Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire
A sobering depiction of war's brutalities, and the violence and inhumanity that the history books leave out, now relaunched with a stunning new look.
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a team of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eight-foot red-fur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at center. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long trek.
Ringworld: the most stunning artifact in known space, an articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area. Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstasy), the aged Kzin warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of mad Nessus, return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. IN the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's incredible secrets...
Romanticko-historický román je zasazen do konce 16. století, do Anglie za vlády královny Alžběty. Krásná mladá dívka Sára, aby unikla z područí despotického otčíma, souhlasí s nabídkou k sňatku od lorda Devenporta, kterého však nikdy neviděla. Ví, že sňatek je výměnou za její pozemky v Irsku, ale přesto ji urazí, že se lord nechá při svatbě zastoupit a hodlá ji "uklidit" na jedno své sídlo. Aby se mu pomstila, využije přímluvy své tety a stane se jednou z královniných dvorních dam. Svojí krásou zaujme královnina oblíbence, svého manžela a stane se jeho milenkou. Zamýšlená pomsta však vyústí v hluboký milostný vztah. Jednoduchému příběhu tvoří kulisy poměry na dvoře královny Alžběty, vztah Anglie a Španělska a irský odboj.
First in a unique and acclaimed mystery series set in ancient Rome. Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, the young advocate who is defending a man accused of patricide. In a society where neither slave nor citizen is free to speak without reprisal, Gordianus is hired to learn the truth.
The concluding volume in a series of science fiction thrillers evolved from the works of Arthur C. Clarke. This volume includes a section of computer- generated tech specs and blueprints of the spacecraft and hardware from Venus Prime.
Recovering from a mission on Mars, Sparta finds herself the guest of the Space Board. But relaxation is short-lived as Sparta soon sets out to investigate the Board itself. It appears that members of Free Spirit, a religious cult bent on galactical control, have infiltrated the Space Board. schovat popis
Životopis Jacka Kerouaca. – Verze s jinou obálkou.
