The long-awaited new novel from Hugo Award-winning writer Greg Egan! The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human, some near-human, and some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So, when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost race, he cannot turn it down!
Imagine a living prison so vast that it contains corridors and forests, cities and seas. Imagine a prisoner with no memory, who is sure he came from Outside, even though the prison has been sealed for centuries and only one man, half real, half legend, has ever escaped. Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires. One inside, one outside. But both imprisoned. Imagine a war that has hollowed the moon, seven skullrings that contain souls, a flying ship and a wall at the world's end. Imagine the unimaginable. Imagine Incarceron.
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why. Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she'll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?
Ben vengano i trattati fra Est e Ovest quando servono ad aumentare la distensione, ma non conviene farsi troppe illusioni in materia di segreti scientifici e militari. Supponiamo che in un laboratorio americano situato nei pressi di una frontiera da sempre considerata calda si verifichi un grave incidente, e che i primi a soccorrere i superstiti siano i sovietici. Supponiamo che l’unico superstite sia anche il piu importante, il dottor Lucas Martino, il solo uomo al corrente al progetto K-88. E ora supponiamo che i sovietici restituiscano agli americani il dottor Martino dopo averlo di certo strappato alla morte… ma “ricostruito” con un viso e altre parti del corpo interamente di metallo. Se foste sovietici, restituireste lo stesso uomo? E se foste americani, credereste ai sovietici? Se infine foste il dottor Lucas Martino, come vi sentireste a stare nel mezzo?Nominato per il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 1958.
Come sar? il nostro primo incontro con una razza, una civilt? extraterrestre? Gli scettici dicono: non ci sar? mai. I pessimisti obiettano: gi? non riusciamo ad andare d'accordo fra noi, figurarsi con gli alieni. Nondimeno, milioni di uomini continuano a fantasticare appassionatamente su quel tema, e decine di scrittori a esplorarne tutte le varianti possibili. Questo Rama, questo corpo estraneo che si presenta un giorno nel nostro cielo, questo cilindro grandioso che ? astronave, relitto, museo, enigmatica e solenne cattedrale, si pu? considerare una delle invenzioni di maggior fascino mai create dalla fantascienza. E la bravura di Clarke, maestro di verosimiglianza cosmica, sta nel persuaderci col suo inimitabile piglio insieme avventuroso e scientifico, che si tratta anche di un'invenzione tutt'altro che «impossibile». Che proprio cos? andranno forse le cose, quando scoccher? l'ora del primo incontro.
Veronica is a artist, painter. She's stuck in a relationship going nowhere with an alcoholic cop. So when she meets the enigmatic Marzden and is invited to an artists' retreat at his mansion deep in the country where she can paint with complete freedom, Veronica can't refuse. With her best friend, Ginny, a hugely successful writer, Veronica heads off to the retreat where she is quickly submerged in an almost dreamlike world filled with passionate and violent sex. All the while sensing that there is something brutal and dark hidden deep within Marzen and his two young and gorgeous ...
A.KONANS DOILSIND?GA JOSLAPasaulslavenais ang?u rakstnieks (1859—1930) las?t?jus iepriecin?jis ne vien ar priv?tdetekt?va Serloka Holmsa un vi?a uzticam? drauga doktora Vatsona gait?m, bet ar? ar vair?kiem zin?tniski fantastiskiem darbiem. Saj? gr?mat? las?t?js iepaz?sies ar da?iem d?kai?iem: av?zes reportieri, mednieku aristokr?tu un diviem zin?tniekiem, kuriem izzi?as alkas liek doties b?stamos ce?ojumos gan kalnos, gan j?ras dzelm?s. Autors ir spraiga si?eta meistars, m?k jautri un tr?p?gi pajokot un joproj?m ir viens no jaunatnes vism???kajiem rakstniekiem.R?GA «LIESMA» 19892. izdevums(A.KONANS DOILS MARAKOTA BEZDIBENIS)No ang?u valodas tulkoju?as Rute Runce, Tija P?tersone un ?ina KrilovaM?kslinieks ?irts BoronovshisRedaktors Andrejs RijnieksIzdevniec?ba «Liesma», 1989
El?as Wentik, que en un laboratorio secreto de la Ant?rtida experimenta con drogas que afectan al cerebro, es transportado de pronto a la selva brasile?a en el siglo XXII. El mundo ha sido devastado por armas nucleares y un gas venenoso todav?a activo. Wentik quiere volver a su propia ?poca y descubrir el ant?doto del gas, pero la Gran Guerra ya ha comenzado, y Wentik ha de decidir si escapa volviendo a 1989 o muere en el presente.
The brilliant sequel to and . Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching—in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they’ll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester’s daughter Wren is their eager dupe, bored and desperate for adventure. When the theft of the mysterious Tin Book of Anchorage goes wrong, Wren is snatched away in the limpet, who knows where. Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but this is the end of their quiet life on Anchorage. The journey will stir up old needs, old secrets—and send them into perilous waters…
Remo and Chiun join forces with Harold Smith and his crime-fighting organization in their battle against an artificial intelligence computer chip called Friend that hijacks CURE's computer system and holds the world hostage to technoterrorism.
Действие цикла происходит в мире созданном Айзеком Азимовым в своем цикле «Детектив Элайдж Бейли и робот Дэниел Оливо» после событий последнего романа цикла «Роботы и Империя».Зверское убийство Правителя Грега приводит планету Инферно на грань междуусобной войны. И без того напряженные отношения между колонистами, тысячелетия назад заселивишими эту землю, и вновь прибывшими посланцами грозят перерасти в откровенную бойню. ШерифАльвар Крэш делает все, чтобы найти преступника и предотвратить резню, но дело кажется безнадежным. Пока у следствия только: дыра от бластера в груди Правителя, полсотни искореженных роботов охраны, дюжина подозреваемых, вроде бы имевших «мотив», и никаких реальных зацепок.
Extreme. Obscene. Unclean. is all of these and so much more. Once we, the publisher, read this tour through a hell like no one has ever experienced, we became part of it, and there is no escape. It is doubtful that you will receive anything less merciful, so consider yourself warned. Purchase of this may cost your soul and sanity, but who knows? You may be a part of , already.There is only one way to find out.
