Лучшие книги Кэтрин Маклин

Космический корабль приземляется на ранее неизученной планете. В составе экипажа — два инженера и христианский проповедник. Обнаружив, что планету населяют люди, находящиеся на первобытной стадии развития, инженеры пытаются изучить их и вступить в контакт, а проповедник — донести до аборигенов Слово Божие, и предотвратить возможные в подобном обществе человеческие жертвоприношения. Но грядет весеннее половодье, а благие намерения не всегда приводят к положительному исходу...

Всегда ли лягушка превратится в царевну, если её поцеловать?

Что будет, если в день вашей свадьбы норны случайно засунут нить вашей жизни совсем в другую пряжу? Вот это и предстоит выяснить Гранту, молодому американскому архитектору.

Katherine MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s, which often examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. This volume collects 8 of her classic science fiction stories: Contagion
Pictures Don’t Lie
The Snowball Effect
The Man Who Staked The Stars
The Carnivore
Games
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MISSING MAN By Katherine MacLean Disaster and death are in store for The City unless the Rescue Squad can find the missing man in Nebula Award winner Katherine MacLean's eagerly awaited first novel.
George Sanford had a gift for guessing right the first time and very little else going for him. When Ahmed and his other friends in his gang grew up, they all advanced in school and got jobs, but George couldn't score well on tests, and there aren't any jobs for guys like George in The City. George never even wanted to sign his name, let alone fill out applications and reports. When he bumps into his old gang leader, Ahmed, now a member of The City's Rescue Squad, George is swept up in the excitement of a hunt for a trapped girl. It is George who finds her, with his special talent. George rapidly becomes the unconventional pride of the Rescue Squad. With Ahmed to run interference for him with the bureaucracy, George becomes a "consultant," and his talents grow. And George begins to change. With each success he discovers more about himself and more about the society he lives in, and he begins to doubt. When a missing computer man's knowledge is put to use by an irresponsible gang of revolutionaries, threatening to destroy The City, George rescues the computerman and meets Larry, warped boy genius and leader of the gang. But Larry asks questions George can't answer, and after Larry escapes, George knows he has to find him to continue the discussion. Only George is captured by Larry and forced to become a tool of Larry's mad iconoclasm. In Larry's control, George's talents pose the greatest threat of all to The City...George himself has become the missing man.
KATHERINE MACLEAN lives in Portland, Maine. She has long been one of the most respected writers of Science Fiction and is the winner of a Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for "The Missing Man," a story which forms part of this novel.

When they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans. They'd come through thirty-six light years of space only to find that another group of humans had settled the plant generations before. Still it was a beautiful place…expect for the contagion.