Научная фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Научная фантастикаThe Fear Principle
Dr. Jaguar Addams knows about fear. On a satellite prison called Planetoid Three, she establishes a telepathic link to her subjects. She confronts their demons. And makes them her own . . . They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions. Victims of hard-edged crime demanded hard-wired punishment, and the new prisons were born. Now one determined woman, a survivor of that dark age, tries to rehabilitate killers by tapping into the source of their obsessions: their worst fears. Her name is Jaguar Addams, and she is about to face the most challenging subject of her career. The ultimate assassin. A dangerously disturbed woman who will teach Jaguar the true meaning of fear.
The Great Book of Wonder
NOTE: THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND EXPANDED AS FOLLOWS:<P> – In March 2016, we added 2 more short story collections!<BR> – In April 2016, we added 7 uncollected short stories!<BR> – Includes an interactive table of contents.<BR> – Includes an introduction to «Tales of War» by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer.<P> This mammoth volume of Lord Dunsany's classic short fiction assembles no less than 10 collections into one ebook! Here are:<P> 8 collections of fantasies:<P> – THE GODS OF PEGANA<BR> – TIME AND THE GODS<BR> – THE SWORD OF WELLERAN<BR> – A DREAMER'S TALES<BR> – THE BOOK OF WONDER<BR> – FIFTY-ONE TALES<BR> – THE LAST BOOK OF WONDER<BR> – TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES<P> 2 collections of war-themed tales (some of which are fantasy):<BR> – UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS<BR> – TALES OF WAR<P> 8 rare stories, uncollected in Lord Dunsany's lifetime: – ONE MORE TALE<BR> – THE GERMAN SPY<BR> – THE HEART OF EARTH<BR> – EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY<BR> – THE WAY OF THE WORLD<BR> – THE LITTLE DOINGS OF DEMOS<BR> – THE RETURN OF IBRAHIM<BR> – HOW CARE WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH THE NOMADS<P> This is the greatest single collection of Lord Dunsany's short fiction ever assembled!<P> If you have never read Lord Dunsany's work, you are in for one great experience. His classic, wonder-drenched short fiction has inspired generations of fantasy writers, from H.P. Lovecraft to Ursula K. LeGuin, from George R.R. Martin to L. Sprague de Camp. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: «[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature.» It's true. Lord Dunsany's poetic stories are one of the great wonders of the fantasy field. From flying ships to gods and monsters, from Irish myth to the Greek pantheon, this is the ultimate Lord Dunsany collection, with more than 230 classic works in one volume.
The Merry Men of the Riverworld
When an actor who played Robin Hood on a 1950s children's TV show wakes up in Riverworld, he decides to live out his dreams and forms a new band of Merry Men (including Abraham Lincoln as Little John). Unfortunately, he didn't count on running into Al Capone, who has hijacked a thriving technocracy run by Jules Verne… Set in Philip Jose Farmer's «Riverworld» universe, this novelet was written with Farmer's permission.
Sense of Wonder
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. «Doc» Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross– and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Empire's End (Sten #8)
The Empire is in chaos. The once–great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be. And it is Sten – Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade – who now leads humanity’s fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark source of his former master’s power. Denounced as a traitor, hunted by forces loyal to the Emperor, Sten must risk everything to annihilate the Empire he vowed to protect.
The Wolf Worlds (Sten #2)
Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet «delinq» to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe – a man hailed by his billons of subjects as «The Eternal Emperor.» When the Emperor needs to pacify the Wolf Worlds, the planets of an insignificant cluster that have raised space piracy to a low art, he turns to Mantis Team and its small band of militant problem-solvers. Sten's destiny is in his own hands.
The Asteroid Murder Case
The murder of UN observer Carl Neal on a lonely outpost of the Asteroid Belt would seem to be only a small human tragedy, and yet it opens up vistas both of millennia of time and of unimaginable distances. Inspector Tom Dooley, Chief of Security of the American Sector of the Belt, together with his faithful «Watson,» Ralph Phelps, must sift through the many clues to unravel the mystery of Neal's death–and then keep the aliens from interfering. A first-rate science fiction adventure combined with a classic mystery!
Critical Threshold
They call them the “rat-catchers.” They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship’s biologist, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. <P> Dendra is a stable world, covered by a huge, unchanging forest—except that nothing living can really be free of change. The planet has no seasons, but its animal life still undergoes life-cycles involving birth, maturation, metamorphosis, and death. The Earth colony sent to tame the world has failed, at least in the terms expected of it, and seems beyond redemption; but the crew of the Daedalus still has to find out exactly why and how the program has gone wrong. Provided, of course, that they can survive the investigation itself!
Headset's Artificial Intelligence
Take's place in the near future.Set in San Francisco bay area, someone with some real money, set up in a company of cyber criminals who gain access to everyone's work in the field of A.I. research. They even have a professor from Stanford, Who has been working in the field for all of the 20+years of his career. Now he's at the helm of this mad dash
War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia
Marauders from Mars War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia sheds fresh, Antipodean light on H.G. Wells' original tale in stories that traverse the southern continent.Home to the planet's longest-surviving mysteries, Australia now plays victim to marauding Martians in this outstanding collection of exciting stories set in the past, present and future. Australian Invasion It is well-known that Wells found vital inspiration for his 1897 novel in the horrific plight of Tasmanian Aboriginals who, within his lifetime, were virtually wiped out by the warfare and disease brought by foreign invaders.In Battleground Australia we discover that the war with Mars was not confined to England and did not end with all Martians destroyed by disease. In Australia some of the aliens survived and went underground, to emerge a century or more later. Best Science Fiction A Collection of Australia's best-selling literary, crime and speculative fiction writers including: Kerry Greenwood, Jack Dann, Carmel Bird, Jenny Valentish, Janeen Webb, Sean Williams, Kaaron Warren and Angela Meyer with a foreword by film director Alex Proyas ( The Crow; I, Robot; Gods of Egypt )