?wiat, w kt?rym energi? ?yciow? dla jego mieszka?c?w w?adze Miasta rozprowadzaj? przewodami. Codziennie o p??nocy podczas "godziny energii" obywatel – je?eli zapracowa? – otrzymuje dawk? na nast?pny dzie?. Bohaterka powie?ci pracuje jako taki piksel w ogromnych "widowiskach energii". W?r?d mieszka?c?w Miasta kr??y legenda o Zak?adzie, w kt?rym ka?dy p?awi si? w energii i wszystkim ?yje si? jak w raju. Dziewczyna-piksel postanawia odszuka? Zak?ad. Niestety, prawda okazuje si? nieco inna… Fascynuj?ca, pe?na emocjonuj?cych przyg?d powie?? duetu pisarskiego Diaczenk?w. "Dzika energia" sta?a si? w Rosji i na Ukrainie zaczynem projektu, w kt?ry zainwestowano ju? miliony dolar?w. Projekt obejmuje teledyski, widowiska muzyczno taneczne, lansowanie nowej mody i komiksy. Diaczenkowie prowadz? rozmowy z filmowcami na Zachodzie. Rosja i Ukraina da?y si? porwa? nurtowi dzikiej energii – czy w Polsce stanie si? podobnie?
Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels—all itching to kill someone. Madison Avery's dreams of ever fitting in at her new school died when did. Especially since she was able to maintain the illusion of a body, deal with a pesky guardian angel, and oh yeah, bring the reaper who killed her to untimely end. Not exactly in-crowd material. It's amazing that her crush, Josh, doesn't think she's totally nuts. Now Madison has learned that she's the dark timekeeper, in charge of angels who follow the murky guidelines of fate. Never one to abide by the rules, she decides it's time for a major change to the system. With the help of some unlikely allies, Madison forms a rogue group of reapers who definitely don't adhere to the rules of the heavens. But as she grapples with the terrifying new skills that come with being a timekeeper, Madison realizes she may not be prepared for what lies ahead—unless she gets some seriously divine intervention
Weaving an epic of complex dimensions, David Brin plaits initially divergent story lines, all set in the year 2038, into an outstandingly satisfying novel. At the center is a type of mystery: after a failed murder attempt, a group of people try to save the victim, recover the murder weapon, identify the guilty party and fend off other assassins, all the while being led through n+1 plot twists — each with a sense of overhanging doom, because the intended victim is Gaea, Earth herself. The struggle to save the planet gives Brin the occasion to recap recent global events: a world ...
is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood “Ish” Williams, Emma, and the community they founded. The survivors live off the remains of the old world, while learning to adapt to the new. Along the way they are forced to make tough decisions and choose what kind of civilization they will rebuild. won the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was included in Locus Magazine’s list ...
The time: 200 years after man’s first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. is the story of this emerging conflict.
When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan Trevante have been assigned the mission to capture the spaceship that supplies the fuel for the whole world. Given that Herzer vaguely thinks orbital decay is something having to do with teeth it should be… interesting. With all the usual combat expected in a John Ringo novel, sheds new light on the bizarre relationship between Herzer and Megan, the politics of the new born world and fascinating details of space technology.
The first thing you notice when reading Eastern Standard Tribe is that it suggests a methodology that Doctorow follows when building his novels: identify and research a cool new idea, add more and more cool bits to that idea, and then build into a story. In Down and Out the cool idea was reputation-based economies, and in Tribe it's a new kind of social group emerging that chooses to abandon its local standard time to live and work in stop with another more desirable one...Damien Broderick, in a recent review, coined the rather amusing term "blogpunk," which ...
Wanted: Bride. Must love children. Mortals need not apply.Carlos Panterra is looking for a mate, a woman who will love and care for the young orphans he's recently taken under his wing (or paw, as the case may be). When the shape shifter spies the beautiful Caitlyn, it's like sunshine amidst the darkness. At last, he's found the perfect woman, except . . .Caitlyn Whelan is mortal. Worse, her father is the head of a CIA agency bent on hunting the undead. Still, Caitlyn knows that Carlos is the man for her, shape shifter or not. So she jumps at the chance when her sister offers her a job to work with him, determined to show Carlos their attraction is more than just animal magnetism. But danger lurks in the night, and their unleashed, untamed passion might just get them both killed . . .
Nancy Kress, jedna z czo?owych wsp??czesnych pisarek science fiction, stworzy?a jak dot?d ca?y szereg prowokuj?cych i nagradzanych opowiada? oraz powie?ci. Na wy?yny sukcesu wspi??a si? dzi?ki trylogii . Pierwsza jej cz???, nagrodzona Hugo i Nebul? to . Ich kontynuacj? jest ksi??ka . Obie cz??ci przyj?to z entuzjazmem i obsypywano pochwa?ami. pisa?: „…rado?? czytania dzie?a SF, kt?re emanuje oryginalno?ci?”. A tak?e: „Znakomitym osi?gni?ciem Kress jest to, ?e post?p naukowy i ludzki idealizm, kt?re s? od zawsze si?? nap?dow? najlepszych dzie? SF, pozostaj? w ?cis?ym zwi?zku z pe?nym nami?tno?ci ba?aganem, jakim jest ?ycie…” Trylogi? ko?czy powie?? . Autorka zajmuje si? w niej problemami si? nap?dowych ewolucji, in?ynieri? genetyczn?, konfliktami spo?ecznymi i klasowymi oraz przedstawia nam problemy, z kt?rymi ludzko?? b?dzie boryka? si? w tym i w przysz?ym stuleciu.
