The Windup Girl
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Bacigalupi Paolo (EN)
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Starred Review. Noted short story writer Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories) proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences. Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score. Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year.
Hell Is the Absence of God
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Chiang Ted (EN)
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Фэнтези
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Hugo Best Novelette Winner (2002)
Nebula Best Novelette Winner (2003)
Locus Poll & Awards Best Novelette Winner (2002)
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Shortlist (2002)
Seiun Awards Best Translated Short Story (2004)
Dreamsnake
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McIntyre Vonda N. (EN)
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An award-winning novel set in the post-apocalyptic future follows a young woman who travels the earth healing the sick with the help of her alien companion, the dreamsnake, pursued by two implacable followers. Nuclear war, biotechnology, alternate sex patterns, and other-worldly tribalism put in appearances.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1978.
Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1979.
Won Locus Award for Best Novel in 1979.
The Martian Child
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Gerrold David (EN)
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From the Sept. 94 issue of Magazine of Fantasy & Science
(r) copyright 1994, by David Gerrold. All rights reserved.
David Gerrold, CIS: 70307,544
Nebula and Hugo Awards winner
Ringworld
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Niven Larry (EN)
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Ringworld
#1
Язык книги: Английский
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
Rendezvous with Rama
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Clarke Arthur Charles (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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Rama
#1
Язык книги: Английский
Nebula Best Novel winner (1974)
Hugo Best Novel winner (1974)
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind’s first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams… and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits—just behind a Raman airlock door.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Chabon Michael (EN)
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Альтернативная история
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Язык книги: Английский
The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won a number of science fiction awards: the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Best Novel. It was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
Gateway
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Pohl Frederik (EN)
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Heechee Saga
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Язык книги: Английский
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe… and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
Won:
Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1977;
Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978;
Locus Award for Best Novel in 1978;
John W. Campbell Award in 1978.
Beggars in Spain
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Kress Nancy (EN)
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Sleepless
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Язык книги: Английский
In 21st-century America, genetic engineering makes it possible for those who can afford it to become parents of improved, custom-made babies. The controversial procedure has produced a new breed that can function without sleep. Leisha Camden, daughter of a wealthy industrialist, is one of "the sleepless," who are endowed with remarkable intelligence and other genetic enhancements. A generation of prodigies, Leisha and her peers are resented by the rest of the population, who begin to persecute them. To escape violence, the Sleepless retreat to an armed camp, the Sanctuary, where for decades they fight to legitimize their existence in an increasingly hostile society. Leisha, a brilliant, idealistic lawyer, finds herself ostracized by both Sleepers and Sleepless as she struggles to bridge the widening gulf between the two groups. Meanwhile, the Sleepless must learn to deal with the prodigies among them. Kress competently handles a well-worn science fiction concept and raises some intriguing scientific and sociological issues.
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993.
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1994.
Время как спираль из полудрагоценных камней (Время, точно низка самоцветов)
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Дилэни Сэмюэль Рэй
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"Небьюла"-1969 и "Хьюго"-1970
Neuromancer 16+
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Gibson William (EN)
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Sprawl
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Язык книги: Английский
Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....
Царица небес (Царица ветров и тьмы, Царица воздуха)
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Андерсон Пол Уильям
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Mendigos En España
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Kress Nancy (EN)
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Premios Hugo y Nebula 1992
En el año 2019 aparecen unos nuevos seres humanos: los Insomnes, quienes, modificados por la ingeniería genética para no tener que dormir, disponen de mayor conocimiento y poder, pues cuentan con más horas de actividad, y son, asimismo, longevos. El recelo de los Durmientes y su enfrentamiento con los Insomnes es inevitable. De estos últimos, algunos son partidarios de protegerse y piensan que, en el fondo, nada deben a los Durmientes, los nuevos mendigos del futuro cercano.
Медленная скульптура (Живая скульптура)
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Старджон Теодор Гамильтон
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Neuromante
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Gibson William (EN)
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Язык книги: Испанский
«El cielo sobre el puerto era del color de la televisión, sintonizada en un canal muerto.» El primer enunciado de la novela de Gibson establece el tono de esta historia ultramoderna de gente que se mueve en un paisaje electrónico. Siguiendo las huellas de Alfred Bester, William Burroughs y (tal vez) Samuel R. Delany, pero inspirándose en los sueños del Silicon Valley, el autor ha creado un thriller romántico y triste, tan actual como los juegos de video, los trasplantes de órganos y la investigación sobre inteligencia artificial, todo lo cual tiene su papel en la narración. Es un libro ágil, sólidamente escrito, ingeniosamente inventivo, ocasionalmente divertido y siempre poético, a veces desconcertante y tan bien ajustado como un circuito de microchip. Tiene algunos de los defectos previsibles en un primer libro: efectos algo forzados y una complejidad excesiva que una y otra vez entorpece la línea narrativa. Pero son defectos propios de una ambición auténtica y de un talento exuberante. El héroe, Case, es un vaquero computarizado, con cultura callejera. Gracias a la utilización de su sofisticado equipo electrónico del mundo del siglo XXI, es capaz de entrar en el «ciberespacio», un área donde la información acumulada de los circuitos de ordenadores del planeta adquiere una realidad aparentemente tridimensional. Moviéndose en el ciberespacio, puede alterar los programas de computación y penetrar en la memoria de los bancos comerciales para robar valiosos datos.
Home Is the Hangman
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Zelazny Roger Joseph (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
The Persistence of Vision
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Varley John Herbert (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories 16+
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Asimov Isaac (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by any other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame fortune—and danger. For a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die...In the Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov returns to his first and most enduring love—robotics. The result is a brilliant book of first-class entertainment and mind-spinning ideas which confirm Asimov's supreme status as Grand Master of science fiction.
Последний замок (Сборник)
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Вэнс Джек Холбрук
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В шестой том серии "Библиотека фантастики” вошли четыре романа американского писателя Джека Венса - яркого представителя жанра "фэнтэзи".Для широкого круга читателей.Содержание:Последний замок. /The Last Castle/. Повесть получила премии "Хьюго" (1967) и "Небьюла" (1966)Дома Исзма. /Дома Иззоома /The Houses of Iszm/Сын Древа. /Сын дерева /Son of the Tree/Умирающая Земля. /The Dying Earth/
The Forever War
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Haldeman Joe William (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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Язык книги: Английский
The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass.
Won Nebula Award in 1975.
Won Hugo and Locus Awards in 1976.