Список рекомендованных книг-2013 от журнала "Локус" — 75 книг

Брайан Уилсон Олдисс – классик английской и мировой фантастики, лауреат 2 премий Хьюго, 2 Небьюла, 5 премий Британской Ассоциации НФ, а также множества других наград, автор около 40 романов и более 30 сборников рассказов. Перед вами – его последний роман.
Итак, свершилось! Человечество, профинансированное Соединенными Университетами Мира, основало на Марсе колонию.
Шесть башен, заселенных по лингвистическому принципу. Несколько тысяч человек из разных стран, твердо намеренных сделать эту негостеприимную планету своим домом. В условиях дефицита воды и воздуха, при строжайшей дисциплине выжить могут только самые отважные, беззаветно преданные идее строительства нового мира. Трудности? Ну и что?! Испытания? Не страшно! Однако за десять прошедших лет на Марсе не родилось ни одного живого ребенка…

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 09:59

Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption.

Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:01

War threatens to destroy Earth’s last hope in the final installment of the Owner trilogy!

Alan Saul is now part human and part machine. He craves the stars, yet his human side still controls him; he can’t leave his to sister die. He must leave Argus Station and stage a dangerous rescue. But Saul’s robots make his crew feel increasingly redundant, sowing the seeds of mutiny and betrayal.

Serene Galahad, Earth’s ruthless dictator, hides her crimes from a cowed populace as she desperately readies a new attack on Saul. She aims to destroy her enemy in a vicious display of violence.

The Scourge limps back to Earth, its earlier mission to annihilate Saul a failure. Some members of the decimated crew plan to murder Galahad before she has them murdered for their failure, but Clay Ruger plans to negotiate for his life. Events build to a climax as Ruger holds humanity’s greatest asset—seeds to rebuild a dying Earth. This stolen Gene Bank data is offered at a price, but what will Galahad pay for humanity’s future?

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:37

«Беззумный Аддам» — третья часть трилогии, в которую входят «Орикс и Коростель» и «Год потопа». Книга получила восторженные отзывы критики, вошла в списки бестселлеров New York Times и Washington Post, была названа лучшей книгой, по версии The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail.

«Беззумный Аддам» — роман-антиутопия, но, к сожалению, даже самые невероятные фантазии иногда становятся действительностью. Читатель, надеемся, услышит предостережение автора — именно в этом залог того, что человечество избежит страшного будущего.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 1 мая 2016 г., 01:02

For more than a year, Heather O’Grainne and her small band of heroes, operating out of Pueblo, Colorado, have struggled to pull the United States back together after it shattered under the impact of the event known as Daybreak. Now they are poised to bring the three or four biggest remaining pieces together, with a real President and Congress, under the full Constitution again. Heather is very close to fulfilling her oath, creating a safe haven for civilization to be reborn.

But other forces are rising too.

Some people like the new life better...

In a devastated, splintered, postapocalyptic United States, with technology thrown back to biplanes, black powder, and steam trains, a tiny band of visionaries struggles to re-create Constitutional government and civilization itself, as a new dark age takes shape around them.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:41

Эмили – обычная девушка с улицы, раскручивающая праздную публику на заведомо проигрышную игру в карты. Она не претендует ни на что большее. Но однажды незнакомые люди приглашают ее в особую школу для особенных учеников. Это потому, что Эмили хорошо обращается со словами, говорят они. Девушку учат управлять сознанием других людей с помощью необычных звукосочетаний. Постепенно Эмили понимает: существует такое слово, с помощью которого она сможет заставить кого угодно совершить что угодно. Им можно убедить, а можно и убить. Это слово сделает его владельца равным Богу. Но дело в том, что Богом хочет быть не только Эмили…

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:42

Mankind’s future in this galaxy could be all but infinite....

There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years—and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity.

But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. There is only hardship...loneliness...emptiness.

But that’s where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn’t voluntary. It must be coerced....

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:44

It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay.

But there's far a darker business going on in the background—a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent. Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him. For safety reasons, Tabini wants Bren and Ilisidi to take charge of Cajeiri, and protect him and his young guests. They themselves are very likely targets of whatever's going on, no question of it. So is Cajeiri. But having the targets separated and contained is an advantage.

It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep the security problem secret...and let a lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met...inside the best security they can manage.

