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Die junge Shamera schlägt sich als Diebin durch und stiehlt von den Wohlhabenden, um zu überleben. Dabei setzt sie ihre magische Begabung ein, die sie jedoch noch nicht vollends beherrscht.
Als Shameras Mentor und Freund, ein mächtiger Magier, brutal ermordet wird, ist sie am Boden zerstört. Doch dann bekommt sie einen interessanten Auftrag: Sie soll nach einem Mörder suchen – und der Vorgehensweise nach zu urteilen, scheint es derjenige zu sein, der ihren geliebten Mentor tötete...
When Peder Forbath finds a legendary garment that endows him with undreamed-of powers, he is naturally delighted. But is Peder wearing the suit? Or is the suit wearing him…?
THE GARMENTS OF CAEAN are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garment endows him with undreamed-of powers. But is Peder wearing the suit – or is the suit wearing him?
Il Viaggiatore del Tempo nel grande capolavoro di H.G. Wells “La macchina del tempo” pensa con rimpianto a “come sia stato breve il sogno dell’intelletto umano”. Ma Stephen Baxter sa quello che Wells non poteva sapere, cioè proiettandosi nel tempo il Viaggiatore ha cambiato il futuro e sarà destinato a cambiarlo ancora. Svegliandosi nella sua casa di Richmond, il Viaggiatore non riesce a soffocare i rimorsi. Ha abbandonato la bella e indifesa Weena, del mite popolo degli Eloi, alle brame cannibalesche dei Morlock, la razza umana degenerata da cui è stato costretto a fuggire. Decide cosi di ripartire prontamente per un nuovo viaggio nell’anno 802.701 d.C., ma scopre con sgomento di essere entrato in un altro futuro. Approda infatti nell’anno 657.208 all’interno di una sfera di Dyson costruita da una razza di Morlock infinitamente più evoluta: il suo viaggio ha inevitabilmente innescato ramificazioni temporali che si aprono su nuovi universi paralleli. Non rimane quindi che tornare nel passato, affrontare una versione di se stesso più giovane e impedire l’invenzione della macchina del tempo. Ma non è cosi semplice, perché ecco apparire un’enorme e misterioso congegno, costruito per difendere a tutti i costi la macchina del tempo, che nel frattempo è diventata un’irrinunciabile arma segreta in una guerra futura... Ormai è chiaro, il destino del Viaggiatore non è solo quello di affrontare una sequela di avventure mozzafiato, ma di risolvere una catena di paradossi che si stanno moltiplicando attorno a lui. E soprattutto non ha abbandonato l’idea di ritrovare e salvare la sua Weena. Stephen Baxter reinterpreta le idee di Wells alla luce delle più recenti scoperte sulla natura dello spazio, del tempo e della meccanica quantistica, ma soprattutto, con estrema fedeltà e vigore narrativo, riscopre e rilancia verso nuovi orizzonti l’emozione che La macchina del tempo aveva saputo regalare.
To the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna-godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru (who would prefer not to be called a guru), irresistible charmer. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low caste and large inheritance, he is the brahmin fated to defy tradition and preside over the temple she dares to build, six miles north of Calcutta, along the banks of the Hooghly for Ma Kali, goddess of destruction. But to Hriday, his nephew and longtime caretaker, he is just Uncle-maddening, bewildering Uncle, prone to entering ecstatic trances at the most inconvenient of times, known to sneak out to the forest at midnight to perform dangerous acts of self-effacement, who must be vigilantly safeguarded not only against jealous enemies and devotees with ulterior motives, but also against that most treasured yet insidious of sulfur-rich vegetables: the cauliflower.
Rather than puzzling the shards of history and legend together, Barker shatters the mirror again and rearranges the pieces. The result is a biographical novel viewed through a kaleidoscope. Dazzlingly inventive and brilliantly comic, irreverent and mischievous, delivers us into the divine playfulness of a 21st-century literary master.
When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during the Nazis' rise to power; his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into timeless art.
Ein Massengrab in Georgien, in dem die Leichen mehrerer schwangerer Frauen entdeckt werden — und eine Verschwörung mit dem Ziel, diesen Fund der Öffentlichkeit vorzuenthalten …
Eine aufregende Entdeckung hoch in den Alpen: die gut erhaltenen Körper einer prähistorischen Familie — mit einem Neugeborenen, das verwir-rende biologische Merkmale aufweist …
Eine rätselhafte, epidemisch um sich greifende Krankheit, die nur werdende Mütter befällt und zunächst zu Fehlgeburten führt …
In der menschlichen DNA sind uralte Krankheiten verschlüsselt, die wie schlafende Drachen nur darauf warten, wieder zum Leben erweckt zu werden — so die umstrittene Theorie der Molekularbiologin Kaye Lang.
