Августин – блестящий астроном, который отказался от личного счастья и посвятил себя изучению звезд. Салливан, для коллег просто Салли, – астронавт, которая ради миссии на Юпитер пожертвовала семьей и оставила дома маленькую дочь. Их разделяют миллионы километров: за окном обсерватории Августина – бескрайние арктические просторы, за иллюминатором Салли – ледяная пустота космоса. Но однажды их размеренный и устоявшийся быт нарушает непредвиденное: на Земле по необъяснимой причине исчезают все радиосигналы, а Центр управления полетами перестает выходить на связь. В этой пугающе звенящей тишине Августин и Салли задаются одним и тем же вопросом: осталась ли еще хоть одна живая душа во Вселенной? В 2020 году Netflix экранизировал роман с Джорджем Клуни и Фелисити Джонс в главных ролях.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by «A Square», the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Mr. Meek was having his troubles. First, the educated bugs worried him; then the welfare worker tried to stop the Ring Rats' feud by enlisting his aid. And now, he was a drafted space-polo player—a fortune bet on his ability at a game he had never played in his cloistered life.
A drama more fantastic than any the stage had ever produced was being plotted behind the curtains of the Showboat of Space. And between its presentation and inter-world disaster, waiting for his cue, stood only the lone figure of Investigator Neville.
They were marooned on Titan, their ship wrecked, the radio smashed. Yet they had to exist, had to build a new life on a hostile world. And the man who assumed command was Gregory Malcolm, the bespectacled secretary—whose only adventures had come through the pages of a book.
More feared than the deadly green snakes, the hideous red beetles of that outpost of Earth Empire, was the winged dragon queen of Jupiter and her white Legions of Doom!<P> A pulp classic from the «queen of space opera»!
"IT" was the evil spawn of lifeless space, drifting aimlessly until ITs sinister birthing place should come. And finding that abode for life, IT grew, sucking energy from Terra itself—gathering strength for that time when all should flee before ITs malign wrath.
Graed Garroway's empire on Earth was toppling, smashed by the flaming vengeance of Dirk Morris who struck from nowhere with blinding speed and true justice. Yet such a thing could not be—for Dirk Morris was dead, slain at the brutal command of the Black Dictator.
An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will. For to see the terror was to become its slave—a mindless automaton whose only wish was to see behind the shadowed mysterious eyelids of «IT».
Злодей погиб, но дело его живо… запущенный им процесс дестабилизации набирает обороты, получив эффект цепной реакции. Империя ведет тяжелую войну с коалицией враждебных государств, а тут еще внутреннее напряжение возникло. В общем кругом сплошное дерьмо и Экскарту приходится в него окунуться в силу своего статуса, ну и профессии ассенизатора. А кому еще это дерьмо все разгребать, как не ему?