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Teranesia Greg Egan
ISBN: 978-0-575-10546-1 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Gollancz Язык: Английский РазвернутьAs a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to…
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Зодиак Нил Стивенсон
ISBN: 5-17-039587-6, 5-9713-4011-5, 5-9762-1589-0, 978-985-13-9951-8 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: АСТ Москва, Хранитель Язык: Русский РазвернутьМир - на грани экологической катастрофы. Гигантские корпорации превратили океаны в свалку для промышленных отходов. Всем наплевать? Положим - не всем. Отчаянный Сенгеймон Тейлор и в одиночку неплохо борется с многочисленными врагами! Кто он? Последний самурай техно-эры? "Враг государства номер один"? Просто - обычный псих с экологической идефикс? Читайте ироническую антиутопию мастера нонконформистской фантастики!
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Bios Robert Charles Wilson
ISBN: 978-0812575743 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: Tor Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly toxic to human beings. The entire planet is a permanent Level Four Hot Zone. Despite that, Isis is the most interesting discovery of the millennium: a parallel biology with lessons to teach us about our own nature. It's also the hardest of hardship posts, the loneliest place in the universe. Zoe Fisher was born to explore Isis.…
