Apostat. Fugitif. Conqu?rant.Il s’appelle Julian Comstock ; il est le neveu du pr?sident des ?tats-Unis.Son p?re, le g?n?ral Bryce Comstock, a ?t? pendu pour trahison (on murmure qu’il ?tait innocent de ce crime).Julian est n? dans une Am?rique ? jamais priv?e de p?trole, une Am?rique ?tendue ? soixante ?tats, tenue de main de ma?tre par l’?glise du Dominion. Un pays en ruine, exsangue, en guerre au Labrador contre les forces mitteleurop?ennes. Un combat acharn? pour exploiter les ultimes ressources naturelles nord-am?ricaines.
In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again.Then out of Labrador come ...
From the Hugo-winning author of , an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the ...
A disastrous family vacation leads Charles and his two brothers to "divorce" their warring parents. Fleeing to the Orbital Elevator, a super high-tech beanstalk, they must either return home to a devastated Earth, or continue on to a new home somewhere on the Moon--where Charlie is caught between opposing forces in a battle for global domination. First in a new series.
… vermutet Direktor L. Zhang Wo, Leiter der wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungsstation im Orbit des Riesenplaneten. Und tats?chlich lassen Erkenntnisse einer Tauchexpedition in den Tiefen der Jupiter-Atmosph?re darauf schlie?en. Doch solche Forschungsvorhaben k?nnen nur heimlich durchgef?hrt werden, weil die christlichen Kreationisten und islamischen Fundamentalisten, die auf der Erde das Sagen haben, in der Suche nach au?erirdischen Lebewesen eine Blasphemie sehen und alle Ma?nahmen in dieser Richtung mit allen Mitteln unterbinden.Grant Archer, ein idealistischer junger Astronom, wird als Spitzel auf die Station entsandt, um Beweise f?r gottlose Aktivit?ten zu sammeln. Doch schon bald ?berwiegt seine Neugier und sein Forscherdrang die Loyalit?t zu seinen inquisitorischen Auftraggebern.
COMING OF AGE AMONG THE STARSMatt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth…But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with the slow advance of science. There was talk of closing down the lab. The Earthside pols wanted publicity, adventure and profits—and not necessarily in that order.So Matt had a bright idea. He figured he’d steal a spacesuit. Grab a spare shuttlecraft. And discover life on Jupiter…
There's a new sheriff in town, and he's got the Nightside's rich and powerful quaking in their boots. He's The Walking Man, and it's his mission to exorcise sinners — with extreme prejudice. Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin and corruption, and The Walking Man makes no distinction between evildoers and those simply indulging themselves. He'll leave the place a wasteland unless someone stops him, and P.I. John Taylor has been handed the job. No known magic or science can affect The Walking Man, and if John can't discover his weakness, he'll be facing the very Wrath of God.
Commissioned for the anthology , edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1993); first published in On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing, Summer 1993. Later it was reprinted in several anthologies including On Spec: , , and . In 2008 it was included in collection (1 edition Quarry Press, January 2002).Winner of both the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (“the Aurora”) for Best English-Language Short Story of 1993 and the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story of 1993.
He knows all about living alone. Knows all about life on the top floor, on the other side of the locks that keep him there. It's not a bad life. Lots of other kids have it worse, and he has everything he wants. Except for paper and pencils.He did a terrible thing once, with nothing more than a drawing and dislike, to someone who will never be right again.When Roni moves in next door for the summer, singing enigmatic songs in the window across from him, it's the beginning of a new adventure: friendship, and ...
K-PAX is a novel about a psychiatric patient who claims to be from another planet (K-PAX), his relationship with his doctor (Gene Brewer), and with the other patients at the hospital, some of whom show remarkable improvement after speaking with "prot" (rhymes with "goat"). The novel was first published in March, 1995 by St. Martin's Press (New York), and subsequently in 20 countries around the world. K-PAX was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke award in 1996. Reviews have been excellent (see Amazon.com). The paperback version appeared in March, 2001.
A young Earth woman transported to the planet Gor finds herself in the position of Tatrix, ruler of the great city-state of Corcyrus. But everything is not as it appears to be. A novel of intrigue and deception, set on the colourful and barbaric Counter-Earth.
