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Time, Space and the Future. Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction…eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today’s leading writers.
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Paolo Bacigalupi - Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the nebula and Hugo nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."
Ray Bradbury - The October Country
The October Country is a 1955 collection of twenty macabre short stories by Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere.
John Scalzi - The Back Channel
The Conclave is a confederation of four hundred alien racesmany of whom would like to see the Colonial Union, and the humans inside of it, blasted to extinction. To avoid a conflict that neither side can afford, Conclave leader General Tarsem Gau appoints Hafte Sorvalh to resolve an emerging diplomatic crisis with the humans, before the only acceptable solution is war.
John Scalzi - Tales from the Clarke
Captain Sophia Coloma of the Clarke has a simple task: Ferry around representatives from Earth in an aging spaceship that the Colonial Union hopes to sell to them. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and Coloma discovers the ship she's showing off holds suprises of its own...and it's not the only one with secrets.
John Scalzi - A Voice in the Wilderness
Albert Birnbaum was once one of the biggest political talk show hosts around, but these days hes watching his career enter a death spiral. A stranger offers a solution to his woes, promising to put him back on top. Its everything Birnbaum wants, but is there a catch? And does Birnbaum actually care if there is?
John Scalzi - Walk the Plank
Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized and secret so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he came to their colony is shocking, surprising, and might have bigger consequences than anyone could have expected.
The second episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.
John Scalzi - The B-Team
The opening episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.
Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Unions future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers theres more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected...a secret that could spell war for humanity.
John Scalzi - The Dog King
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has one simple task: Watch an ambassador’s dog while the diplomat is conducting sensitive negotiations with an alien race. But you know dogs - always getting into something. And when this dog gets into something that could launch an alien civil war, Wilson has to find a way to solve the conflict, fast, or be the one in the Colonial Union’s doghouse.
John Scalzi - The Sound of Rebellion
The Colonial Defense Forces usually protect humanity from alien attack, but now the stability of the Colonial Union has been threatened, and Lieutenant Heather Lee and her squad are called to squash a rebellion on a colony world. It seems simple enoughbut theres a second act to the rebellion that finds Lee captive, alone, and armed with only her brains to survive.
John Scalzi - The Observers
In an effort to improve relations with the Earth, the Colonial Union has invited a contingent of diplomats from that planet to observe Ambassador Abumwe negotiate a trade deal with an alien species. Then something very bad happens to one of the Earthings, and with that, the relationship between humanitys two factions is on the cusp of disruption once more. Its a race to find out what really happened, and who is to blame.
Arthur C. Clarke - The Space Trilogy - Islands of the Sky / Earthlight / The Sands of Mars
Islands in the Sky, first published in 1954, sees Roy Malcolm winning a trip to the Inner Station, a space station rotating 500 miles from Earth. The Sands of Mars, set in the 21st century, has a group of pioneers struggling to change the face of this inhospitable planet. In Earthlight, two centuries hence, man has colonised the planets and the inhabitants of the Moon owe no allegiance to any nation on Earth - or to Earth itself . . . This omnibus edition of three of Arthur C. Clarke's early novels shows the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey exploring space and time in adventurous and thoughtful ways.
Ismeretlen szerző - Wastelands
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.
Ismeretlen szerző - Monsters
Here are future nighmares - the enemies that await us both within and outside our world, from a small town in Kansas to the seas of Venus.
Fantastic and thrilling short novels and stories by science fiction's bestselling authors.
Iain M. Banks - The State of the Art
The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
John Scalzi - This Must Be the Place
Colonial Union diplomat Hart Schmidt is back home for Harvest Day celebrations to a family whose members wonder whether its youngest son isn't wasting his life clinging to the lowest rung of the CUs diplomatic ladder. When his father, a legendarily powerful politician, presents him with a compelling offer, Schmidt has to take stock of his life and career.
John Scalzi - We Only Need the Heads
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has been loaned out to a CDF platoon tasked with secretly removing an unauthorized colony of humans on an alien world. Colonial Ambassador Abumwe has been ordered to participate in final negotiations with an alien race the Union hopes to make allies. Wilson and Abumwes missions are fated to crossand in doing so, place both missions at risk of failure.
Kurt Vonnegut - Majomház
Aztán megtudtuk azt is, hogy az orosz űrhajó több kis műholddá esett szét, amelyek utóbb szétszóródtak. Aztán a múlt hónapban kibújt a szög a zsákból. A kis műholdak közül kettő ember volt. Az egyik az ön fia, a másik az enyém. Én most sírok, Mr. Ivankov. Remélem, a fiaink halálából származik valami haszon is. Azt gondolom, amióta ember él a Földön, apák milliói remélték ezt. Az ENSZ-ben még mindig vitatkoznak azon, mi történt odafent. Örülök, hogy mostanra legalább abban egyetértenek - még az önök Mr. Kosevoja is -, hogy baleset történt. Bud az ön fiának űrhajójáról akart felvételeket készíteni - és szerezni némi dicsőséget az Egyesült Államoknak. Túlságosan megközelítette. Szeretném remélni, hogy az összeütközés után éltek még egy darabig, és megpróbálták megmenteni egymást.
Ray Bradbury - Gyógyír búskomorságra
NEM MINDEN PIRULA KESERŰ...
...ha van egy csodálatos fagylaltszínű öltönyünk, amely megváltoztatja viselőjét.
...ha egy eldugott, sivatagi hotelban várjuk az enyhet adó esőt, amely különös alakban érkezik.
...ha telepesek vagyunk a Marson, és szörnyen hiányzik a Föld. Alkonyatkor a tenger kisodor elénk egy csodálatos lényt, kinek puszta léte is varázslat.
...ha...
Ray Bradbury 1959-ben megjelent "Gyógyír búskomorságra" című kötetének klasszikus novellái ma is éppen olyan frissek és újszerűek, mint régen, ma is ugyanúgy hatnak, mint fél évszázaddal ezelőtt - akár az űr távoli zugát, akár szívünk mélyét célozzák meg.
Roger MacBride Allen - Isaac Asimov's Utopia
Third in a powerful trilogy that examines Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics--a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, and written with his cooperation.
Ray Bradbury - Az öröm masinériái
Az öröm masinériái című válogatás 1964-ben jelent meg, és számos olyan novellát tartalmaz, mely most először olvasható magyar nyelven.
