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A chilling mystery with a solution that will leave you spellbound. Stephanie Barron does an excellent job of creating Jane Austen’s world. Details of early 19th-century country life of all cases ring true, while the story line is clear, yet full of surprises.
A skillfully told tale with a surprising ending. The narrative is true both to what's known about Jane's activities at the time and to her own private journalistic voice.
Moving into Chawton Cottage, Jane Austen gets an unexpected and mysterious Bengal chest as a legacy. But before she has time to study its contents, a corpse is found…
Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded in his face, and he was dragged across the Soviet border. There he stayed for months. When they finally gave him back, the Soviets had given him a metal arm… and an expressionless metal skull. So how could Allied Security be sure he actually was Martino?
From the return of Jimi Hendrix, as witnessed by a hero-worshipping spaced-out roadie, to the death of Christ as witnessed by a time-traveling tourist, from the end of the universe to the creation of a new one, these are stories about martyrdom, salvation and apocalypse.
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. A very rare case of a translated novel being nominated for an American SF award.
A band of immortals recruit physicist Sequoya Guess — who gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. But the task of the merry suddenly becomes a fight for the future of Earth. Sequoya Guess must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal?
Serialized in (Nov, Dec 1974, Jan 1975) as , later published in book form as . Several later editions were issued under the title .
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975.
Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening’s mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.
Or rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off his outer platties and take a malenky bit of cutter.
For Alex’s confessions are written in ‘nadsat’—the teenage argot of a not-too-distant future.
Because of his delinquent excesses, Alex is jailed and made subject to “Ludovico’s Technique,” a chilling experiment in Reclamation Treatment…
Horror farce? Social prophecy? Penetrating study of human choice between good and evil? A “Clockwork Orange” is all three, dazzling proof of Anthony Burgess’s vast talents.
Był ocalałym z katastrofy wędrowcem, który wymieniał opowieści na prowiant i schronienie w okrutnym świecie po straszliwej wojnie. Pewnego mrocznego dnia dotknęło go zrządzenie losu. Pożyczył sobie kurtkę dawno zmarłego pocztowca, by schronić sie przed zimnem. Stary, wytarty strój nadal miał moc jako symbol nadziei. Przyodziany w tę kurtkę zaczął snuć swą najwspanialszą opowieść o odradzającej się ojczyźnie.
Powieść Davida Brina jest historią o kłamstwie, które stało się najpotężniejszą prawdą, jest dramatyczną sagą o człowieku, który przebudził ducha Ameryki, posiłkując się moca marzenia.
Opowieść otrzymala nagrody Campbella i Locusa w 1986.
La fantascienza è l’unico genere letterario nel quale l’uomo sia direttamente e concretamente posto a confronto con l’infinito. In questo dato risiede il suo fascino principale: perchè dall’infinito emerge l'enigma, l’ignoto, l’incubo, ed il confronto si trasforma in una sfida. Questo romanzo di Algis Budrys (un autore che i lettori di «Futuro» hanno già avuto modo di apprezzare) ripropone uno dei temi più classici della narrativa fantascientifica: quello della minaccia nascosta in un mondo sconosciuto, del mistero che deve essere rivelato a rischio della vita. Il mondo che cela l’enigma, e dà corpo alla sfida, è il nostro satellite naturale: la Luna, che l’uomo ha appena sfiorata, e che cela nelle sue viscere un segreto mortale. Cosa si nasconde in fondo al labirinto dal quale nessun esploratore è mai uscito vivo? Quale intelligenza maligna ha potuto concepire una trappola cosi crudele e mostruosa? L’intelletto umano non possiede strutture adeguate a scandagliare un abisso così folle e contorto, anche perchè la «cosa» che si cela in fondo all’abisso è a sua volta al di là della follia e dell’assurdo. «Il satellite proibito» è il più originale e famoso tra i romanzi di Budrys.
Nominato per il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 1961.
Thomas Lourds ventures to Istanbul University in Turkey to examine artifacts never before seen by Western scholars. He's barely off the plane before he's kidnapped by ruthless people who leave a string of dead bodies in their wake. They want Lourds to translate coded writings that they hope will lead them to a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos – the same John who wrote the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The writings on the scroll might bring about the end of the world – or might stop it. They might even raise the Devil himself – but there are signs that the Devil has already risen and that he is very interested in Thomas Lourds. No one knows for sure what will happen if the scroll is found, decoded, and translated, but several powerful men are seeking it, and they will stop at nothing to get it. And one of those people has ties to the US government, ties that lead directly to the White House. Before he knows it, Thomas Lourds is in over his head, dodging spies, crooks, and bullets. He needs help to stay alive – and he has it in the form of a beautiful but deadly Irish Republican Army operative, and in his old flame, Olympia Adnan. Can they navigate the secrets hidden in ancient Istanbul 's most secret depths before they are killed? Or will they be too late to stop the terrible workings of the Devil himself before he can bring the world down around them?
In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America 's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.
President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill a Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.
In The Malaccan Conspiracy by Don Brown, author of the Navy Justice series, a dastardly plot is hatched in the Malaysian seaport of Malacca to attack civilian oil tankers, assassinate the Indonesian President, and use fat windfall profits to finance a nuclear attack against American cities. Can Navy JAG officers Zack Brewer and Diane Colcernian foil the conspiracy before disaster strikes?
Ben vengano i trattati fra Est e Ovest quando servono ad aumentare la distensione, ma non conviene farsi troppe illusioni in materia di segreti scientifici e militari. Supponiamo che in un laboratorio americano situato nei pressi di una frontiera da sempre considerata calda si verifichi un grave incidente, e che i primi a soccorrere i superstiti siano i sovietici. Supponiamo che l’unico superstite sia anche il piu importante, il dottor Lucas Martino, il solo uomo al corrente al progetto K-88. E ora supponiamo che i sovietici restituiscano agli americani il dottor Martino dopo averlo di certo strappato alla morte… ma “ricostruito” con un viso e altre parti del corpo interamente di metallo. Se foste sovietici, restituireste lo stesso uomo? E se foste americani, credereste ai sovietici? Se infine foste il dottor Lucas Martino, come vi sentireste a stare nel mezzo?
Nominato per il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 1958.
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