Nun scheinen ihre Vorstellungen tatsächlich erschreckende Realität zu werden. Denn der »Virusjäger« Christopher Dicken vom nationalen Ge-sundheitszentrum hat die Spur einer merkwürdigen, grippeartigen Erkrankung aufgenommen, die epidemisch um sich greift und unter den werdenden Müttern des Landes und ihrem Nachwuchs eine Katastrophe anzurichten droht. Dann offenbart eine erstaunliche Entdeckung hoch in den Alpen — die erhaltenen Körper einer prähistorischen Familie — eine schockierende Verbindung: Etwas, das Millionen von Jahren in unseren Genen geschlummert hat, ist erwacht.
Der Ausbruch der furchtbaren Krankheit weitet sich zu einer tödlichen Epidemie aus. In der Bevölkerung machen sich Angst und Unruhe breit; die Regierung beschließt Notstandsmaßnahmen. In einem Wettkampf mit der Zeit versuchen Dicken und Lang die Teile eines Puzzles zusammenzufügen, das nur sie zu lösen vermögen — eines evolutionären Puzzles, das die Zukunft der Menschheit bestimmen wird … wenn es überhaupt eine Zukunft gibt.
A little boy was found dead in a children's playground...Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy. As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian's troubled home life, Daniel thinks back to his own childhood in foster care - and to Minnie, the woman whose love saved him, until she, too, betrayed him so badly that he cut her out of his life. But what crime did Minnie commit that made Daniel disregard her for fifteen years? And will Daniel's identification with a child on trial for murder make him question everything he ever believed in?
Review
[a] moving, insightful debut ... It's easy to see why this caused such a stir at Frankfurt last year. If it isn't this year's Before I Go To Sleep, I'll eat my laptop The Guardian
About the Author
Lisa Ballantyne was born in Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland and was educated at Armadale Academy and University of St Andrews. She spent most of her twenties working and living in China, before returning to the UK in 2002, to work in Higher Education. She lives in Glasgow; this is her first novel.
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed young writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. The Washington Post Book World wrote, "We happily share with [Delmira]… her life, including the infinitely charming town she inhabits [and] her grandmother's fantastic imagination." In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to purchase torrential rains at a traveling fair, or to watch your family's elderly serving woman develop stigmata, then disappear completely, to be canonized as a local saint. As Delmira becomes a woman she will search for her missing father, and will make a choice that will force her to leave home forever. Brimming with the spirit of its irrepressible heroine, Leaving Tabasco is a story of great charm and depth that will remain in its readers' hearts for a long time. "Carmen Boullosa… immerses us once again in her wickedly funny and imaginative world." — Dolores Prida, Latina "To flee Agustini is to leave not just a town but the viscerally primal dreamscape it represents." — Sandra Tsing Loh, The New York Times Book Review "A vibrant coming-of-age tale… Boullosa [is] a master…. Each chapter is an adventure." — Monica L. Williams, The Boston Globe
Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America’s most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable imaginary life of one of history's most legendary women. Dying in Marc Antony’s arms, Cleopatra bewails the end of her political career throughout ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Mediterranean. But is this weak woman the true Cleopatra?
Through the intervention of Cleopatra's scribe and informer Diomedes, Boullosa creates two deliriously wild other lives for the young monarch — a girl escaping the intrigues of royal society to disguise herself and take up residence with a band of pirates; and the young queen who is carried across the sea on the back of a magical bull, to live among the Amazons.
Magical, multifaceted, and rippling with luminous imagination, Cleopatra Dismounts is a work that recalls Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry and confirms Carmen Boullosa as an important international voice.
The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues — outcasts and fortune seekers all. In acclaimed Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa animates this world of bloody chaos and uncertain possibility through the eyes of the young Jean Smeeks, kidnapped in Flanders at age thirteen and sold into indentured servitude on Tortuga, the mythical Treasure Island. Trained in the magic of medicine by le Negre Miel, an African slave healer, and Pineau, a French-born surgeon, Smeeks signs on as a medical officer with the pirate band the Brethren of the Coast. Transformed by the looting and violence of pirate life, Smeeks finds himself both healer and despoiler, servant and mercenary, suspended between the worlds of the law-abiding, tradition-bound "cows" and the freely roaming and raiding "pigs."
