Tim White Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

In den frühen Jahren des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts stand die Erde am Rande der ökologischen Zerstörung. Dann kamen die Aliens Hefn, entschlossen, die sterbende Erde zu retten - und für die Hefn rechtfertigten die Mittel immer den Zweck. Den Menschen wurde eine Frist von neun Jahren gesetzt, um ihre Fehler zu korrigieren - allein, ohne auf die fortschrittliche Technologie der Hefn zurückgreifen zu können. Wenn bis dahin die Ökologie der Erde sich nicht stabilisiert hatte, würden die Hefn das Problem endgültig lösen . . . indem sie die Menschen vollständig beseitigten. Doch langsam, gegen ihren Willen, wurden einige der Hefn tief in das Leben ihrer menschlichen Gegenüber verwickelt. Und für die wenigen Menschen, die sie kennenlernen durften, machten die Hefn einen großen Unterschied: als Mentoren, Forscher, Herrscher . . . und Retter. Aber konnten diese wenigen Freundschaften die Hefn dazu bewegen, zu helfen, einen verwüsteten Planeten - und die Menschheit - zu retten?

"This unusual, enjoyable second novel by Engh ( Arslan ) is a charming picaresque adventure set on another planet. To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile. The Warden, Lethgro, has captured the Exile after his escape from Sollet Castle, and now holds him prisoner on the small sailing ship Mouse. But when an inspector of the Council of Beng is about to board the Mouse , Captain Repnomar, seeing that her friend the Warden does not wish to surrender the Exile to the Council, cuts and runs. And so begins for Lethgro, Repnomar and the Exile (who we have begun to suspect is an Earthman) an around-the-world journey over sea and land, through strange places previously unseen by civilized eye. Engh tells the story in a 19th century prose style: ("For, as he said, they did not know when they would come to water again; and Repnomar thought this so prudent that she filled the little bailer that dangled always at her belt."). This device is appropriate to the level of civilization on this planet, which resembles life here a century ago." -Publisher's Weekly

Román Hello, Ameriko! je napínavým záznamem dobrodružného putování výzkumné evropské výpravy napříč americkým kontinentem po globální klimatické změně, při níž se větší část Spojených států změnila v neobyvatelnou poušť. Nejedná se však „jen" o futuristické sci-fi či utopickou vizi – jak upozorňuje v doslovu ke knize filosof Miroslav Petříček, všechny Ballardovy romány lze označit za sňatek rozumu s noční můrou. Obdobně výstižnou charakteristiku své tvorby nabízí ovšem Ballard sám, když mluví o svém psaní jako o setkání vědy a pornografie na pitevním stole: způsob, jímž proniká pod povrch, je skutečně chirurgicky přesný a nemilosrdný, ale právě proto je často až nesnesitelně blízko traumatům současného světa. Román Hello, Ameriko! je toho – přes všechnu svou (anti)utopičnost – nejlepším důkazem.

Completamente illustrato a colori . 4to pp.144 Brossura (wrappers) Molto buono (Very Good)

Shrouded by its shell of drifting lunar fragments, the planet Mnemosyne is a refuge for creative artists and poets, a place isolated from the desperate, losing struggle of the humans against the Syccans. But then COMsac, the Federation's High Command, comes to Mnemosyne, and suddenly the planet is more a military colony than a place for artists. For Mack Taverner, the dilemma is stark: either go along with the brutal military visitation or join the hopeless resistance and become a 'traitor'. His choice has awesome and extraordinary consequences.

Tim White’s paintings give shape to the fantastic, to the might-have-been and what-still-could-happen. With its frequently optimistic tone and obsessive attention to detail, White’s art offers a convincing landscape of the imagi-nation. “A collection of White’s vivid commercial works spanning a decade....the captivating paintings that transport the viewer from the outwardly familiar to the alien skies.” —Publishers Weekly.

Cover artist: A. Pedro

They call them the “rat-catchers.” They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship’s biologist, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. Dendra is a stable world, covered by a huge, unchanging forest—except that nothing living can really be free of change. The planet has no seasons, but its animal life still undergoes life-cycles involving birth, maturation, metamorphosis, and death. The Earth colony sent to tame the world has failed, at least in the terms expected of it, and seems beyond redemption; but the crew of the Daedalus still has to find out exactly why and how the program has gone wrong. Provided, of course, that they can survive the investigation itself!