Le 21e si?cle. Demain.Cinquante hommes et cinquante femmes, repr?sentant les nations majeures et toutes les disciplines scientifiques, embarquent ? bord de l’Ar?s, un immence vaisseau spatial, un micro-monde o? ils vont vivre pendant plus d’un an avant d’atteinde Mars, ? cent millions de kilom?tres de l?. Un homme, d?j?, a pos? le pied sur Mars : John Boone. H?ros mythique depuis son retour sur Terre, il s’est port? volontaire pour ce second voyage.Un voyage aller, sans espoir de retour vers la Terre.Car les hommes et les ...
Mars la rouge… Les hommes ont d?barqu? sur un nouveau monde, qu’ils ont entrepris de modifier pour le rendre habitable. C’est une utopie ? long terme : cr?er une atmosph?re, changer les d?serts et les crat?res arides en prairies, la glace des p?les en fleuves, en mers.Mais les hommes et les femmes ont chang?s, eux aussi. Depuis leur r?volution, durement r?prim?e, de 2061, les Cent Premiers sur Mars se sont dispers?s sur toute l’?tendue de la plan?te. Certains, constructeurs de villes radieuses, vivent au grand ...
Marte ha crecido. Ha sido completamente terraformado —plantas y animales transg?nicos— viven a orillas de los canales y mares tormentosos que han aparecido en los ?ltimos a?os. Marte es ahora un planeta pol?ticamente independiente. La mayor?a de los Primeros Cien est?n muertos; los que quedan son los Mitos vivientes de los j?venes marcianos…Mientras tanto la Tierra ha crecido demasiado. Nacionalismo rabioso, recursos naturales escasos… demasiado gente… Marte parece un utop?a burlona, un sue?o inalcanzable, para vivir, para luchar, tal vez, para morir. Un libro hermoso, para vivirlo por dentro. Que sea cierto.
Marte rojo ya no existe, fue destruido por la fallida revoluci?n del 2062. Una generaci?n m?s tarde, Marte verde ha sido terraformado y areoformado. Pero tambi?n hay otros que quieren explotar las riquezas minerales de Marte, las materias primas que la Tierra necesita. La nueva generaci?n de colonos est? expuesta a insurrecciones, conflictos y pruebas. Sobrevivientes de los Primeros Cien, entre ellos Hiroko, Nadia, Maya y Simon, saben que la tecnolog?a no es suficiente. La creaci?n de un nuevo mundo requiere confianza y colaboraci?n, pero esas cualidades son tan escasas como el aire mismo que respiran en Marte…Tengo la impresi?n que Kim Stanley Robinson fue uno de los primeros colonos en Marte, y que ha regresado para contarnos la historia en esta brillante nueva novela.
? il problema pi? Delicato che lei abbai mai dovuto affrontare: da una parte la vecchia Terra e dall’altra un Mondo Vergine, una civilt? enigmatica, aliena oltre i limiti. L’ambasciatrice ? sola e deve Decidere. Forse contro di loro, forse contro se stessa.
A tale of revenge and technological endeavor set on our solar system’s most desolate stage. The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. The planet’s surface faces the sun for nearly sixty earth days at a time, and the only places that stay cool are the ice caches at Mercury’s poles.
Kosmiczna winda wywo??ca na orbit? towary i ludzi to projekt in?ynieryjny istniej?cy od XX wieku, teraz wreszcie staje si? rzeczywisto?ci?. Dla in?yniera Bracknella jest ona dzie?em ?ycia, ale dla wielkich korporacji, kt?re na tanim transporcie na orbit? strac? maj?tki, oraz dla Nowej Moralno?ci, dla kt?rej budowa wie?y w niebo jest obraz? Boga, stanowi? cier? w boku. Zostaje zawi?zany spisek i wie?a runie w d??, grzebi?c w globalnej katastrofie miliony ludzi. Winnym zostanie uznany Bracknell, kar? jest wygnanie Ziemi. In?ynier traci dorobek ca?ego ?ycia, ale przypadkiem dowiaduje si? o sabota?u i spisku i od tej pory ca?e swoje ?ycie podporz?dkowuje jednemu — zem?cie na osobach winnych zniszczenia wie?y i jego osobistej tragedii.
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother’s financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.Welcome to , the sequel to Marusek’s stunning debut novel, , which called “ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny.”
Former astronaut Paul Stavenger is driven by his vision of colonizing space. His dream becomes a reality with the creation of a viable, flourishing, nearly self-sufficient community at Moonbase. But Paul has made an implacable enemy; one who will carry his vendetta to the frontiers of space.
A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars’ oldest colonizing families — both involved in the student uprising of 2171 — see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn.Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and John F. Campbell Memorial Awards in 1994.
Ninguna especie en todo el universo ha alcanzado las estrellas sin la ayuda de un gu?a, excepto quiz? la raza humana. ?Existi? hace muchos eones una extra?a raza que dio inicio al desarrollo de la humanidad? Y si as? fue, ?por qu? nos abandon??Cercando el Sol, en las cavernas de Mercurio, la expedici?n Navegante Solar se prepara para realizar el viaie m?s trascendental de la historia de la humanidad. Un viaie al sofocante infierno del Sol. All? se han detectado formas de vida desconocidas que podr?an ser la raza primigenia, los aut?nticos antepasados del hombre.Para encontrar respuestas a todos esos interrogantes, respuestas de las que depender? el futuro de la humanidad en relaci?n con las avanzadas civilizaciones existentes en el universo, ser? necesario sumergirse en el ardiente coraz?n de una estrella llamada Sol.
Two alien races lived under a single sun, someplace across the galaxy, sharing their world… sharing life itself. For they lived together in a partnership more perfect than any other known to the intelligences of the galaxy. Together, the two races became one, each deriving from the other that which made him greater than his individual self. Host and symbiote, they lived together, shared together… two bodies in one. For the one race was symbiotic, amorphous, able to enter the body of the other.Then one symbiote turned Criminal, and his race could not rest until he was tracked down. But the Criminal could hide in any living thing… and on Earth there were over two billion humans alone!HAL CLEMENT blends a masterpiece of science fiction with a story of pure detection to produce his best novel, and one of the most famous s-f novels of the past quarter-century.
Ogni 76 anni ritorna uno dei pi? affascinanti e misteriosi visitatori che l’umanit? ricordi: la Cometa di Halley. Il suo passaggio pi? recente ? ancora fresco nella memoria, ma questo straordinario romanzo ci parla del prossimo appuntamento, e della spedizione di un gruppo di scienziati su Halley, non solo per scoprirne i misteri, ma per trasformarla in un luogo adatto alla vita. Tra meraviglie tecnologiche e sforzi sovrumani di adattamento, i segreti sepolti nel cuore della cometa (tutt’altro che priva di forme di vita) trasformano un immane progetto di colonizzazione in una spietata lotta per la sopravvivenza. Tuttavia, le ...
Not every fallen angel comes from heaven... The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night. In such desperate times the last thing the ...
It all starts when a man comes to deliver a message to Frank Compton—only to fall dead at his feet. What follows is a suspenseful thriller that only Timothy Zahn, a master of hard SF adventure, could have written.More than two hundred years from now, the Quadrail transportation system run by the enigmatic Spiders connects civilizations throughout the galaxy. But someone is threatening the entire system and the worlds it serves with a military force that could wreak interstellar havoc. Worse yet, a more subtle and sinister threat lurks: the Modhri, whose unique coral is prized ...
The discovery of stroon, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich, so rich that, when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys the Earth. is pen name of an American author (1913–1966).Portions of this novel have been previously published under the following titles: (aka )1964;1968 (posthumous edition). was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965.