The “War Against Drugs”: who started it, and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics, for the people most affected by it?
One hundred thousand deaths later — with the vast majority of those killed innocent citizens, such as the 43 teachers college students recently killed in Guerrero — the solution to peace requires a radical rethinking of how America, and its neighbors, approach the illegal drug trade.
The origins of this cataclysm of violence go back a century: and no two writers are better suited to this investigation than Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace, two legendary prize-winning writers, one Mexican and the other American. Through them we learn of economic disaster, mass migration of families fleeing violence, and the chaos that has ensued as direct results of this disastrous policy promulgated by the U.S. Government. Before the attack on a supposedly rampant drug “problem,” Mexico had one of the lowest crime rates and lowest addiction rates in Latin America. Now, it may be the most crime-ridden, drug-infested country on the planet.
Dans cet avenir très éloigné, l'humanité a conquis la surface entière de la Terre. Elle s'est transformée et divisée en deux espèces.
D'un côté, les Néchiffes à quatre orteils qui habitent d'immenses cités fourmilières où ils mènent sous terre une existence programmée d'hommes-insectes. Ils sont plus de trois . Les Agrimaches cultivent pour eux les champs et ont éliminé toute forme de vie inutile.
De l'autre, les Broncos, libres, affamés, traqués comme des parasites par les chasseurs Néchiffes. Ils ne sont plus qu'une poignée, errant à la surface, pillant les récoltes. Ce sont les humains sauvages à cinq orteils.
Déjà, l'humanité s'estompe…
Dans la tradition du d'Aldous Huxley et de de Frank Herbert, voici un roman terrifiant sur un avenir écologique possible de l'humanité, écrit par un biologiste qui est aussi un formidable conteur.
Dans un avenir lointain, des trillions de Néchiffes à quatre orteils habitent des fourmilières souterraines où ils mènent une existence programmée d’hommes-insectes. Les Agrimachines cultivent pour eux les champs et ont éliminé toute forme de vie inutile. Les ratisseurs de plancton ont fait de même à la surface des océans jusqu’à ce que les mers elles aussi deviennent stériles.
Mais les humains sauvages et les renégats des cités s’efforcent en toute innocence de maintenir les anciennes valeurs de l’humanité. Avec d’étranges alliés comme le , un navire robot qui a la nostalgie des grandes pêches d’antan… Ou comme Trilobite, le petit cyber sentimental.
Dans la tradition du d’Aldous Huxley et de de Frank Herbert, voici la suite d’, et un nouveau roman tout aussi étrange et inquiétant que le premier sur un avenir écologique possible de l’humanité, écrit par un biologiste qui est aussi un formidable conteur.
This book is an anthology of original stories inspired by science and scientists. The authors—some of the best and most decorated in the field—each visited Microsoft Research and met with top researchers in areas such as machine learning, computer vision, speech recognition, programming languages, and operating systems. They were given a unique opportunity to see new technologies under development and understand how researchers think and work.
The stories that came out of this process are the kind of science fiction that excited me as boy. They draw upon, highlight, and extrapolate current science. A number of them put scientists and engineers front and center in the narrative.
Pupilek, to domowe zwierzątko, ufne, przytulne, miłe. Pupilek to również krnąbrny i podstępny stwór. Zamiast cieszyć się, że udało mu się uniknąć losu większości ludzi, którzy teraz mieszkają w lasach lub miejskich śmietnikach, niewdzięcznik porzuca wygodne życie z prześliczną obróżką na szyi i decyduje się na niebezpieczną tułaczkę. Uczy się walki w szkole gladiatorów, poznaje ludzi upodlonych, ludzi kolaborujących z najeźdźcą i niewielką grupkę tych, których najazd nie złamał.
Wreszcie przystaje do bojowników o wyzwolenie ujarzmionej wieki temu Ziemi.
A commonplace book, arranging works of criticism looking at Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with fragments of memoir/fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching Hitchcock, the fragments soon take up multiple narratives and threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. Fragments from a dizzying list of authors, from Truffaut to Philip K. Dick and Geoff Dyer to Bruno Schultz, are meticulously arranged in a fascinating, multilayered reading experience.
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