and the two teams were schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepared them for alien war -- especially when the Americans and the Soviets found themselves on opposite sides...
