Recept élet-halálhoz:
“Végy egy világot, amelyben a Szabályzat a vezérelv, s ahol tudják, hogy a szabadság csak babona. Vannak felettesek, akiket sohasem látni, és vannak szolgálattevők, akik kitüntetésre és kiváltságokra vágynak.
Tégy a világ közepébe egy másikat: egy lepusztult roncsot, amelyben jogrend van, hogy meghatároza, kinek, milyen beosztásban hányszor van joga meghalni. E zárt világ tetejére ültesd a Vezért.
Küldj egy átlagembert a roncs őrzésére. Biztos lehetsz benne, magányában gondolkozni fog, majd elhagyja őrhelyét, és bemegy a tiltott világba, a roncs talányos labirintusába.
Hagyd menekülni a szerencsétlent. Az őr, akinek érzelmei vannak, a polgár, ha ad magára, beavatkozásod nélkül is a vesztébe rohan.
Ha szövetségesekre lel, nyugodtan hátradőlhetsz a fotelban, hiszen az ilyen ember előbb-utóbb a szabadságot is keresni kezdi, bár hallani sem akar róla. Meglátod, mi végre jut. A roncs akcióregény.
Ha van elegendő humorérzéked, vizesre röhögöd magad a fantaszikus mesén. Ha méltóságod is van, és netán magad is közember vagy, esendő, megérted, miért választják a józanok a menekvést a szabadság helyett; belátod, hogy nem a lét a fontos, hanem a helyed a létezésben.
Az ember létezési módja a szabadság. A szorongás csak a mérhető lét állapota.
Ezt a regényt megírása óta egyetlen elvhű kiadó sem volt hajlandó megjelentetni, pedig semmi felforgató nincs benne.”
- Szitányi György
Kapcsolódó könyvek
Duncan Long - Határtalan antigravitáció
Szundítottam egy nagyot. Rettenetes volt, mikor felébredtem. Egy csésze forró koffeinkivonat után új embernek, vagy legalábbis egy elfogadható másolatnak éreztem magam.
Úgy döntöttem nem borotválkozom. A garázsba menet azon gondolkodtam, hogy mit csinálhattam előző nap.
Rájöttem, hogy:
1. a furgonom hátuljában két lassan bomló hulla fekszik;
2. egy kisebb vagyon ellopásáért vagyok felelős;
3. van összesen három, engedély nélkül tartott fegyverem;
4. továbbá, hogy több, mint száz lopott antigravitációs rúd van a birtokomban.
Azt hiszem érthető, hogy vissza akartam menni aludni.
Mac Walters - Mass Effect - Evolution
In the year 2157, first contact has become humanity’s first interstellar war. And maybe its last.
Eight years ago, the people of Earth discovered something astounding near Pluto. Part of a network of ancient devices, the mass relay allowed human to venture into a galaxy teeming with life.
Others did not welcome the new arrivals. Long established in the galaxy’s political scene, the militaristic turians challenged humanity’s right to find its destiny in the stars.
But even as Earth’s warriors fight Fist Contact War, other humans fear harm may come from further exposure to aliens and their strange artifacts. Believing knowledge is the first line of defense, a nascent sends its first scouts to the stars – and into the war zone…
Michael Jan Friedman - Faces of Fire
En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. Enterprise first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three, a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus. Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies and the rest of the crew heads to Alpha Malurian Six to find the dispute has turned to war.
As Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty search for a solution to end the conflict, a ship piloted by a Klingon faction arrives at the terraforming colony to take control of the facility. When colonists are imprisoned, and Spock and David must defeat the Klingons or face certain death.
Jeff VanderMeer - Authority
In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened ...Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in 'Annihilation', the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to 'put his house in order'. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves-and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.
Michael J. Martinez - The Daedalus Incident
Mars is supposed to be dead…
Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll—seemingly of their own volition—carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.
Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majesty’s Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man, doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus, a frigate sailing the high seas between continents…and the immense Void between the Known Worlds.
With the aid of his fierce captain, a drug-addled alchemist, and a servant girl with a remarkable past, Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic, who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planets—the consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System, threatening the very fabric of space itself.
Michael J. Martinez - The Enceladus Crisis
Two dimensions collided on the rust-red deserts of Mars—and are destined to become entangled once more in this sequel to the critically acclaimed The Daedalus Incident.
Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: the first manned mission to Saturn. But there’s competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong. The Chinese are vying for control of the critical moon Titan, and the moon Enceladus may harbor secrets deep under its icy crust. And back on Earth, Project DAEDALUS now seeks to defend against other dimensional incursions. But there are other players interested in opening the door between worlds . . . and they’re getting impatient.
For Thomas Weatherby, it’s been nineteen years since he was second lieutenant aboard HMS Daedalus. Now captain of the seventy-four-gun Fortitude, Weatherby helps destroy the French fleet at the Nile and must chase an escaped French ship from Egypt to Saturn, home of the enigmatic and increasingly unstable aliens who call themselves the Xan. Meanwhile, in Egypt, alchemist Andrew Finch has ingratiated himself with Napoleon’s forces . . . and finds the true, horrible reason why the French invaded Egypt in the first place.
