Список рекомендованных книг-2012 от журнала "Локус" — 84 книги

They are, truly, provably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization.
An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new & almost infinitely more rich & complex existence.
Amidst preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, & she is now wanted--dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android & a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command--find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over 9000 years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Cossont must discover the truth before she's exiled from her people & her civilization forever--or just plain killed.

Есть самиздат "Водородная соната"

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:35

In this first collaboration by science fiction masters 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.

Есть самиздат "Чаша небес"

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:40

Written in a voice that is warmhearted and hauntingly original, Any Day Now is the story of Clay, a small-town boy whose future is all mapped out. It travels as far as an isolated New Mexico commune under threat from a national revolution, with Clay battling to find his place in the new America -- and hoping desperately to forget what happened back East with the girl he loved.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:45

It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age of F***ed Up Shit.” A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.

Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who’s been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time—climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age—Blueprints of the Afterlife will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:48

New York Times bestselling author Tobias S.Buckell shows us a chilling future in Arctic Rising.
The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean. Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself - but in doing so, they may have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Anika Duncan, a pilot for the United Nations Polar Guard, finds herself caught up in a plot by military agencies and corporations who want the Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia loses control of its superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:49

Айвен Форпатрил, кузен Майлза Форкосигана, постоянно влипает в истории, становясь мишенью для дружеских подтруниваний. Вот и на сей раз, пребывая на Комарре, он вынужден заключить фиктивный брак, спасая от преследователей прекрасную беженку с Архипелага Джексона.
Если бы он только мог себе представить, какие неприятности в результате этой аферы свалятся на его голову!..

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:50

Civil war on the world of the atevi is over but diplomatic disputes and political infighting continue unabated. Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with the dominant Western Association, has just returned to the capital from his country home. But his sojourn was anything but restful, for Bren and his associates have had a small war of their own to contend with, ending with rebel leader, Machigi, joining the atevi congress representing the rebels as a member state.

Machigi, to Bren’s utter shock, has invoked an ancient law, changing Bren's role as negotiator for Tabini-aiji, Ilisidi, and other leaders of the Western Association to that of a specialized, entirely neutral negotiator between atevi adversaries. Tabini-aiji is enraged to have lost his personal negotiator, and Bren is becoming embroiled in a development that could result in his assassination.

But there are even more dangerous things afoot, as a crisis brews inside the immensely dangerous Assassins’ Guild. The recent dustup with the Shadow Guild may be only the beginning.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:51

На Ганимеде, житнице внешних планет, марсианка-спецназовец становится свидетелем гибели своего взвода, истребленного чудовищным суперсолдатом. На Земле высокопоставленный политик изо всех сил пытается предотвратить межпланетную войну.

В бескрайнем космосе Джеймс Холден и экипаж «Росинанта» заняты поддержанием мира от имени Альянса Внешних Планет. Они соглашаются помочь в поисках пропавшего на Ганимеде ребенка и внезапно обнаруживают, что будущее человечества зависит от того, сможет ли один корабль предотвратить межпланетное вторжение, которое, возможно, уже началось...

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:54

Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.

The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander…and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.

So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:54

Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has evolved in unique and fascinating ways. Now Egan continues his epic tale of alien beings embarked on a desperate voyage to save their world . . . .

The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations–and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship’s life-support capacity to its limits.

When the astronomer Tamara discovers the Object, a meteor whose trajectory will bring it within range of the Peerless, she sees a risky solution to the fuel crisis. Meanwhile, the biologist Carlo searches for a better way to control fertility, despite the traditions and prejudices of their society. As the scientists clash with the ship’s leaders, they find themselves caught up in two equally dangerous revolutions: one in the sexual roles of their species, the other in their very understanding of the nature of matter and energy.

The Eternal Flame lights up the mind with dazzling new frontiers of physics and biology, as only Greg Egan could imagine them.

Есть самиздат раз и два

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:55

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be—she’s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie’s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe’s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father’s old gun . . .

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:56

В недалеком будущем размеренная жизнь пожилой вдовы нарушается сюрреалистическими знамениями и визитами. Столетия спустя грузовой корабль «Нова Свинг» берет на борт нелегальный груз, и плата за его провоз превзойдет все мыслимые ожидания. В то же самое время на далекой планете, в зоне, где обычная физика и не ночевала, безымянная женщина-коп пытается навести порядок и заодно отыскать себя.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:56

After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors. The end of a centuries-long holy war between her country, Nasheen, and neighboring Chenja has flooded the streets of Nasheen with unemployed - and unemployable - soldiers whose frustrations have brought the nation to the brink of civil war.

