In 2026, the Earth faces an unexpected disaster. A supernova in the nearby Alpha Centauri system has apparently wiped out nearly every electronic component on the planet, leaving human civilization paralyzed. Phones don't work, transportation grinds to a halt, and essential services such as medical care are thrown back into the Stone Age. As the world tries to cope with this technological cut-off, a man dying of cancer begins a journey to save his life and that of his fellow patients, a master criminal escapes a sentence of “judiciary sleep,” a returning Mars expedition faces what looks like certain death, and U.S. president Saul Steinmetz strives to keep his country from falling apart. Author Charles Sheffield has taken a classic hard-SF concept, applied it to the real world, and created a gripping story of survival.
The nuclear war between Nazi Germany and the Race ends with a Germany surrender after Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Fuhrer, is killed and replaced by Walter Dornberger. Dornberger agrees to disband the Axis Forces, withdraw German troops from occupied France, and disband the German rocket and nuclear forces. The German withdrawal results in instability in the governments of its allies, such as the British Union of Fascists in Britain, as well as clashes between the Free French Forces and the new government of liberated France and radioactive drift into the Soviet Union. However, Dornberger secretly begins stockpiling weapons and missile ...
Against The Tide Of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own….
Against The Tide Of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own….
In the distant future, the world was a paradise — and then, in a moment, it was ended by the first war in centuries. People who had known godlike power, to whom hunger and pain were completely unknown, desperately scrabbled to survive. As the United Free States, the bastion of freedom and center of opposition to the tyrants of New Destiny, prepared for the long-feared invasion by the Changed legions of Ropasa, Edmund Talbot realized that bureaucratic ineptitude and overconfidence was setting the USF naval forces of ships and dragons up for a disastrous defeat at sea. His fears came ...
Na pytanie, ile jest 6 x 6, mo?na czasem us?ysze?: 66.Wys?annicy Piek?a s? w?r?d nas, koniec ?wiata ju? blisko!Agent Do?u ujawnia teczk? TW 0001.Meff Fason by? normalnym, lubi?cym si? zabawi? facetem. Pracownikiem dobrze notowanego na gie?dzie konsorcjum, specjalist? od opakowa? do opakowa?. Do dnia, kiedy si? dowiedzia?, ze jest ostatnim przedstawicielem diabelskiego rodu i ?e jego matka, Abigail, by?a w prostej linii potomkini? jednej ze spalonych w Salem czarownic. Chc?c wype?ni? historyczn? misj?, odszukuje innych ‘u?pionych’ agent?w Do?u: Drakul?, barona Frankensteina, ostatniego ?yj?cego wilko?aka, powi?zan? z ruchami kontrkulturowymi topielic? i pokracznego gnoma o imieniu Mister Priap. I razem z nimi przygotowuje ludzko?ci Rozwi?zanie Ostateczne.
Pi??set lat od za?o?enia jej przez Hariego Seldona Pierwsza Fundacja jest najwi?ksz? pot?g? w Galaktyce. Narz?dzonym tward? r?k? przez burmistrz Branno monolicie pojawia si? jednak rysa. Golan Trevize, cz?onek Rady Wykonawczej na Terminusie, g?osi pogl?d, ?e zniszczona rzekomo Druga Fundacja nadal decyduje o losie Pierwszej. Tymczasem mentalista Stor Gendibal, jeden z trantorskich M?wc?w, podejrzewa istnienie organizacji kontroluj?cej z ukrycia obie Fundacje. Zar?wno Trevize, jak i Gendibal wyruszaj? w przestrze?, by dowie?? swoich racji. Do ostatecznej rozgrywki, kt?rej stawk? jest przysz?o?? Galaktyki, dochodzi w pobli?u rodzinnej planety Mu?a, tyle ?e do ?cieraj?cych si? si? do??cza jeszcze jedna…Otrzyma?a nagrod? Hugo w 1983.Nominowana do nagrody Nebula w 1982.
Leh?? p??b?h zasazen? do zvl??tn?ho prost?ed? vzd?len? dvojice obydlen?ch planet. P?esn?ji ?e?eno, jedna planeta je obydlen?, na druh? civilizace zanikla glob?ln? v?lkou a nyn? je tam divo?ina pln? zar?staj?c?ch trosek. Na za??tku zvl??tn? detektivn? p??b?h se st?v? ak?n?m pot?, co je unesena meziplanet?rn? lo? za ??elem z?sk?n? zbran? z mrtv? planety.
Parts of this book were published before 1965 as separate titles.1. (1951)2. (1954)3. (1951)4. , also known as and (1960)Flandry, here a captain, undergoes a series of adventures: He is abducted by the Scothians, an alien race hoping to invade the Terran Empire; rescues the Emperor’s kidnapped granddaughter; meets Aycharaych, his nemesis in league with the Merseians; and investigates a previously unencountered alien race that has invaded the distant colonial world of Vixen.
The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it's quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he's going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.
Una bomba superatomica viene lanciata, da una nazione sconociuta, su una piccola citt? americana dove si cela un centro per le ricerche atomiche. L’esplosione ha per effetto di rompere la continuit? del tempo e sbalestrare la piccola citt?, intatta, in un’epoca dell’avvenire, a milioni di anni nel futuro, in una Terra morente e arida, inabitabile e deserta. La Federazione delle Stelle, che governa tutti i mondi del futuro, interviene per evacuare la popolazione della citt? su un altro pianeta. Ma la popolazione si ribella, e, con l’aiuto di uno scienziato del futuro, alla Terra morente viene iniettata una potente carica atomica che ha la virt? di riscaldarla nuovamente. Gli ultimi superstiti rimangono quindi sulla Terra rinata e la vita degli abitanti della piccola citt? pu? riprendere il suo corso normale, nella eterna storia dell’Universo.
“Lo scatto di rabbia che Forzon quasi si aspettava non venne. Il re, evidentemente, considerava l’Intendente Jef Forzon come un enigma da risolvere pi? che come un prigioniero da castigare. Inclin? il capo di lato e consider? Forzon con un’espressione di grande perplessit?. Improvvisamente scatt? in piedi, guardando fisso verso le feritoie… Sopra la citt?, alto, squillante e morbido, destando mille echi rifrangenti, veniva dalontano il suono delle trombe.”Che cosa accade ai margini della Galassia, oltre confine, dove l’Ente per le relazioni interplanetarie non riesce a creare nel continente Kurr del pianeta Gurnil le ...
DON'T BREATHE THE AIRThey are tiny, genetically engineered blue seeds that mature quickly into trees that literally suck all the oxygen out of the air. They're the twisted experiment of the earth-friendly but highly secretive Congress of Concerned Scientists, and now they've been snatched its head, Dr. Hubert St. Clair.Having killed off all but one of his scientific team, he's leading Remo and Chiun on a chase through the proverbial forest. He's got enough seeds to choke off the world's oxygen supply, and the ability to create environmental disasters at will. Battling everything from acid rain to blistering heat to frigid cold, the Destroyer races to thwart double disaster in the Amazon rainforest: St. Clair is planting seeds like a maniac and a U.S. President prepares to nuke Brazil onto oblivion.
