This author explores vast cosmic landscapes and incredible adventures, drawing inspiration from classic and contemporary science fiction. Their writing is characterized by a blend of awe and suspense, pulling readers into distant galaxies. The author focuses on themes of space, stars, and the human drive for discovery. Their stories are imaginative and reflect a lifelong passion for the genre.
Exploring the imaginative concept of robots having dreams, this book delves into the intersection of technology and consciousness. It raises philosophical questions about artificial intelligence, emotions, and what it means to be sentient. Through engaging narratives and thought-provoking scenarios, readers are invited to consider the inner lives of robots and the implications of their potential desires and aspirations. The book combines elements of science fiction with deep reflections on humanity and the future of machines.
It is a hundred millennia after Iron Gods. The Spin is nearing the end of its life. Its inhabitants are divided between those who live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities - vrealities - and those who scrape a living in what remains of the real world. The massive servers needed to maintain the vrealities are draining the resources of the Spin. And an escalating, desperate and seemingly futile war has begun between those who tend the servers and those who believe they should be shut down, killing millions. But one amongst these unwitting combatants will discover the real nature of the vrealities - and his role in their fate. From a remote star system, a being has been observing the Spin for several lifetimes. He is Skarbo the Horologist and he is about to die for the very last time. He has come to accept that he will never visit the object of his studies but is coerced into making one last journey. His final destination lies across a war-torn galaxy. And there he will learn of the Spin's past - and its astonishing future . . . Returning to the extraordinarily envisioned artificial planetary cluster called the Spin, Stone Clock is the dazzling new space opera from the acclaimed author of Creation Machine and Iron Gods.
Debut novelist Andrew Bannister comes to the genre with his talents fully
formed in the ambitious, compulsively readable Creation Machine . . . [it] has
everything: intriguing far-future societies, exotic extra-terrestrial races,
artificial galaxies and alien machines dormant for millions of years.
Bannister holds it all together with enviable aplomb. Eric Brown GUARDIAN
Bannister has the knack of making the extraordinary seem normal and the normal
seem extraordinary. It all comes together in dazzling, pin-sharp storytelling,
where humour. acute social commentary and some terrific aliens jostle
together. Jamie Buxton DAILY MAIL
Kniha popisuje teplá moře celého světa, od často navštěvovaných a známých míst, kde fungují oblíbená a vybavená letoviska, po málo známé pobřežní útesy, kam je přístup možný jen na kajutových lodích za příznivého počasí.
Bohatý podmořský život, od fascinujících drobných oceánských forem života přes pestré měkké korály až po vzrušující hloubkové potápění a krmení žraloků, je podrobně zdokumentován v zasvěceném textu napsaném týmem uznávaných specialistů na určitý region.
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