Hell Is the Absence of God
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Chiang Ted (EN)
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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)
Rite of Passage
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Panshin Alexei (EN)
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Научная фантастика
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In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero’s Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Mia Havero’s Trial is fast approaching and in the meantime she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world. Published originally in 1968, Alexei Panshin’s Nebula Award-winning classic has lost none of its relevance, with its keen exploration of societal stagnation and the resilience of youth.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1968.
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969.
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.
Valiant
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Black Holly (EN)
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Modern Tale of Faerie
#2
Язык книги: Английский
When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
The Terminal Experiment
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Sawyer Robert J. (EN)
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The Terminal Experiment has propelled Robert J. Sawyer into the limelight as one of science fiction's hot new writers, earning him the prestigious Nebula Award in the process. In this fast-paced thriller, Dr. Peter Hobson’s investigations into death and afterlife lead him to create three separate electronic versions of himself: one has no memory of physical existence and represents life after death; one has no knowledge of death or aging and represents immortality; and the third is left unaltered as a control. But all three have escaped into the worldwide matrix... and one of them is a killer.
The story was first serialised in Analog magazine in the mid-December 1994 to March 1995 issues, under the name Hobson’s Choice, before its first novel publication in May, 1995.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1995.
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996.
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
Stations of the Tide
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Swanwick Michael (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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Язык книги: Английский
As the planet Miranda slowly drowns under the weight of its own tides, a bureaucrat from the Division of Technology Transfer conducts an investigation into the life of a local celebrity, a “magician” who possesses proscribed technology and whose personal powers hold much of the dying planet in thrall.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1992.
Nominated for Hugo and Campbell awards in 1992.
Nominated for Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1993.
Ringworld
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Niven Larry (EN)
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Космическая фантастика
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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!
The Claw of the Conciliator
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Wolfe Gene (EN)
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Book of the New Sun
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Язык книги: Английский
Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wonderful ways. Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner’s sword, Terminus Est.
Won Nebula Award for Best novel in 1981.
Won Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1982.
Nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy Awards in 1982.
Man Plus
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Pohl Frederik (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster — a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1976.
Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and Campbell awards in 1977.
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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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
Tehanu The Last Book of Earthsea
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Le Guin Ursula Kroeber (EN)
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Earthsea Cycle
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Язык книги: Английский
Book Four of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Once, when they were young, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger and shared an adventure like no other. Now they must join forces again, to help another in need -- the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
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....
Лица его, пламенники пасти его ( Врата его лика, факелы его уст; Двери лица его, пламенники пасти его)
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Желязны Роджер Джозеф
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Царица небес (Царица ветров и тьмы, Царица воздуха)
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Андерсон Пол Уильям
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Твоя навеки - Анна
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Вильгельм Кейт
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