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A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars’ oldest colonizing families — both involved in the student uprising of 2171 — see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.
Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and John F. Campbell Memorial Awards in 1994.
Vergil Ulam był geniuszem przekraczającym granice biologii. Pracował nad restrukturyzacją komórek ludzkiego organizmu. Komórek myślących. Ponieważ Genotron, firma, w której pracował, skasował jego rewolucyjny program badawczy, Vergil postanowił na przekór wszystkiemu ocalić dzieło swego życia. Wybrał sposób najprostszy i najskuteczniejszy — przemycił myślące komórki we własnej krwi. Początkowo skutki działania inteligentnych limfocytów są niczym cuda w małej skali: wzrok Vergila poprawia się, a on sam staje się okazem zdrowia i seksualnej sprawności. Ale potem dzieją się rzeczy bardziej niezwykłe. Komórki mnożą się i przebudowują stopniowo „te zwykłe”, tworząc organizmy o wysokim stopniu komplikacji i wręcz społeczeństwa. Vergil Ulam staje się wszechświatem. Wszechświatem składających i eksperymentujących. Komórek, które bardzo szybko odkrywają istnienie innych ludzi i „zewnętrznego” wszechświata. Komórek, które postanowiły, że oto nastał czas przemian…
A near-future thriller that pits young FBI agents against a brilliant, homegrown terrorist.
It's the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs. No one feels safe.
In North America, the FBI uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. Sat-linked engine blockers stop drug-traffickers cold; devices the size of Magic Markers test for bio-hazards on the spot; 3-D projectors reconstruct crime scenes from hours-old evidence; and sophisticated bomb suits protect against all but the most savage forces. Despite all this, the War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate.
Now the FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. Like the Anthrax threat of 2001, a plague targeted to ethnic groups-Jews or Muslims or both-has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There's a good chance agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover-and the man they chase-proves far more complex than anyone expects.
Wyklęty paleontolog Mitch Rafelson odkrywa w Alpach w spoczywające od dziesiątków tysięcy lat w nieznanej jaskini ciała rodziny neandertalczyków. Biolog molekularna Kaye Lang uważa, że w DNA człowieka, niby śpiący rycerze z legend, skrywają się pradawne choroby, które miliony lat czekają tylko na wezwanie, aby móc znowu zarażać i zabijać.
I w bardzo niedalekiej przyszłości, budzą się demony, z naszego genomu wyłania wirus, którego nazwa przypomina imię indyjskiego boga śmierci, Śiwy. Ludzkości zagraża zagłada, gdyż wirus powoduje poronienia u wszystkich zarażonych kobiet. Władze podejmują radykalne środki, dochodzi do zamieszek, prześladowań kobiet. Nieliczni, w tym Lang i Rafelson, w zagrożeniu widzą nadzieję, w chorobie, bólu, przemocy dostrzegają bóle porodowe ludzkości, które poprzedzają ogromny skok ewolucyjny, przyjście na świat nowego człowieka. Prześladowani i potępiani, ścigają się z czasem, aby rozwiązać największą zagadkę w dziejach rodu ludzkiego i powstrzymać oszalały świat.
Arcydzieło wysoko naukowej fantastyki autorstwa zdobywcy nagrody Nebula, według wielu krytyków najlepsza książka SF w USA w roku 1999. Prawdziwy, przedstawiony z ogromnym rozmachem i wnikliwością obraz nauki i nas, ludzi, postawio-nych przed obliczem być może największego zagrożenia w jej dziejach.
The 1990s present humanity with a dilemma when two groups of aliens arrive on Earth. The first invaders introduce themselves as altruistic ambassadors, but the second warn that their predecessors are actually unstoppable planet-eaters who will utterly destroy the world. The American president accepts this message as the ultimate judgment and calls for fervent prayers to appease the Forge of God. Meanwhile, military men plot to blow up spaceships, and both scientists and lay people help the second alien race preserve Earthly achievement.
Nominated for Nebula Award in 1987. Nominated for Hugo and Locus awards in 1988.
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven () and Gregory Benford (), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it’s on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.
A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated — one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape — the mystery of the Bowl’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth…
But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with the slow advance of science. There was talk of closing down the lab. The Earthside pols wanted publicity, adventure and profits—and not necessarily in that order.
So Matt had a bright idea. He figured he’d steal a spacesuit. Grab a spare shuttlecraft. And discover life on Jupiter…
Ogni 76 anni ritorna uno dei più affascinanti e misteriosi visitatori che l’umanità ricordi: la Cometa di Halley. Il suo passaggio più recente è ancora fresco nella memoria, ma questo straordinario romanzo ci parla del prossimo appuntamento, e della spedizione di un gruppo di scienziati su Halley, non solo per scoprirne i misteri, ma per trasformarla in un luogo adatto alla vita. Tra meraviglie tecnologiche e sforzi sovrumani di adattamento, i segreti sepolti nel cuore della cometa (tutt’altro che priva di forme di vita) trasformano un immane progetto di colonizzazione in una spietata lotta per la sopravvivenza. Tuttavia, le minacce non vengono solo da un ambiente irriducibile, ma anche dagli stessi membri della spedizione, un complesso microcosmo che riproduce tensioni, conflitti e pregiudizi che hanno portato la Terra sull’orlo della catastrofe; ma soprattutto c’è il drammatico confronto tra due “forme” umane, quella naturale degli Orthos, e quella manipolata geneticamente dei Perceli. Uno sfondo da cui emergono tre grandi protagonisti, dai quali dipende il futuro della missione: Carl Osborn, Saul Lintz e, soprattutto, Virginia Kaninamanu Herbert, impegnata ad esplorare le frontiere fra l’intelligenza umana e quella artificiale. E il lungo viaggio della cometa nelle profondità dello spazio procede fra eventi memorabili e tremende avversità, in un alternarsi di trionfi e delusioni. Esperienze però che ogni volta lasciano appena intuire le incredibili prospettive che ancora attendono la colonia di Halley. Un grandioso affresco, che ha pochi eguali per ricchezza d’idee ed efficacia narrativa, dove si ritrovano tutti i più grandi temi della fantascienza.
Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It’s 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It’s 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story’s perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.
Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science.
Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.
The book that launched the career of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear—and earned him an avalanche of praise from the SF world—“Blood Music” offers a “dazzling flight of disciplined imagination. (It’s) one of the most interesting stories to come along in years” (Poul Anderson).
Stuttgart im 14. Jahrhundert: Drei geheimnisvolle Zahlen verändern Christophs Leben grundlegend. Wegen dieser Zahlen, die für eine explosive Formel stehen, wird sein Vater, ein reicher Gewürzhändler, gefoltert und anschließend aus der Stadt verbannt. Als der Vater an den Folgen der Folter stirbt, macht sich Christoph auf die Suche nach seinen Mördern. Der Bietigheimer Lehrer Bentele, der für seinen Jugendroman „Wolfsjahre“ mit dem Friedrich-Gerstäcker-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde, verknüpft Motive aus dem Kriminalroman mit historisch überlieferten Fakten und schildert detailliert das Aufkommen der verheerendsten Seuche des Mittelalters, der Pest. Wieder einmal werden die Juden als vermeintliche Verursacher dieser Geißel der Menschheit zur Verantwortung gezogen. Bentele beschreibt glaubwürdig, wie Hass, Vorurteile und Verzweiflung zu einem bestialischen Pogrom führen; er bemüht sich um eine objektive Analyse historischer Entwicklungen.
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