The City and The City
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Mieville China (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder.
Царица воздуха (Царица ветров и тьмы, Царица небес)
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Андерсон Пол Уильям
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Колонизировавшие планету Роланд земляне не обнаружили разумных форм жизни на пригодном для жизни участке суши. За сто с небольшим лет пребывания на Роланде люди, стремясь жить рядом с теми, кто им ближе по происхождению или образу мысли, уже успели сформировать региональные акценты. Кто-то остался в миллионом городе, кто-то превратился в дальнопоселенца и ушел подальше от цивилизации, полностью ударившись в сельское хозяйство. Все было хорошо на планете, вот только дети слишком уж часто пропадали… Из лагеря, обнесенного детекторами и сигнальными системами, охраняемого сторожевыми мастифами, куда никто не мог проникнуть незамеченным, пропадает малыш. Мать пропавшего ребенка нанимает сыщика, цепляясь за последнюю надежду найти хотя бы останки малыша. А сыщик попался непростой, залетная птица с другой планеты, лишенный предрассудков перед «сказками с окраин цивилизации»...
Враг мой (Сборник)
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Лонгиер Барри
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Speaker for the dead
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Card Orson Scott (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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The Ender Quintet
#2
Язык книги: Английский
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told of the true story of the Bugger War.Now long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens’ ways are strange and frightening…again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery…and the truth.
The Windup Girl
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Bacigalupi Paolo (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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675596
Язык книги: Английский
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.
Doomsday Book
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Willis Connie (EN)
Страниц: 147
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931736
Язык книги: Английский
This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Connie Willis (Lincoln's Dreams) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to a 14th-century English village, despite a host of misgivings on the part of her unofficial tutor. When the technician responsible for the procedure falls prey to a 21st-century epidemic, he accidentally sends Kivrin back not to 1320 but to 1348 — right into the path of the Black Death. Unaware at first of the error, Kivrin becomes deeply involved in the life of the family that takes her in. But before long she learns the truth and comes face to face with the horrible, unending suffering of the plague that would wipe out half the population of Europe. Meanwhile, back in the future, modern science shows itself infinitely superior in its response to epidemics, but human nature evidences no similar evolution, and scapegoating is still alive and well in a campaign against "infected foreigners." This book finds villains and heroes in all ages, and love, too, which Kivrin hears in the revealing and quietly touching deathbed confession of a village priest. (Publishers Weekly)
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1992
Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1993
Startide Rising
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Brin David (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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Uplift
#2
Язык книги: Английский
Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1984
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1983
Even the Queen
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Willis Connie (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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28305
Язык книги: Английский
The Rise of Endymion
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Simmons Dan (EN)
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1253354
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Hyperion Cantos
#4
Язык книги: Английский
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples.
But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.
Ilium
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Simmons Dan (EN)
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Эпическая фантастика
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Troy
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Язык книги: Английский
Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping off point Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in agodlike fashion. This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF and marks a return to the genre for one of its greats.
Boneshaker
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Priest Cherie (EN)
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598934
Язык книги: Английский
Early in the American Civil War, rumors of gold in the Klondike have brought would-be prospectors to North America’s Pacific Northwest. Anxious Russian investors commission American inventor Leviticus Blue to create a machine which can mine through the ice of Russian-owned Alaska. Blue’s “Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine” (or “Boneshaker” for short, named after boneshaker bicycles of the era), instead destroys several blocks of downtown Seattle and releases a subterranean vein of “blight gas” that turns anyone who breathes it into a species of zombie. (Wikipedia)
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010.
Hell Is the Absence of God
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Chiang Ted (EN)
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Фэнтези
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Язык книги: Английский
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)
Будущее уже началось: Что ждет каждого из нас в XXI веке?
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Стерлинг Брюс
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Публицистика
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Нынешнему поколению суждено увидеть мир, который будет совершенно не похож на наш. Совершив настоящий прорыв в будущее, известный писатель-фантаст Брюс Стерлинг рассказывает о том, как изменится мир в ближайшие пятьдесят лет. Взяв за основу известный монолог Шекспира, Стерлинг посвящает каждую главу своей книги одной из семи сцен в драме человеческой жизни: детству, школе, любви, войне, политике, работе и старости. Рассматривая проблему с нескольких сторон, Стерлинг делится с читателями своими остроумными и неожиданными наблюдениями по поводу роли биотехнологий, информационных сетей, армии, передовых технологий и многого другого в деле становления постчеловечества. Он также анализирует произведения других футурологов (Кевина Келли, Лоренса Лессига и Стюарта Бранда) и знакомит читателя с политическими движениями, способными спровоцировать будущие войны. Параллельно писатель затрагивает многие животрепещущие вопросы современности, в том числе генетические исследования, глобальное потепление, биотеррор.
The Sword of the Lictor
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Wolfe Gene (EN)
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Book of the New Sun
#3
Язык книги: Английский
Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts as son only to lose him in battle, discharges an old debt to vengeance, encounters fanged aliens who hide behind masks of beauty, and helps the people of the floating islands in their unending battle for freedom.
Won British Fantasy Award in 1983.
Won Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1983.
Nominated for BSFA Award in 1982.
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982.
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.
Nominated for World Fantasy Award in 1983.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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Gaiman Neil (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
This is a stunning collection of short stories by acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. His distinctive genius has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The Sandman Neil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated, intelligent, and influential graphic novel series of our time. Now after the recent success of his latest novel Anansi Boys, Gaiman has produced Fragile Things, his second collection of short fiction. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.
Mirror Dance
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Bujold Lois Mcmaster (EN)
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775805
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Barrayar
#9
Язык книги: Английский
Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother was the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Barrayar much about the perils of sexism. Even the fact that Miles is the third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him.
When assassins came to rid the world of his father, his mother, pregnant with Miles, was in the line of fire, and Miles was but an egg for the omelet in an all too literal sense. Thanks to heroic medical intervention, Miles survived his near fatal brush with war gas—as a pain-filled dwarf with bones as weak and brittle as some malign composite of chalk and glass. Miles is often mistaken for a mutant by his mutant-loathing countrymen.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Doctorow Cory (EN)
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229611
Язык книги: Английский
A novel by Cory Doctorow:
Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.
Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the care of a network of volunteer "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.
Now, though, it seems the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war: war for the soul of the Magic Kingdom, a war of ever-shifting reputations, technical wizardry, and entirely unpredictable outcomes.
Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and human insight, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom reads like Neal Stephenson meets Nick Hornby: a coming-of-age romantic comedy and a kick-butt cybernetic tour de force.
On Wings of Song
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Disch Thomas M. (EN)
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Научная фантастика
Страниц: 76
Символов:
496532
Язык книги: Английский
In his seventh novel, Disch reaches a literary high point in the field of science fiction. At once hilarious and frightening, it follows Daniel Weinreb as he attempts to escape the repressive laws and atmosphere of the isolationist State of Iowa. A rich black comedy of bizarre sexual ambiguity and adventurism, a bitter satire that depicts a near-future America falling into worsening economic and social crisis.Won John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1980.Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1979.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.
Dreamsnake
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McIntyre Vonda N. (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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449248
Язык книги: Английский
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 Snow Queen
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Vinge Joan (EN)
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848309
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The Snow Queen
#1
Язык книги: Английский
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981.
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.