Not everyone likes this tenuous and unpredictable "peace," however, and somebody has kidnapped a key politician whose death could trigger a bloody government takeover. With aliens in the sky and revolution on the ground, Nyx assembles a team of mad magicians, torturers,and mutant shape-shifters for an epic journey across a flesh-eating desert in search of a man she's not actually supposed to kill.

Trouble is, killing is the only thing Nyx is good at. And she already left this man to die...

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:56

Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child?

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:57

Humanity's future rests on the shoulders of a Child from the past, and she must never know of the battles being fought for her . . .

In the system of Fomalhaut, a war is being fought. The Quicks came long ago, refugees from the Solar System. The True arrived later, to find a declining civilisation and a system ripe for the taking. Then the Ghosts appeared, no longer human, unknowable, powerful and determined to drive out the Quick and the True. The battle continues, but the outcome is uncertain.

Three lives will intersect, because there is something at the centre of their universe, something dangerous and growing and powerful. Something that is worth fighting for. And it will change everybody's life.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 18:58

For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact -- and grandest prize -- in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets.

Something must justify the blood and treasure that have been spent. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the Puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs. Everyone knows that the Puppeteers are cowards.

But the crises converging upon the trillion Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas:

Adventurer Louis Wu and the exiled Puppeteer known only as Hindmost, marooned together for more than a decade, escaped from the Ringworld before it disappeared. And throughout those years, as he studied Ringworld technology, Hindmost has plotted to reclaim his power ...

Ol't'ro, the Gw'oth ensemble mind -- and the Fleet of Worlds' unsuspected puppet master for a century -- is deviously brilliant. And increasingly unbalanced ...

Proteus, the artificial intelligence on which, in desperation, the Puppeteers rely to manage their defenses, is outgrowing its programming -- and the supposed constraints on its initiative ...

Sigmund Ausfaller, paranoid and disgraced hero of the lost human colony of New Terra, knows that something threatens his adopted home world -- and that it must be stopped ...

Achilles, the megalomaniac Puppeteer -- twice banished, and twice rehabilitated -- sees the Fleet of Worlds' existential crisis as a new opportunity to reclaim supreme power. Whatever the risks ...

One way or another, the fabled race of Puppeteers may have come to the end of their days.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 19:01

В далеком будущем мир стал совсем другим. Солнечная система управляется вездесущим искусственным интеллектом. Постчеловечество разделилось на богов и обслуживающих их мертвых душ. От Юпитера остались лишь струны, прорезающие космическое пространство, а Земля поражена загадочной цифровой инфекцией, названной диким кодом. Однако, несмотря на многочисленные изменения, людская природа осталась прежней: могущественные псевдобоги охвачены все теми же страстями — стремлением к власти, жаждой наживы и желанием жить вечно.
И, обладая определенным талантом, все это можно украсть.
Знаменитый на всю Солнечную систему джентльмен-грабитель Жан ле Фламбер способен похитить все, что угодно. Но, попав в тюрьму, он вынужден дорого заплатить за свое освобождение. Влиятельная спасительница требует, чтобы он нашел способ проникнуть в разум живого бога. Для выполнения этой непростой задачи Жан вместе с наемницей Миели отправляется на Землю, которая давно перестала быть гостеприимным местом…

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 19:01

One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world’s dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery…

Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice—the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur—something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished.

But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed—secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 19:02

Что бы ни случилось, читатель, запомни: убийца — Стеклянный Джек, даже если преступление невозможно, даже если все улики указывают на другого. И в аристократических орбитальных особняках, и в трущобных пузырях пояса астероидов знают, что для Стеклянного Джека нет ничего невозможного. Его не остановят ни стражи порядка, ни вакуум, ни абсолютный холод, ни правительство, ни всемогущие, генетически модифицированные, корпоративные семейства, ни Закон, регулирующий каждый вздох любого гражданина.

И потому не стоит удивляться, что когда Солнечную систему потрясли слухи о технологии, позволяющей перемещаться быстрее скорости света, в них тоже оказался замешан Стеклянный Джек. Разве мог самый опасный, жестокий и умный преступник XXVI века пройти мимо того, чего по законам физики просто не может быть?

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 19:02

Кто сказал, что счастливое будущее человечества невозможно?
2312 год.
Люди освоили планеты и астероиды Солнечной системы, побеждено экономическое неравенство, справедливым распределением благ управляет компьютерная система.
И вдруг всеобщий рай «идеального будущего» начинает трещать по швам. Космическая диверсия уничтожает Терминатор – прекрасный меркурианский город на рельсах. Уроженка Меркурия, дизайнер новых миров Свон Эр Хон, чудом оставшаяся в живых, прилетает на другую планету, и… становится свидетелем следующей диверсии. Новая планета – и новый кошмар. Свон Эр Хон не может остаться в стороне. Она подключается к смертельно опасному расследованию…

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Solnechnaja2201 17 июня 2017 г., 19:02