После развала космической Империи исчез Нуль-Излучатель – супероружие, способное распылять небесные тела в любой точке Галактики. Его ищут многие, в том числе правитель Зеруат, задумавший уничтожить все обитаемые планеты, кроме конечно же собственной. Он нанимает троих сотрудников небольшого сыскного агентства «Антираспад» и…
Антон Орлов
Роман Станислава Лема «Солярис» – шедевр жанра научной фантастики, в котором писатель предугадал главную проблему нашей цивилизации: огромный разрыв между высочайшим уровнем научной и технической мысли и моральным развитием человека. Что готовят нам грядущие встречи с иными мирами? Что способны им принести даже лучшие из нас? Ответы на эти вопросы пытаются найти герои романа, вступившие в контакт с разумными существами иного мира.
Станислав Лем
Роджер Желязны
Роджер Джозеф Желязны
Дуглас Хилл
Біля берегів Аргентини з'являється дивна морська істота, яку забобонні рибалки охрестили «морським дияволом». Багатій Педро Зуріта, власних судна «Медуза», вирішує впіймати «диявола», щоби той шукув для нього під водою перли. З часом виявляється, що таємниця «морського диявола» прямо пов'язана з професійною діяльність геніального вченого професора Сальваторе...
Олександр Бєляєв
Максим Дегтярев
Роман в высшей степени динамичный, остросюжетный, изобилует достижениями компьютерной и иной техники недалекого будущего. Считается предтечей жанра киберпанка.На русском языке опубликован в 1989 г. в журнале «Вокруг Света»***Перевод В.Баканова и А.Корженевского (сокращённый журнальный вариант)
Роджер Желязны , Фред Томас Саберхаген
Игорь Денисенко
Последняя часть трилогии «Очаг на башне» — «Человек напротив». Как всегда, хочется отметить вклад издательства «АСТ» в оформление и в название (изданная книга озаглавлена просто «На чужом пиру», а на обложке на фоне стартующего шаттла изображен некий молодец, пораженными непонятным недугом глазами вглядывающийся в туманную даль).
Вячеслав Михайлович Рыбаков
Вячеслав Рыбаков
С чего все начинается? Кто был раньше курица или яйцо?Вилсон нашел в будущем машину времени и отправил Вилсона за Вилсоном, чтобы он нашел в будущем машину времени, благодаря которой он попадет в будущее и будет хорошо жить и отправит Вилсона на поиски Вилсона…Так что же было раньше?fantlab.ru © Sashenka
Роберт Хайнлайн
Игорь Викторович Пидоренко
Аннотация: Роман: Фантастика. Это НЕ фэнтэзи. Это, скорей, НФ. Причем НФ космическая: речь идет о полете на Марс. И даже, я бы сказал, утопия.
Александр Юрьевич Романов
It's the personal implications of first contact that Sawyer (Illegal Alien) dramatizes in his disturbing and uneven new novel. Set in Canada, circa 2017, the story focuses on Heather and her computer-scientist husband, Kyle, who have separated following the suicide of their daughter Mary. When younger daughter Rebecca confronts her parents and accuses her father of molesting her, the family starts to shake apart. Redemption comes in the unlikely form of alien altruism: the messages from Alpha Centauri that psychologist Heather has studied for years prove to be blueprints for a "psychospace" device that enables her to see into the overmind of humanity, and to know anyones deepest thoughts. In a flash, Kyle is exonerated, Rebecca apologizesAand her nasty, manipulative therapist is blamed for the false accusation. Although the novel ends with Heather greeting the first starship from Alpha Centauri, the bulk of the plot centers around the family's own mystery, and so the conclusion comes off as anti-climactic. Sawyer also includes too many digressions about the cultural significance of Seinfeld, Star Trek bloopers and quantum physics, delivering a tale that ultimately works more as a study of the human heart than as believable story of alien encounter. (Publishers Weekly)
Robert J. Sawyer
Кір Буличов
Брайан Стэблфорд
Брайан М Стэблфорд
Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimy blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?
Aliens, Tosoks, have finally made contact with Earth, but there are only seven of them, and they've arrived in a disabled spaceship. The Tosoks are intelligent and surprisingly easy to communicate with, and are happy to tour Earth and see what humans have to offer. But during a stop in Los Angeles, one of the human scientists traveling with the Tosoks is gruesomely murdered, and all evidence points to the alien Hask. The Los Angeles Police Department is determined to indict Hask for the crime, even though the aliens have little concept of laws or crime as we understand them. The only thing the U.S. government can do is secretly procure the services of Dale Rice, a leading civil rights lawyer, and hope he can clear Hask of the charges. But as the trial progresses, evidence indicates a cover-up by one or more of the aliens. Humanity's survival — not just Hask's fate — might hinge on the jury's verdict.
Canadian author Robert Sawyer once again presents likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas in this smoothly readable near-future SF novel. Astronomer Sarah Halifax, who translated the first message from aliens and helped prepare humanity's response, is 87 when the second, encrypted message arrives 38 years later. To aid the decoding, a tycoon buys rejuvenation treatment for Sarah and Don, her husband of 60 years; however, only Don becomes young again. While coping with the physical indignities of old age, Sarah tries to figure out the puzzle of the second message. The bond between Don and Sarah continues, even while Don is joyfully and guiltily discovering the pleasures of living in a young body again. They want to do what's right for each other and the rest of humanity — for the aliens, too — if they can figure out what "right" could be. By its nature, a story about moral choices tends to get talky, but the talk is intelligent and performed by sympathetic and believable people.
Pierre Tardivel, a French Canadian geneticist, works on identifying junk DNA for the Human Genome Project. There is a 50 percent chance that Pierre is carrying the gene for Huntington's disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre to succeed in a race against time to complete his research. But a strange set of circumstances — including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths — draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor.
Jake Sullivan watched his father, suffering from a rare condition, collapse and linger in a vegetative state, and he's incredibly paranoid because he inherited that condition. When mindscanning technology becomes available, he has himself scanned, which involves dispatching his biological body to the moon and assuming an android body. In possession of everything the biological Jake Sullivan had on Earth, android Jake finds love with Karen, who has also been mindscanned. Meanwhile, biological Jake discovers there is finally another, brand-new cure for his condition. Moreover, Karen's son sues her, declaring that his mother is dead, and android Karen has no right to deprive him of his considerable inheritance. Biological Jake, unable to leave the moon because of the contract he signed, becomes steadily more unstable, until finally, in a fit of paranoia, he takes hostages. Sawyer's treatment of identity issues — of what copying consciousness may mean and how consciousness is defined — finds expression in a good story that is a new meditation on an old SF theme, the meaning of being human. (Amazon.com)Won John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2006
Nominated for Nebula Award for best Novella in 2005
Роберт Шекли
The novel begins with adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton waking up after his death on a strange new world made up of one ongoing river. He discovers that he is but one of billions of previously dead personalities from throughout Earth's history stretching from the Neolithic age through 2008 AD also "resurrected". At first the resurrectees are primarily focused on survival, though their basic needs for food are mysteriously taken care of; but eventually Burton decides to make it his mission to find the headwaters of the River and discover the purpose and intention of humanity's resurrection. Along the way he is enslaved and then partnered with Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring, discovers the existence of a mysterious organization responsible for the resurrection of humanity, and is recruited by a rogue member of this group to take down their carefully laid plans.Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1972
Phillip Jose Farmer