? ? ? ? ? ? is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to the country’s deepest bomb shelter housing important military personnel and equipment. For security reasons those who go down, stay down.Four thousand feet away from sunshine, is considered secure from the most devastating attack and has been prepared to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Marriages are made in this inverted heaven; food is taken in the form of pulp and pills. All is ordained by the god Loudspeaker which, unseen and omnipresent, voices commands for the good of its creatures.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts.
Welcome to the future. Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system ...
In Ben Bova’s novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter’s hostile planet-wide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant’s team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet’s depths. However one of Jupiter’s native creatures—a city-sized leviathan—saved the doomed ship. This creature’s act convinced Grant that the huge creatures were intelligent, but he lacked scientific proof.Now, several years later, Grant prepares a new expedition to prove once and for all that the huge creatures are intelligent. The new team faces dangers from both the hostile environment and from humans who will do anything to make sure the mission is a failure, even if it means murdering the entire crew.
Na planet? Gethen (zwanej r?wnie? Zim?) przybywa pierwszy reprezentant Ekumeny z wydaje si? prost? misj? - zjednania sobie wielkich tego ?wiata i nak?onienia ich do wst?pienia w jej szeregi . Genly Ai - bo takie imi? nosi czarnosk?ry "mobil", przybywa samotnie, bez ?adnego uzbrojenia - wyposa?ony jedynie w przedmiot do komunikacji z najbli?szym ludzkim ?wiatem, odpowiednie umiejetno?ci oraz dobre ch?ci. Niestety Zima jest ?wiatem niezwykle nieprzyjaznym, panuje na niej permanentna epoka lodowcowa a na dodatek jej mieszka?cy to androgeni (osobniki dwup?ciowe) z diametralnie odmienn? od g??wnego bohatera filozofi? ?yciow?.Powie?? otrzyma?a nagrod? Nebula w 1969, nagrod? Hugo w 1970.
L’esprit de l’hiver s'est ?pris de Tiphaine Patraque. Il lui offre des icebergs, se d?clare par des avalanches et la couvre de flocons — t?moignages d’amour un peu rudes pour une apprentie sorci?re de treize ans, mais qui ne manquent pas de… fra?cheur.« Miyards ! »Ah ! oui, et revoici les Nac mac Feegle, les ch'tits hommes libres, venus donner un coup de main, que ?a lui plaise ou non. Car, si Tiphaine ne fait pas entendre raison ? son soupirant, il n’y aura plus jamais de printemps.
« Muller vivait depuis neuf ans dans le labyrinthe. Maintenant, il le connaissait bien. Il savait ses pi?ges, ses m?andres, ses embranchements trompeurs, ses trappes mortelles. Depuis le temps, il avait fini par se familiariser avec cet ?difice de la dimension d’une ville, sinon avec la situation qui l’avait conduit ? y chercher refuge. »Tous les hommes qui avaient tent? de p?n?trer dans le labyrinthe de Lemnos avant Muller ?taient morts d’une fa?on atroce. Tous ceux qui avaient essay? de l’y rejoindre par la suite avaient ?t? massacr?s.Aujourd’hui Ned Rawlins vient d’atterrir pr?s du labyrinthe. Il a re?u l’ordre de ramener Muller sur la Terre, sa plan?te natale qui a besoin de lui. Sa plan?te qui, neuf ans auparavant, l’avait impitoyablement chass?, forc? ? se r?fugier au c?ur de ce labyrinthe aux d?dales mortels.Quelles chances Rawlins a-t-il de survivre et d’accomplir sa mission ?
Gurgeh est l’un des plus c?l?bres joueurs de jeux que la Culture ait jamais connu. Il joue, gagne, enseigne, th?orise. La Culture est une immense soci?t? galactique, pacifiste, multiforme, anarchiste, tol?rante, ?thique et cynique. Elle est compos?e d’humains, d’Intelligences Artificielles et d’esp?ces ?trang?res qui ont accept? ses valeurs. Elle cultive les loisirs et les jeux qui ont le statut d’un art majeur.Le Contact, service de la Culture sp?cialis? dans l’?valuation et l’infiltration de civilisations ?trang?res nouvellement d?couvertes, consid?re ...
Pr?voir l'avenir. Un vieux r?ve de l'humanit?.Irr?alisable scientifiquement ? Voire. Car les progr?s des m?thodes pr?visionnelles, statistiques et autres, confondues dans un art baptis? stochastique, permettent ? quelques-uns de jouer les proph?tes.Ainsi en est-il pour Lew N?chols, sp?cialiste de l'art d'emmagasiner et de trier les informations, de dire m?me ce qu'il faut faire pour r?duire l'intervalle d'incertitude entre la pr?vision et la r?alit? future.Intervalle irr?ductible.Sauf pour Carjaval, l'homme qui sait absolument tout de l'avenir. Jusqu'? l'heure et la circonstance de sa mort — Carjaval, proph?te de l'homme ? venir, l'homme stochastique.Robert Silverberg a ?crit ici un ?trange roman o? la libert?, la n?cessit? et les probabilit?s se livrent dans l'avenir proche ? un ballet redoutable avec l'amour, le pouvoir et la mort.
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and finds that doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
Mia? prost? dewiz?: "Cz?owiek umiera, kiedy przyjdzie jego pora, lub kiedy si? doigra!" Kocha? giganta, jako lidera nowego imperium i hodowa? mikrusa, jako lidera nowej partii. ?e nie zawsze wszystko idzie wed?ug planu – zrozumia?, kiedy pu?kownik Heldbaum mu rzek?: – Umrzesz jak ka?dy, na tym polega demokracja…
LIELAIS DARBS JEB BR?NUMSTASTS PAR DOKTORU MEH?NIKUSU UN VI?A SUNI ALMUA.POLE??UKSizdevniec?ba «Liesma» R?ga 1967А. ПолещукВЕЛИКОЕ ДЕЯНИЕ. ИЛИ УДИВИТЕЛЬНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ ДОКТОРА МЕКАНИКУСА И АЛЬМЫ, КОТОРАЯ БЫЛА СОБАКОЙ«Детская литература», Москва 1965Издательство. «Лиесма» На латышском языкеTulkojis O. Kalnciems M?ksliniece L. B ? m a n e
After escaping secret government cells and destroying a Miami landmark, Sylvie's trying to lay low — something that gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But these magical attacks are a risk to bystanders, and Sylvie can't let that slide. When the war between the government and the magical world threatens the three people closest to her — her assistant, her sister, and her lover — Sylvie has no choice but to get involved with hidden powers bent on shaping the world to their liking. Now, with death and disaster on the horizon, even if Sylvie wins, things will never be the same...
When a meteor hits the moon and knocks it closer in orbit to the earth, nothing will ever be the same.Worldwide tidal waves.Earthquakes.Volcanic Eruptions. And that’s just the beginning
From Robert Silverberg’s, “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:Earthly life has developed many methods of reproducing itself. The amoeba is content to split in half; the hydra produces a bud that develops into a new hydra; the small crustacean known as daphnia lays eggs that do not need to be fertilized in order to bring forth young daphnias. Most animals, though, rely on two sexes, female and male, one to produce eggs and the other to fertilize them.The variations within this scheme are great—take, for example, the case of the oyster, which is male at ...
