Slow River
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Griffith Nicola (EN)
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The Nebula Award Winner–1996
She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families… and now she was nobody, and she had to hide.
Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped… but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.
Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner… and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future.
But to start again, Lore required Spanner’s talents—Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner’s game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be…
Solitude
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Le Guin Ursula Kroeber (EN)
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51726
Язык книги: Английский
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
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McIntyre Vonda N. (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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37133
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A Time of Changes
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Silverberg Robert (EN)
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340362
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Nebula Best Novel Winner (1972)
Hugo Best Novel Nominee (1972)
Locus Awards Best Novel Nominee [#3] (1972)
Ditmar Awards International SF Nominee (1972)
Prometheus Awards Hall of Fame Nominee (2005)
If the Stars Are Gods
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Benford Gregory (EN)
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69916
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Man searched a long time for alien life, until finally it found him. The aliens put their ship into orbit around the moon, peacably ignoring frantic human excitement, and asked to see someone who knew the stars. Earth sent Bradley Reynolds, 52, officially retired, a man who knew the stars as well as any man could. But the aliens wanted more than Reynolds could give. They wanted to know whether the sun loves us.
For Bradley Reynolds, it was the beginning of a life-long quest for alien intelligence, for beings who could speak to him with that wonderful Otherness. On Mars, on Jupiter, on Titan he would find hints of what he sought, and what he would find in the end was a tranformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream.
Последняя виннебаго
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Уиллис Конни
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94053
Живая скульптура (Медленная скульптура)
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Старджон Теодор Гамильтон
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Небьюла 1970 года
Хьюго 1971 года
'Мне жаль, Арлекин !' - сказал часовщик ("Покайся, Арлекин!" — сказал Тиктакщик)
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Эллисон Харлан
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17484
Фонтаны рая. Научно-фантастический роман
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Кларк Артур Чарльз
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281961
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Зарубежная фантастика
#1981
Новый роман крупнейшего английского писателя фантаста, ученого и популяризатора науки. Основную канву романа составляет сооружение «космического лифта» для связи со спутником, находящимся постоянно над одной точкой Земли.
Incontro con Rama
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Clarke Arthur Charles (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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336926
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Rama
#1
Язык книги: Итальянский
Come sarà il nostro primo incontro con una razza, una civiltà extraterrestre? Gli scettici dicono: non ci sarà mai. I pessimisti obiettano: già non riusciamo ad andare d'accordo fra noi, figurarsi con gli alieni. Nondimeno, milioni di uomini continuano a fantasticare appassionatamente su quel tema, e decine di scrittori a esplorarne tutte le varianti possibili. Questo Rama, questo corpo estraneo che si presenta un giorno nel nostro cielo, questo cilindro grandioso che è astronave, relitto, museo, enigmatica e solenne cattedrale, si può considerare una delle invenzioni di maggior fascino mai create dalla fantascienza. E la bravura di Clarke, maestro di verosimiglianza cosmica, sta nel persuaderci col suo inimitabile piglio insieme avventuroso e scientifico, che si tratta anche di un'invenzione tutt'altro che «impossibile». Che proprio così andranno forse le cose, quando scoccherà l'ora del primo incontro.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
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Tiptree jr. James (EN)
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Современная проза
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98116
Язык книги: Английский
The most notable story is again an investigation into the gulf between the sexes. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" won both the Hugo (in a tie with Spider Robinson's "By Any Other Name") and Nebula awards as the best novella published in 1976. In it a crew of three American astronauts are caught up in an intense solar storm which apparently propels them through a time vortex into a world several hundred years into their future. A devastating plague has reduced the human population to just a few thousand, all female, whose only means of reproduction is the cloning of several basic genome types.
The Day before the Revolution
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Le Guin Ursula Kroeber (EN)
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27657
Язык книги: Английский
This Nebula and Locus Award winner focuses on the bittersweet ruminations of an old woman who began a social movement in her youth, and the culmination of her life as a public figure on the day before the Revolution begins. Nebula Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee
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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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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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)
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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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658163
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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
Прогулка
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Лейбер Фриц Ройтер
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Even the Queen
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Willis Connie (EN)
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28305
Язык книги: Английский