En Borthan, un planeta colonizado cientos de a?os atr?s, la humanidad vive en paz, sin embargo el precio pagado parece demasiado elevado: nada es considerado m?s obsceno que el compartir los propios sentimientos con otro humano, y se ha prohibido el uso de la palabra “yo”. Kinnall Darival es un hombre que lo tiene todo en la vida para ser feliz. Solo una cosa le perturba: las convenciones sociales le impiden expresar sus sentimientos a la persona amada. Cuando conoce a Scxhweiz, un comerciante de la Tierra, este le ofrece una sustancia m?gica capaz de derribar los muros entre las almas de los hombres. El sistema de valores de Darival se trastoca y experimenta cada vez m?s dudas que le conducir?n a ser un proscrito entre los suyos y a provocar el dolor entre aquellos a los que ama.
Cuando llega el invierno, los mutantes se re?nen… Siempre han vivido en la sombra, pero cerca de la sociedad normal. Ignorados, marginados, han sobrevivido recluidos en clanes invisibles, usando sus extraordinarias facultades ps?quicas para escudarse contra la intolerancia, en fanatismo y el aborrecimiento que inspira a los normales, hasta ahora…El primer l?der mutante, que ha emergido a la luz para reclamar iguales derechos que el resto de los mortales, es asesinado.Encontrar al asesino es la dif?cil misi?n de un grupo de mutantes. Entre ellos est?n Michael, confuso entre la lealtad al clan y su amor por una persona normal; Melanie, sola entre los mutantes y rechazada por los normales; y Jean, que usa su poder ps?quico y su sexualidad de mutante para obtener todo aquello que m?s desea.Como sociedad deben luchar contra su entorno, ocultando sus miedos hasta encontrar un medio que proteja sus intimidades, sus amores y sus vidas.
La joven Maia, una descastada nacida en verano, debe abandonar el clan de sus privilegiadas medio hermanas clones nacidas en invierno. Su dif?cil y peligroso viaje inici?tico arranca en los muelles de Puerto Sanger y prosigue a bordo de uno de los barcos tripulados por los escasos hombres (menos de un veinte por ciento) que forman la poblaci?n de Stratos, un mundo creado por y para las mujeres. S?lo el dif?cil y lejano ?xito le permitir? ser la fundadora de un nuevo clan. Las manipulaciones gen?ticas de la Madre Fundadora Lysos han creado en Stratos un mundo nuevo y distinto, dominado por mujeres que se reproducen por clonaci?n. Una nueva opci?n sociopol?tica, tecnol?gica, ecol?gica y, sobre todo, en el ?mbito de la relaci?n entre ambos sexos. En la senda de la literatura que denuncia las relaciones entre los sexos o propone establecer nuevos v?nculos, se une a obras ya clasicas como de Ursula K. Le Guin.
is set on Earth, the inner part of the Solar System and various other universes onwards from the 21 century. The novel covers a wide range of topics, including the Doomsday argument, Fermi paradox, genetic engineering, and humanity’s extinction.The book begins at the end of space and time, when the last descendants of humanity face an infinite but pointless existence. Due to proton decay the physical universe has collapsed, but some form of intelligence has survived by embedding itself into a lossless computing substrate where it can theoretically survive indefinitely. However, since there will never be new ...
Without setting foot on another planet, people like Shep Blaine were reaching out to the stars with their minds, telepathically contacting strange beings on other worlds. But even Blaine was unprepared for what happened when he communed with the soul of an utterly alien being light years from Earth. After recovering from his experience, he becomes a dangerous man: not only has he gained startling new powers — but he now understands that humankind must share the stars. Hunted through time and space by those who he used to trust, Blaine undergoes a unique odyssey that takes him through a nightmarish version of small-town America as he seeks to find others who share his vision of a humane future. Blaine has mastered death and time. Now he must master the fear and ignorance that threatened to destroy him!Serialized in as in 1961. Later published by Doubleday as .Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962.
A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel hundreds of thousands of years into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a British army action to repress a local uprising. And to a terrifying intervention by a squadron of tanks from 2137. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in Kipling, his friends and the tanks are, themselves flung back to the 4th century and the midst of Alexander the Great’s army. Mankind’s time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage to China. And it will present mankind with two devastating truths. Aliens are amongst us and have been manipulating our past and our future. And that future extends only as far as 2137 for that is the date Earth will be destroyed. This is SF that spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on time travel and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre's masters at their groundbreaking best.
Amazon.com ReviewProduct DescriptionSuspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It’s 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It’s 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story’s perspective toggles between ...
Tinker, girl genius and inventor, lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which exists mostly in the land of the elves, where she tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with her gadgets. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrapyard, life as she knows it takes a detour.
K?tet?nk k?t szovjet tudom?nyos-fantasztikus reg?nyt foglal egybe. A Tit?nok ?tja a messzi j?v?be, a tudom?ny ?ltal megh?d?tott, emberlakta bolyg?-vil?gba vezet el. B?tor kutat?k ?rrak?t?j?ra ?lteti az olvas?t, s t?voli tej?trendszerek ismeretlen embereivel szembes?ti. A m?sik reg?ny, A fekete oszlop, egy f?ldtani katasztr?fa tudom?nyos megf?kez?s?nek izgalmas t?rt?net?t eleven?ti meg, szinte filmszer? l?tv?nyoss?ggal. Mindk?t t?rt?net ezernyi meglepet?ssel, l?legzetel?ll?t? fesz?lts?ggel bilincseli le az olvas?t, s ad k?zben k?pzeletmozgat? rajzot a j?v?r?l s a j?v? lehetetlent nem ismer? h?seir?l.
This historical generational horror/suspense/science fiction novel defies genre classification as it has intrigue and terror.It is a Centenary retelling of the story to destroy all the false legends surrounding . “From a master of terror and suspense,” according to Clive Cussler, author of , herein lies a compelling reason that forces Captain Edward J. Smith to scuttle his own ship—RMS .What dark secret prompts such an action on the part of a veteran, retiring captain on a ship’s maiden voyage? What prompts men a hundred years later to pillage the wreck of the ? What secret lies buried within the lost ship—a secret that could destroy all life as we know it?The answers are unveiled in April 1912 and in April 2012… and there will be blood…
