Author : Alfred Bester
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575094192
One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.
Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312536631
"Private William Mandella hadn't wanted to go to war against the Taurans ...."--p. [4] of cover.
Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765342515
Santaroga seems to be nothing more than a prosperous farming community, but there is something different about it. It has no crime at all. Outsiders find no houses for sale or rent in the valley, and no one ever moves out. Maybe Santaroga is the last outpost of American individualism. Or maybe there is something extraordinary at work there--something far more disturbing than anyone imagines.
Author : James L. Halperin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1999-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345439805
Prepare to have your conception of truth rocked to its very foundation. It is the year 2004. Violent crime is the number one political issue in America. Now, the Swift and Sure Anti-Crime Bill guarantees a previously convicted violent criminal one fair trial, one quick appeal, then immediate execution. To prevent abuse of the law, a machine must be built that detects lies with 100 percent accuracy. Once perfected, the Truth Machine will change the face of the world. Yet the race to finish the Truth Machine forces one man to commit a shocking act of treachery, burdening him with a dark secret that collides with everything he believes in. Now he must conceal the truth from his own creation . . . or face his execution. By turns optimistic and chilling--and always profound--The Truth Machine is nothing less than a history of the future, a spellbinding chronicle that resonates with insight, wisdom . . . and astounding possibility. "PROFOUND." --Associated Press
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345336965
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!
Author : James L. Halperin
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Cryonics-the freezing of human beings for later reanimation-has become commonplace in the 21st century in this innovative techno-thriller.
Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593640349
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING NOVEMBER 3rd, 2023 Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795324979
In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times
Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316462616
An "engaging and awe-inspiring"(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels. Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane -- two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences -- must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence . . .
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553287893
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization
