Историческая фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Историческая фантастика
Euth Camp
A senior living in the future finds that he is on the wrong side of the law and has become a criminal because of his outdated convictions. His entire mindset and lifestyle have made him a “person of interest” to the rulers of the new world in which he lives. Progressively marginalized almost to the point of extinction by new laws and requirements of an all-powerful government, his life is difficult. As he goes about doing what he needs to do to survive, he finds himself instructing and helping many normal everyday people who oppose the state mandate requiring all to be branded with a mark in their hand or forehead. Clinging to an old Book, which has long been a capital offense to own or disseminate, he finds that its words give him comfort and understanding. He is eventually arrested and taken to a state-run compound for “rehabilitation”. There he discovers the mysterious power that the words of the Book have, as he becomes the leader of a prison escape and mass exodus to the mountains. So begins the greatest testing of his faith that he has ever known.
Гатарианцы
Теория Большого взрыва – это не только популярный американский ситком, продержавшийся целых 12 лет, но также одна из гипотез происхождения нашей Вселенной. После того как что-то там рвануло в космосе 14 миллиардов лет назад, не сразу, но появилась Земля, вполне себе пригодная для жизни планета. Пропустим эволюцию со всеми ее существующими и несуществующими стадиями, но когда наш далекий прапра- взял в руки палку, чтобы сбить с ветки банан или, что более вероятно, запустить ее в ближнего, на Землю прилетели гатарианцы – наставлять, просвещать, осуществлять, если надо, полицейские функции, короче – делать все, чтобы уберечь человечество от нового Большого взрыва, способного уничтожить цивилизацию. Вы готовы к встрече с гатарианцами? А может быть, гатарианец сидит внутри вас? Как бы там ни было, стоит присмотреться и к себе, и к другим. И да – не выпускайте палку из рук! Ну, это так, на всякий случай. Содержит нецензурную брань.
Отморозки: Новый эталон
Над Россией сгущаются тучи. Слишком большая территория, слишком много ресурсов, слишком слаба власть, чтобы удержать разрываемую в клочья державу. Можно ли всё изменить и не залить страну кровью, можно ли примирить кровных врагов: большевиков и царскую семью? Можно ли вообще чтото сделать? Два человека, попавших из нашего времени во времена революционных преобразований, сделают это и ещё много невозможных вещей, потому, что они не отступают и не сдаются. Потому что они русские, к тому же полные отморозки. © Земляной А., Орлов Б., 2020 © & ℗ ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2020 Продюсер аудиозаписи: Татьяна Плюта
The American Shore
<P>The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Roland Barthes' commentary on Balzac's Sarazine, and Grabinier's reading of The Heart of Hamlet, this book-length essay helped prove the genre worthy of serious investigation. The American Shore is the third in a series of influential critical works by Samuel R. Delany, beginning with The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and Starboard Wine, first published in the late seventies and reissued over the last five years by Wesleyan University Press, which helped win Delany a Pilgrim Award for Science Fiction Scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association of America. This edition includes the author's corrected text as well as a new introduction by Delany scholar Matthew Cheney.</P>
Starboard Wine
<P>In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific «difference,» we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.</P>
Einstein Intersection
<P>The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are «different» must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are «different» try to seize history and the day.</P>
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
<P>Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.</P>
On Joanna Russ
<P>Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, «Criticism and Community,» gives readers a context for and overview of Russ's works, and includes discussions of Russ's role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second part, «Fiction,» offers detailed analyses of some of Russ's writing. </P><P>Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James, Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, Jen&#233;a Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat Wheeler, Tess Williams, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.</P>