James P. Hogan0.0 Waking up one morning in another city and in the body of a stranger, teacher Richard Jarrow begins a desperate pursuit of his true identity in a world where individual expression is prohibited.
Orson Scott Card0.0 Malfunctioning due to its own failing system, the Oversaul, an artificial intelligence caring for the colonists on the planet Harmony, could bring about catastrophic war on the planet unless someone repairs it.
Нил Стивенсон3.9 Мир недалекого будущего, расколотый на сотни мелких государств, соседствует с миром виртуальным, объединенным в компьютерную Метавселенную. И тут и там не прекращается война за «Лавину» — наркотик счастья в мире настоящем и старейший из вирусов, какой угрожал когда-нибудь миру виртуальному!
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John Varley0.0 Steel Beach is the story of Luna, the colony set up by Earth on the Moon, which became the primary home of the human race when an alien attack destroyed the mother planet. At its center is Hildy Johnson, top reporter for one of Luna’s tabloid newspapers, who has always had mixed feelings about the virtues of Luna. In many ways this artificial world is a paradise: science has cured physical ailments from cancer to bad breath, people live practically forever, and the Central Computer system keeps the climate comfortable and the air clean. If a man gets tired of his gender he can easily become a woman. And vice versa.
Beneath all this perfection, however, trouble is brewing. Hildy can’t understand why the ease and pleasure of life make him feel suicidal. And from the Central Computer he learns that others share his feelings. In fact, the Computer confesses, it’s been feeling depressed lately itself…
The situation is headed for a blow-up, with Hildy at its center. But out of catastrophe will come the chance to rethink the meaning of paradise, and in particular the understanding that one man’s paradise is another man’s stifling prison.
Robert L. Forward0.0 Read the tale of Randy Hunter, billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight and explores far-flung worlds in a future filled with technological wonders. The future physics is mind-boggling but firmly grounded in the science of today, and the action never stops.
Рекс Денвер Боро0.0 The success of Katherine Jenkins' campaign for President spurs the Democratic and Republican parties to unite against her, while the press searches for a secret in her past that could discredit her
Урсула Ле Гуин4.2 Один из лучших романов 70-х гг. и едва ли не лучший образец социально-философской фантастики. Ле Гуин удалось совместить яркий и серьезный сюжет с глубоким анализом моделей общественного устройства. Два мира, две планеты — и извечный конфликт индивидуализма и коллективизма, коммунизма и демократии, власти и личности. Поиск среднего пути труден, почти невозможен. А между тем оба изображенных мира содержат целый ряд правильных идей, отсутствующих у оппонентов. Герои — философы и люди действия, властители и обыватели — пытаются найти свое решение. Вместе с ними — и мы, читатели...
Сорочан Александр Юрьевич, 2000
