Europe is crumbling. The Xian Flu pandemic and ongoing economic crises have fractured the European Union, the borderless Continent of the Schengen Agreement is a distant memory, and new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns, a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests; it's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has come who may hold the key to unlocking the mystery.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 17:01

В прошлом Брэк была мощным десантным кораблем на службе непомерных колонизационных амбиций лорда Радча. Теперь, получив простое человеческое тело, она стала капитаном флота на отдаленной базе Атхоек, где сумела завоевать уважение и власть. Защищая интересы обитателей базы, Брэк готова противостоять политическим интригам ее руководителей, вести переговоры с загадочными и опасными пришельцами Пресгер и погружаться в тайны, скрывающиеся по ту сторону Призрачного шлюза. Однако настоящая угроза исходит от Анаандер Мианнаи, правительницы Радча, разделившейся на несколько сущностей и ведущей борьбу с самой собой. Ставки высоки, и, чтобы вступить в решающую схватку с главным врагом, Брэк понадобятся любые союзники, поддержкой которых она сможет заручиться.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 3 февраля 2018 г., 21:10

Трисолярианский кризис продолжается. У землян есть 400 лет, чтобы предотвратить инопланетное вторжение. Но угроза полного уничтожения, вопреки ожиданиям, не объединяет человечество. Сверхдержавы отстаивают свои интересы, космические флоты, становясь независимой политической силой, вовсе теряют связь с Землей. Тотальный контроль над научно-техническими разработками со стороны чужой цивилизации, во много раз превосходящей нашу в развитии, не оставляет людям шанса на победу. Исход войны решат проекты "Отвернувшихся" — лучших мыслителей планеты.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 6 августа 2018 г., 23:18

Луна хочет тебя убить, и у нее есть тысячи способов добиться своего. Вакуум, радиация, удушающая пыль, слабеющие кости… Луна - новое государство, где нет законов, но есть бесконечные договоренности, где за воздух и информацию постоянно надо платить, и всем правят пять Драконов - пять индустриальных кланов. Между ними давно поделены сферы, каждый занимается своим делом, но основатели кланов стареют, их смерть уже близка, и между многочисленными наследниками развязывается жестокая борьба за новые сферы. Адриане Корте восемьдесят. Ее семья управляет корпорацией «Корта Элиу». Компания выжила в жестоких корпоративных войнах, но приобрела немало врагов. И теперь, когда с таким трудом завоеванный мир начинает трещать по швам, дети Адрианы должны спасти империю матери от развала… а еще от самих себя. Так начинается один из самых масштабных научно-фантастических романов последних лет, эпическая сага об интригах, предательствах и мести в зримом, жестоком, неожиданном и потрясающе реалистичном мире будущего.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 13:01

James Morrow's Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society―£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being―she decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send her off on a wild adventure―a voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andes―bound for the Galápagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 17:14

In the third book in The Red Trilogy, former Army Lt. James Shelley becomes a black ops sniper working for the Red—a suspected rogue artificial intelligence that is ripped from today’s headlines.

James Shelley has left his lover, Delphi, and his companion-in-arms, Jayne Vasquez, with a fortune acquired from a fallen oligarch. They believe him to be dead, and he doesn’t try to set the record straight. His long-running question has been answered: There are other soldiers like him who have served the purposes of the Red—and he has accepted his place among them. As a soldier of the Red he pursues covert missions designed to nudge history away from existential threats—but that doesn’t mean the world is growing more orderly. It’s only in the froth of a “managed chaos” that human potential can grow and thrive. Shelley’s missions eventually take him into orbit—and into conflict with those he loves—Delphi and Jaynie—who are determined to escape the influence of the Red.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 17:16

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart…

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 17:18

A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell….

The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women.

Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7.

Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape.

But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 17:20