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Экспедиция, летящая от Земли к другой звездной системе, встречает в космосе нечто невероятное: чашеобразную конструкцию размером с Солнечную систему, внутри которой, подобно двигателю, горит звезда. Довольно быстро выясняется, что Чаша обитаема. Но куда она направляется? И кто ее создал? На объект посылают команду исследователей, но Первый Контакт идет совершенно не по плану. Теперь людям предстоит выяснить цели исполинского артефакта, узнать, кто его населяет, и благодаря этому изменить взгляды даже на свое место во Вселенной.

В майбутньому люди користуються помічником Голос, для того аби отримати буль яку інформацію. Вони зовсім відмовилися від книг та читання... І ось декілька молодих людей, віднайшовши залишки книг - навчаються мистецтву читати і розуміти світ власним розумом...
Що чекає на них? Слава? Визнання? Чи - щось інше...

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling intersteller odyssey in the not-too-distant future.

“If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas―both physical and psychological―then you definitely want to read this book.” ―Analog on the New York Times bestseller Bowl of Heaven

A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system.

Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated―one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape―while the mystery of the Shipstar’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.

Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths.

Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

Роман из цикла «Центр Галактики».

Сборник рассказов и небольших повестей, написанных зарубежными авторами в разные годы XX и XXI веков. Общей тематики нет, единственное, что объединяет произведения из сборника: все они фантастические. Писатели реализуют свои идеи и мысли и в будущем близком, и в будущем очень удалённом, предугадать которое практически невозможно. Здесь постапокалипсис соседствует с космооперой и научной фантастикой, однако какими бы разными ни были произведения, как бы по-разному ни подходили авторы к их написанию, каждый способен заинтересовать и удивить.

Голос создали в помощь людям, которые не умели читать, а потом это превратилось в независимость от «печатного рабства». В конце концов, ведь Голос умел быстро давать нужную информацию и сообщать только то, что тебе действительно необходимо. Однако отдельные личности стали осваивать чтение самостоятельно. Закон не запрещает читать. Просто это считается антисоциальным поведением…

Авторский сборник повестей и рассказов.

Внецикловый роман и сборник повестей и рассказов.

An alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and his team of scientists work at Oak Ridge preparing to have a nuclear bomb ready to drop by the summer of 1944 in an effort to stop the war on the western front. What ensues is an altered account of World War II in this taut thriller.

Второй роман из цикла «Мир-Вок».

Иллюстрации на суперобложке Lgihtform Studios, Э. Смита и Д. Дэвиса. Художники не указаны.

This is a monumental collection of thirty-eight Gregory Benford stories, including some of the best science fiction of the last fifty years, chosen from the more than two hundred he has published to date: At the end of the 1960s, Benford expanded his novella “Deeper than the Darkness,” to become his first novel of the same title in 1970. He hit his stride in the 1970s, making his reputation with stories such as “Doing Lennon” and “In Alien Flesh.” By the end of that decade he had written In the Ocean of Night, the first of his impressive Galactic Center novels. He entered the 1980s a Nebula Award-winner for his classic novel, Timescape.…

A human expedition into deep space encounters a gigantic artifact—a bowl-shaped object with a star at the center, and a habitable area equivalent to many millions of times the Earth’s surface. A landing party is sent to investigate, and they find a variety of strange, exotic creatures populating the Bowl. The landing party is separated into two groups—one is captured by the alien inhabitants, the other is pursued across the exotic and deadly terr

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.

Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated―one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape―while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), 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.

Первый роман из цикла Wok World (Мир-Вок).

SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale

In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), 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.

2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...

2034: Then a reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. For the ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life...to annihilate it.

Now in a new, revised edition, the fourth book of the Nebula Award-winning author's Galactic Center series is a classic tale of man's future and fate - and the greatest mystery from outer space that humanity has ever encountered.