Category: Science Fiction

By Philip K. Dick

Elle est Emily Hnatt dan Le Dieu venu du Centaure, Donna Hawthorne dans Substance Mort, Sherri Solvig dans Siva, Rybys Romney dans L'invasion divine...
Multiple, fantasmée, elle traverse une life marquée par des expériences mystiques, le doute et l'abus de drogue. Ses cheveux sont noirs comme l. a. nuit ; determine invariante, démiurgique, elle est chaque femme que Philip ok. Dick a connue et aimée.
La fille aux cheveux noirs rassemble toutes les lettres qu'il a adressées à cette mystérieuse muse, personnage aussi réel que virtuel et raison d'être de son travail littéraire. Au détour de cette correspondance à sens exact, où se mêlent fiction et autobiographie, apparaît en filigrane le portrait d'un auteur qui healthy de sa vie son meilleur roman.

By Ryder Windham

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THE final consultant TO absolutely the strength on the center OF THE superstar WARS GALAXY

The strength, within the immortal phrases of Obi-Wan Kenobi, "surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together." The lucky few who're in a position to faucet into this awesome energy have studied and cultivated the total spectrum of its potential--either embracing its virtuous traits or succumbing to its evil temptations. The Jedi search to carry peace and enlightenment to the galaxy, whereas the Sith starvation just for conquest and control.

This accomplished unique review chronicles the identified background of the strength and its wielders down during the a while, from the founding tenets of Jedi and Sith teachings to the landmark occasions and mythical figures who've formed the fight among the sunshine and darkish facets. In first-hand bills via Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, Darth Bane, Darth Vader, count number Dooku, Emperor Palpatine, and a number of different Jedi Masters,...

By David Mack

The U.S.S. da Vinci's project to salvage the U.S.S. Orion and the lethal Wildfire warhead has long gone horribly incorrect. Captain Gold and safeguard leader Corsi are gravely injured, and the da Vinci is actually coming aside on the seams because it drifts more and more into the lethal surroundings of a gasoline large. Worse, the Wildfire machine is armed and free within the turbulent surroundings, threatening destruction on a planetary scale.
Commander Sonya Gomez and what's left of her S.C.E. group needs to use all their talents to outlive, entire the challenge, and research the lethal mystery of the unusual alien lighting fixtures that might be both their salvation -- or their destruction!

By Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo is one in all technological know-how Fiction's most interesting brief tale writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginitive; Babylon Sisters and different Posthumans is a beneficiant exhibit of his unusual, transformative, and strong difficult SF visions. The fourteen tales accumulated listed here are glimpses into the main magnificent probabilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a brand new York cut up into warring walled enclaves, to the future of our species as a pressure of virus, to an Africa revamped by way of nanotech messiahs, to a destiny Earth secure via half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we've got regularly so tragically been: those are just the various awe-inspiring transitions to be present in Babylon Sisters. learn the following of uprising through books opposed to their librarian, of cosmic future remade through stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures past the bounds of the human; become aware of the following the perverse and poor risks of the age of posthumanity.

By Ryk Brown

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A captain entering his own…
A handful of refugees stranded on board…
a potential traitor of their midst…
A voyage into the territory of the very enemy that pursues them…

occasionally legends develop into realities in unforeseen ways.

it appears destiny has the workforce of the Aurora firmly in its clutches.

By Charles Sheffield

Referred to as "the new Arthur C. Clarke" via The Washington put up booklet World and "a scientist with a good literary sense" by way of The Denver Post, Charles Sheffield has crafted a a thrilling experience a few pissed off teenager who simply can't appear to do whatever right.

Jeff Kopal is inheritor to a strong army relatives. He's acquired every thing going for him. other than something: Jeff is a complete screw-ups. His relatives has had it. So whilst Jeff blows off his naval front tests he figures his destiny is largely kaput. as a substitute, he's being despatched by means of the army into deep house to accommodate rebellious cyborgs. How did that happen?

Jeff must discover ahead of it's too overdue. differently, He may well develop into the pawn in an individual else's dangerous-and very deadly-game.

By P. N. Burrows

“You are all unpredictably harmful and you may activate the remainder of the universe...”

PN Burrows’ fast moving, innovative technology fiction mystery, Mineran impact, attracts the reader into new worlds and cultures from the outlet web page. hence, the 1st e-book during this ‘Mineran’ questions how ex-solider, Sam, reacts whilst he stumbles throughout a mysterious alien presence in rural Wales. sign up for him on his trip as he comes head to head together with his maximum problem yet...

Whilst wondering his ideals and every little thing he has been formerly advised, Sam quickly unearths himself embroiled in intrigue, alien know-how, assassination makes an attempt and conflicts that threaten greater than his personal existence. regardless of assembly new buddies, he's fast stuck up in an internet of intrigue as he seeks the reality in the back of the lethal alien existence forms.

His trip for solutions will introduce him to pernicious enemies with hidden agendas as a heinous plot to kill him unravels. First, he’ll need to defeat his own demons on the way to safe justice and observe the reality of who or what's in the back of the lethal ploy and why. studying that there's even more within the universe that commonly concept, Sam embarks on a trip that might switch him forever...

“I have desired to write the Mineran sequence for years [...] i discovered my mind's eye for plots and situations engrossing,” reviews PN Burrows.

By Poul Anderson, Karen Anderson

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By David Wingrove

Spring 2201 - Spring 2203: The T'ang who make up the ruling Seven are suffering to keep up stasis and stop switch, because the battle That Wasn't A warfare is fought in the degrees of Chung Kuo's nice world-spanning urban: a struggle fought now not with armies on battlefields yet with an artistic evil - with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings.

Adding to the strain for switch is the life of a record that charts the real historical past of this global, now not the model invented and policed via the Ministry - the Thousand Eyes - who've, for thus lengthy, maintained this darkish shadow on the very center of Chung Kuo. Its discovery by way of the Dispersionists will gas their ardent wish for switch and for an finish to Han rule.

Lined up opposed to the Dispersionists are a handful of fellows completely dependable to the Seven - males like normal Tolonen, besides the 2 males he has recruited from the Lowers, Gregor Karr and Kao Chen. while Tolonen destroys the newly-built generation-starship, the recent desire, he'll switch Chung Kuo for strong by way of stating warfare at the Dispertionists.

By David Sherman, Dan Cragg

Strive against, betrayal, and homicide on the fringe of human area . . .

Deployed to aid the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in placing down a uprising that threatens the planet's political and fiscal balance, the Marines needs to struggle wars whilst . . . one opposed to the innovative, well-led guerrillas and one other with the entrenched police bureaucracy.

But who's the genuine enemy and who could be depended on? On Wanderjahr, not anything is because it seems--not even the animal life--and all people has his personal time table. Inexorably, the Marines of the thirty fourth FIST are drawn deeper and deeper into the politics of a global the place homicide, terror, and betrayal are the permitted tools of presidency . . . and everybody is ripe for an old school butt-kickin'.