Alastair Reynolds4.0 From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.
A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur—and for humanity—peace is not to be.
On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.
Passengers—combatants from both sides of the war—are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life.
Lois McMaster Bujold4.1 On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly changed, and his life is in danger from those who envy or fear him.
Set in the fantasy world of the author's acclaimed novels THE CURSE OF CHALION, PALADIN OF SOULS and THE HALLOWED HUNT, this novella has the depth of characterization and emotional complexity that distinguishes all Bujold's work.
Nnedi Okorafor3.6 Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself - but first she has to make it there, alive.
Альетт де Бодар4.0 The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly.
Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was never seen again.
But now the Dai Viet Empire itself is under siege, on the verge of a war against an enemy that turns their own mindships against them; and the Empress, who once gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in desperate needs of its weapons. Meanwhile, on a small isolated space station, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, to the height of the Citadel's power.
But the Citadel's disappearance still extends chains of grief and regrets all the way into the fraught atmosphere of the Imperial Court; and this casual summoning of the past might have world-shattering consequences...
Greg Egan3.5 Another great entry. Years earlier when Vesta was colonized, all agreed that their decedents would share equally in the any profits made. The Sivadier family brought more to the effort and their offspring would be paid more and this was agreed to by the original settlers. Generations later, a campaign was started by, let's face it, envious, people to label the ancestors of the current generation of Sivadier's as cunning thieves who stole from the others and were now demanding that the “freeloaders” pay them a tax. Because they are such a minority the tax passes and a bit of a peaceful rebellion breaks out. A Sivadier is beaten to death in public and then the rebellion turns nasty leading to persecution and the only thing to do is escape Vesta by riding the large pieces of basalt that are being sent to Ceres, a neutral outpost. A ship visiting Vesta decides to carry eight-hundred “wanted” criminals off the asteroid, heading for Ceres. When Vesta sends a warship they are left with a choice of handing over the eight-hundred or risk the lives of the four-thousand riders of basalt, the courses of which have been slightly altered by Vesta.
Нил Гейман4.1 На сей раз Бальдур Лун по прозвищу Тень оказывается в Скалистом крае Дербишира, где ему опять против своей воли предстоит вступить в бой со сверхъестественными силами.
На первый взгляд знакомство с семейной парой в городском пабе не предвещало никакой беды, но в результате это привело к встрече с Чёрным псом.
Элизабет Бир3.5 Любимые совы от Инги Пальцер теперь и на твоих книжных закладках! Выбирай понравившуюся сову, закрепляй на книгу с помощью магнита. Прекрасный, стильный и уникальный подарок! Закладки, которые удобно крепятся с помощью магнитов на одну или несколько страниц. На каждой закладке нарисована забавная сова.