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:47

На орбите Урана неожиданно появляется гигантское нерукотворное образование в форме кольца, которое приковывает к себе всеобщее внимание. Однако любопытство сменяется настоящей паникой, когда в загадочном Кольце бесследно исчезает космический корабль. Куда он подевался? Что явилось причиной подобной аномалии? И что же на самом деле находится по другую сторону этих адских врат? Ученые, журналисты и военные с Земли и Марса направляются к Кольцу, чтобы исследовать таинственный объект. Среди прочих судов этой обширной флотилии оказывается и «Росинант» под командованием Джеймса Холдена. В то время как посланники человеческой расы пытаются определить, открывает ли Кольцо новые возможности или таит в себе угрозу, Холдену предстоит столкнуться с куда более серьезной опасностью…

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:48

In a universe where the laws of physics and the speed of light are completely alien to our own, the travelers on the ship Peerless have completed a generations-long struggle to develop advanced technology in a desperate attempt to save their home world. But as tensions mount over the risks of turning the ship around and starting the long voyage home, a new complication arises: the prospect of constructing a messaging system that will give the Peerless news of its own future.

While some see this as a guarantee of safety and a chance to learn of their mission’s ultimate success, others are convinced that the knowledge will be oppressive or worse—that the system could be abused. The conflict over this proposed communication system tears the travelers’ society apart, culminating in terrible violence. To save the Peerless and its mission, two rivals must travel to a world where time runs in reverse.

Есть самиздат

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:50

Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right.

An atomic disaster near the French-German border has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, and scientists are feverishly working on possible solutions. It becomes increasingly apparent that the key to future salvation lies in the past. In 2052 a secret research facility in the Vatican is recruiting scientists for a mission to restore the flora of the irradiated territories. The institute claims to have time travel. When Domenica's sometime-lover tells her that he knows her future but that she must decide her own fate, she enlists despite his ambiguous warning.

The Middle Ages hold Domenica spellbound. She immerses herself in the mysteries, puzzles, and peculiarities of a culture foreign to her, though she risks changing the past with effects far more disastrous than radiation poisoning. Perhaps there is more than one Domenica, and more than one catastrophe
In the tradition of Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick, Wolfgang Jeschke's The Cusanus Game is a novel of future disaster in Europe by the grand master of German science fiction

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:51

This is a story of hope. Grace Delarua, a civil servant with the government of Cygnus Beta, remembers when the Sadiri arrived on their planet, a galactic hinterland for pioneers and refugees.
This is a story of survival. Dllenahkh, leader of the small group of Sadiri settlers on Cygnus Beta, remembers the cool strong blues and gentle sunlight of his home world. He also remembers the moment he was told his planet was destroyed.
This is a story of love. Now they must work together to rebuild his decimated population by searching for the last surviving members of his race.
This is a story about finding the best of all possible worlds.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:52

In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his ship before. It was his birthplace, his home and his future. He's going to get it back. McAuley's latest novel is set in the same far-flung future as his last few novels, but this time he takes on a much more personal story. This is a tale of revenge, of murder and morality, of growing up and discovering the world around you. Throughout the novel we follow Hari's viewpoint, and as he unravels the mysteries that led to his stranding, we discover them alongside him. But throughout his journeys, Hari must always bear one thing in mind. Nobody is to be trusted.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:53

There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere: Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive-because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him-but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger . . . as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:53

В недалеком будущем Тибор Тарент, житель ИРВБ, Исламской республики Великобритании, привлекает к себе внимание спецслужб после того, как его жена становится жертвой странного оружия. Оно уничтожает все, что попадает под его воздействие, оставляя после себя выжженный правильный треугольник. Таких треугольников становится все больше, и их размеры растут на глазах. Первая мировая война. Фокусник Томми Трент отправляется на фронт с секретной миссией - сделать британские самолеты невидимыми для врага. Наши дни. Физик-теоретик изобретает новый метод передачи материи, последствия которого оказываются крайне разрушительными.

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Solnechnaja2201 3 февраля 2018 г., 19:13

Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars.

The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial worlds—holoships—putting their faith in a physics they barely understand. Chiku’s ship is called Zanzibar—and over time, she will discover it contains an awesome secret—one which will lead her to question almost every certainty about her voyage, and its ultimate destiny…

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:56

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps.

There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together.

There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change.

And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain.

SHAMAN is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man's journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:58

She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.

Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.

In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 10:59

Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades - back to the dawn of radio communications - human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed. Cassie's parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding. Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic has worked. Until now. Because the killers are back. And they're not human.

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Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 11:00

Set three months before the deadly asteroid 2011GV1 is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. Hank's search leads him to a visibly collapsing East Coast landscape where anti-immigrant militia patrol the shores, fending off droves of people fleeing the impact zone of the asteroid. And it isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation. But the Last Policeman sequel asks questions well beyond whodunit. What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you?

Раздел: Романы. Научная фантастика

Solnechnaja2201 25 февраля 2016 г., 11:00