Un’astronave stellare da esplorazione spedisce su un pianeta sconosciuto sei moduli di atterraggio e ne vede tornare sette. Su quel pianeta c’и chiaramente “qualcosa che non va”… Ma nelle zone piщ remote e selvagge del Cosmo, si sa, le cose non vanno mai perfettamente lisce e gli esploratori devono sempre stare in guardia, devono sempre aspettarsi di tutto. Giustamente Bob Shaw ha messo in epigrafe alla strabiliante saga dell’astronave “Sarafand” questi memorabili versi di R. L. Stevenson: “Per il Cosmo strano e selvaggio me ne vado, da eterno straniero. Il mio amore sono le tue strade e i brillanti occhi del pericolo”.
Jason Taverner est un homme combl? : toutes les semaines, 30 millions de Fans regardent son show t?l?vis?.Mais il se r?veille un matin dans une chambre d'h?tel sordide pour s'apercevoir que son identit? s'est ?vanouie sans laisser de trace : m?me sa ma?tresse, la belle Heather Hart, ne se souvient plus de lui.Une situation pour le moins inconfortable, dans un Etat ultra-policier o? tout d?faut de papiers d'identit? suffit ? vous faire exp?dier dans un camp de travail…Seulement voil? : ce n'est pas un homme comme les autres. Produit d'une exp?rience secr?te, Taverner est un un mutant aux nerfs d'acier qui m?nera une lutte sans merci, sous les yeux d'un sentimental, contre la folie o? vient de basculer le monde…
A vast alien landscape and a human culture based on our own, yet evolved in strange and wondrous ways by the forces of an inimical nature provide a panoramic backdrop for the romantic adventures of a large cast of memorable and attractive characters.Won Compton Crook Award for best first novel in 1983.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.The UK edition was entitled .
Redemption isn't a word Jim Heron knows much about-his specialty is revenge, and to him, sin is all relative. But everything changes when he becomes a fallen angel and is charge with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. And failure is not an option.Vin DiPietro long ago sold his soul to his business, and he's good with that—until fate intervenes in the form of a tough-talking, Harley-riding, self-professed savior. But then he meets a woman who will make him question his destiny, his sanity, and his heart-and he has to work with a fallen angel to win her over and redeem his own soul.
Philip K Dick Award (nominee)In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the enemy have escaped into the past, intent on wreaking havoc across time. The worst of these is Cowl, an artifically forced advance in human evolution.
Much of the city can't wake up. And more are dozing off each day. Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker's fellow cops are down with the blue flu—or rather the blue sleep. Yet there's no physical cause anyone can point to—and it keeps spreading. It has to be magical, Joanne figures. But what's up with the crazy dreams that hit her every time she closes her eyes? Are they being sent by Coyote, her still-missing spirit guide? The messages just aren't clear. Somehow Joanne has to wake up her sleeping friends while protecting those still awake, figure out her inner-spirit dream life and, yeah, come to terms with these dreams she's having about her boss.... Wouldn't it be easier to just save the world?
Hissune, el joven compa?ero de lord valentine en y , aburrido de sus tareas rutinarias, consigue curiosear a sus anchas en el Registro de Almas, el lugar donde la prol?fica vida pasada de Majipur se conserva en forma de grabaciones que contienen las vivencias de sus moradores.Hissune conoce as? los extra?os amores de los humanos y seres reptilescos, vive la tragedia del pintor espiritual que encuentra a un metamorfo con apariencia de mujer bell?sima, realiza la traves?a del Gran Oc?ano y se ve rodeado e inmovilizado por algas malignas...En el ...
This far-reaching, spine-tingling adventure stretches from the dawn of time to the distant future, from the edges of the universe to the vast depths of the sea. At the bottom of the ocean, an alien creature is dormant. But the time has come for it to awaken. And as it stirs, its power will be unleashed on the planet—and trigger the dawn of human extinction.
Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories-including a brand-new one-in one long tale of exploration and adventure! PLUS-an all-new framing story that pulls together all of Beowulf Shaeffer's adventures and allows Shaeffer and his family to make a clean start at life once and for all!
Near what was one the Pacific Northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever.Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists.These psychopathic descendants of a twentieth-century government research team are blindly laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to destroy has already died.In a frantic race to stop this bizarre society from testing its horrific weapons, Ryan realizes that if he fails an already nuke— scorched Earth faces another Armageddon.In the Deathlands the past and the future are clashing with frightening force.
