Siglo XXI. Un mundo en ruinas gobernado por un viejo y astuto tirano, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. La vida del Khan se mantiene gracias a la habilidad de Sadrac Mordecai, un brillante cirujano negro cuya misi?n es reemplazar los ?rganos deteriorados del presidente.Los m?s modernos aparatos se utilizan para tres proyectos de gran envergadura, uno de ellos, el proyecto Avatar, tiene por objeto lograr la inmortalidad del viejo l?der transfiriendo la mente y la personalidad del Khan a un cuerpo m?s joven.Sadrac descubre que ha sido elegido para ese macabro proyecto, pero logra idear con incre?ble serenidad un peligroso plan para cambiar la faz de la Tierra.Nombrado para el premio Nebula a la mejor novela en 1976.Nombrado para el premio Hugo a la mejor novela en 1977.
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as ...
It has been nearly forty years since Walter M. Miller, Jr., shocked and dazzled readers with his provocative bestseller and enduring classic, Now, in one of the most eagerly awaited publishing events of our time, here is Miller’s masterpiece, an epic intellectual and emotional tour de force that will stand beside 1984, and In a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness—a world torn between love and violence, good and evil—one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter not only his destiny but the destiny of humankind as well….
Robert Silverberg ? uno dei nostri autori preferiti e di questo non ne facciamo certo mistero. La sua versatilit? e la sua bravura sono visibili anche in questo lungo racconto che egli compose in tempi abbastanza lontani (pi? di trenta anni fa) su un futuro oppressivo da cui la gente fugge per tornare a un passato pi? agreste e vivibile.
Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed. For new evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend … and that something astonishing is waiting there. Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counterespionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's onetime partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen. And the trail is pointing him toward Ubar.
?em? i?tiko termobranduolin? katastrofaTei?liko tik saujel? ?moni?, net dykum? sm?lis pasidar? juodas…Gydytoj? vadino Gyvate, nes savo vaistus ji i?gaudavo i? gyva?i?. Bet buvo dar viena, Sapn? Gyvat?, kuri? veis? tik ateiviai.Tams?s ir bail?s ?mon?s u?mu?? Sapn? Gyvat? ir sugriov? gydytojos gyvenim?.Vienintel? viltis — i?keliauti ?ygin ir surasti kit? Sapn? Gyvat?…
Baigiantis XXIV-ajam am?iui ?abado planeton atskrido pirmieji kolonistai.Daugumoje kolonij? nusikalt?liai b?davo arba nu?udomi, arba i?varomi i? bendruomen?s. Ta?iau ?abado pasaulyje buvo nutarta ?kurti planet?-kal?jim?.Nema?ai nusikalt?li? mirdavo. Bet kiekvieneriais metais atkeliaudavo vis nauj?: rausti urv?, ie?koti nauding? i?kasen? ar tiesiog med?ioti nuo?mi? grobuoni? kerit?.
Po kiek laiko ? ?abad? atsikraust? grup? investuotoj?. Jie ?m? ?valgyti planet?, tyrin?ti ir kasin?ti. Netrukus aptiko mil?ini?kasaukso bei sidabro gyslas.I?vyst? b?dus veisti nuo?miuosius keritus — d?l j? ne?tik?tinai gra?aus kailio. O nusikalt?lius pavert? vergais, kuriuos „maitino” dorazino porcijomis, kad jie neprad?tu mai?tauti…
E. NORTONESargasi kosmos?IZDEVNIEC?BA «ZIN?TNE» R?GA 1977A(Amer) No 509Эндрю Нортон СaРГaССЫ В КОСМОСЕ Серия «В мире фантастики» Издательство «Зинатнe» Рига 1977На латышском языке Перенод с английского И. Кундзнньш Предисловие А. Стругацкого и Б. Стругацкого Оформление Э. БуровойNo ang?u valodas tulkojis I. K u n d z i ? ? A. Strugacka un B. Strugacka priek?v?rds Noform?jusi E. B u r o v a(Ј) Tulkojums latvie?u valod? Izdevniec?ba «Zin?tne». 1977PRIEK?V?RDSAmerik??u fantastik? ir vair?ki v?rdi, kuri bauda cie?u sav? dzimten?, bet tikpat k? nav paz?stami aiz t?s robe??m. Iz?emot speci?listus, maz pie mums ir t?...
Dan Thorson by? ?wie?o upieczonym absolwentem akademii kszta?c?cej obs?ug? statk?w kosmicznych. Jednak nie trafi? na statek ?adnej z presti?owych kompanii handlowych. Komputer zaoferowa? mu los wolnego po?rednika.B?d?c najm?odszym cz?onkiem za?ogi statku „Kr?lowa S?o?ca”, Dan trafia na planet? z tajemnicz? przesz?o?ci? by rozwia? mroki jej tera?niejszo?ci.
Sex oozes from every page of this erotic futuristic thriller. In a far-future class-driven android society, most of the populace are slave-chipped and owned by wealthy aristos. When low-caste but unenslaved android Freya offends an aristo and needs to get off-world, she takes a courier position with the mysterious Jeeves Corporation, but the job turns out to have dangers of its own. Designed as a pleasure-module, Freya isn’t quite as obsolete as she could be, as androids have sex with each other incessantly. Hugo-winner Charles Stross has a deep message of how android slavery recapitulates humanity’s past mistakes, but he struggles to make it heard over the moans and gunshots. Readers nostalgic for the SF of the ’60s will find much that’s familiar (including Freya’s jumpsuit-clad form on the cover), but that doesn’t quite compensate for the flaws.
V. Sav?enka gim? 1933 metais Poltavoje. Pagal profesij? jis — in?inierius elektrikas. Eil? met? dirbo mokslinio tyrimo institute, yra i?radimo ir mokslini? darb? puslaidininki? ir mikroelektronikos srityje autorius.B?damas studentu, prad?jo ra?yti fantastinius apsakymus. Pirmoji mokslin? fantastin? apysaka „Juodos ?vaig?d?s” i??jo 1960 metais. Fantastikos rinkiniuose buvo i?spausdinti jo apsakymai „Profesoriaus Berno pabudimas”, „Antroji ekspedicija ? Keist?j? planet?”, nedidel? apysaka „S?km?s algoritmas” ir pjes? „Naujasis ginklas”. Ukrainie?i? kalba i?leistos jo apysakos „Laiko ?m?kla” ir „Talento valanda”.
Son of the Tree begins with the arrival of Joe Smith on the planet Kyril, so distant that Earth is but a myth. Kyril is dominated by a religious aristocracy called "Druids", who rule over the five billon commoner "Laity", and who control worship of the "Tree of Life" – a huge tree with a trunk five miles in diameter, and height of twelve miles. The Druids are xenophobic, and consider Joe to be a spy. For unknown reasons, he is befriended by Hableyat, a native of the world of Mangtse, self-admitted spy who finds him a job as a ...
The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she’s been handpicked for the most important mission of her life — a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited. With the earth capable of sustaining life for just another century, Jenny — as pilot of the starship Montreal — must discover brave new worlds. And with time running out, she must succeed where others have failed.Now Jenny is caught in a desperate battle where old resentments become bitter betrayals and justice takes the cruelest forms of vengeance. With the help of a brilliant AI, an ex — crime lord, and the man she loves, Jenny may just get her chance to save the world. If it doesn’t come to an end first…