The thrilling follow-up to The Daedalus Incident, The Enceladus Crisis continues Martinez’s Daedalus series with a combination of mystery, intrigue, and high adventure spanning two amazing dimensions.
Carl Barks - Donald kacsa kalandjai 1. - A nagy fogás és más történetek
- A nagy fogás
- Szünidei munka
- A szenvedélyes virágkertész
- Lökhajtay Dániel: Roland, a robotember
- A szárnyaló képzelet
Ismeretlen szerző - The Apex Book of World SF
Edited by Lavie Tidhar
S.P. Somtow(Thailand)--"The Bird Catcher"
Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)--"Transcendence Express"
Guy Hasson (Israel)--"The Levantine Experiments"
Han Song (China)--"The Wheel of Samsara"
Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji)--"Ghost Jail"
Yang Ping (China)--"Wizard World"
Dean Francis Alfar (Phillippines)--"L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)"
Nir Yaniv (Israel)--"Cinderers"
Jamil Nasir (Palenstine)--"The Allah Stairs"
Tunku Halim (Malaysia)--"Biggest Baddest Bomoh"
Aliette de Bodard (France)--"The Lost Xuyan Bride"
Kristin Mandigma (Phillippines)--"Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang"
Aleksandar Žiljak (Croatia)--"An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia On My Mind"
Anil Menon (India)--"Into the Night"
Mélanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)--"Elegy"
Zoran Živković (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tošić)--"Compartments"
Arthur C. Clarke - The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1983.
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Michael A. Stackpole - Dark Tide 1. - Onslaught
It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke's leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yunnan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Merciless warriors, the Yunnan Vong glory in torture. Their technology is as strange as it is deadly. Most ominous of all, they are impervious to the Force.
Now Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Darth Vader. As Leia and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yunnan Vong forces, Mara Jade, Anakin, Jacen, and Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe determined to smother the light of the New Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest evil . . .
Hannu Rajaniemi - The Fractal Prince
“The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”
A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution.
And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not.
Jean de Flambeur is back. And he’s running out of time.
In Hannu Rajaniemi’s sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe…and we discover what the future held for Earth.
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Ám egy nem várt fordulat végzetes és megcáfolhatatlan bizonyítékkal szolgál minden kétkedő számára…
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Sayuri Ueda - The Cage of Zeus
The Rounds are humans with the sex organs of both genders. Artificially created to test the limits of the human body in space, they are now a minority, despised and hunted by the terrorist group Vessel of Life. Aboard Jupiter-I, a space station orbiting the gas giant that shares its name, the Rounds have created their own society with a radically different view of gender and of life itself. Security chief Shirosaki keeps the peace between the Rounds and the typically gendered “Monaurals,” but when a terrorist strike hits the station, the balance of power and tolerance is at risk...and an entire people is targeted for genocide.
Isaac Asimov - The Best of Isaac Asimov
Featuring Asimov's personal choices, this collection offers a variety of science fiction stories that cover the period from 1949 to the present, each accompanied by a brief introduction.
Veronica Roth - Allegiant
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.
But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.
Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.
J. M. Dillard - Demons
Long before the Federation, powerful force invaded our galaxy and almost destroyed it... a force that began with possession and madness, and ended in murder!
A Starfleet research expedition to the farthest reaches of the galaxy has unearthed that force once again... and brought its silent evil back to the planet Vulcan. Now Spock must defeat the demons that threaten his friends and family,or the Enterprise™ will become the instrument of the galaxy's destruction!
George Saunders - Pastoralia
Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders now surpasses his New York Times Notable Book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, with this bestselling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.
Dan Wells - Fragments
Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence--it must be part of a larger plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Her companions are Afa Demoux, an unhinged drifter and former employee of ParaGen, and Samm and Heron, the Partials who betrayed her and saved her life, the only ones who know her secret. But can she trust them?
Meanwhile, back on Long Island, what's left of humanity is gearing up for war with the Partials, and Marcus knows his only hope is to delay them until Kira returns. But Kira's journey will take her deep into the overgrown wasteland of postapocalyptic America, and Kira and Marcus both will discover that their greatest enemy may be one they didn't even know existed.
The second installment in the pulse-pounding Partials saga is the story of the eleventh hour of humanity's time on Earth, a journey deep into places unknown to discover the means--and even more important, a reason--for our survival.
Jonathan Morris - Doctor Who: Festival of Death
The Beautiful Death is the ultimate theme-park ride: a sightseeing tour of the afterlife. But something has gone wrong, and when the Fourth Doctor arrives in the aftermath of the disaster, he is congratulated for saving the population from destruction - something he hasn't actually done yet. He has no choice but to travel back in time and discover how he became a hero.
And then he finds out. He did it by sacrificing his life.
An adventure featuring the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker and his companions Romana and K-9