Temná vize počítačových kovbojů, biologicky zdokonalených vojáků štěstí a hi-techových jedinců vyřazených z normálního života získala Williamu Gibsonovi nebývalou chválu. Obsahem této sbírky jsou jeho nejlepší povídky a příběhy z oblasti fikce. Jsou kritické, nemilosrdné, vášnivé. Mají Gibsonův nezaměnitelný punc.
The setting is an Earth where the monetary standard is "plasm," an energy which can be transmitted by wireless. It can help one to be more clever, it can heal, it can move objects. The novel deals with an attempt to acquire lots of this energy to stage a revolution.
Sprawl, kniha 3. Vstupte do Gibsonova jedinečného světa – lyrického i mechanického, erotického i plného násilí, střízlivého i vzrušivého – v němž mnohonárodní společnosti a desperáti vybavení nejmodernější technologií soupeří v boji o moc a cestují do počítači generovaného vesmíru zvaného kybersvět. Do tohoto světa přichází Mona, mladá dívka s temnou minulostí a nejistou budoucností, jejíž život se ocitá ve střetu se světově slavnou hvězdou senzonetu Angie Mitchellovou. Od dětství se Angie uměla dostat do kybersvěta bez počítače. Z nitra kybersvěta řídí únos přízračná entita, která vytváří plány pro Monu, Angie a veškeré lidstvo, plány, které nelze nijak kontrolovat a ani poznat. A za zápletkou probleskuje stínová Yakuza, mocné japonské podsvětí, jehož vládci nelítostně manipulují lidmi a událostmi tak, aby vyhovovaly jejich záměrům… anebo si to alespoň myslí.
The second book in the breathtaking epic fantasy of heritage, vengeance, and destinyA decade has passed since the barbarian Loethar brutally conquered the last remaining, most powerful realm in the Denova Set--though the coveted Valisar Enchantment, the irresistible ability to coerce and control, eludes him still. Ten years since the warlord butchered the Set's royals and feasted on their blood.But he did not kill them all.Having secretly escaped Loethar's wrath, the young Valisar prince Leonel has grown to manhood under the protection of the notorious highwayman Kilt Faris. Now the boy king wants more than his rightful throne of Penraven--he wants revenge. But not all of enslaved Penraven wishes for Leonel's rule; indeed, Loethar has spent the past ten years uniting the Set's realms into a peaceful, prosperous empire. And unbeknownst to all, the true inheritor of the Valisar Enchantment is awakening--and a dark threat, far more sinister than even the invasion of the barbarian horde a decade earlier, is poised to threaten the Crown and reveal the most shocking Valisar secret of all.
One day Mankind disappeared... A few human beings were left on the deserted earth along with countless robots. The human beings - including a small tribe of American Indians - made do. The Indians returned to ancient tribal ways, the others stubbornly tried to rebuild technology. The robots - some stayed with the humans performing their service functions, some went off to create a religiously-based society of their own. Millennia later, a star-traveler returns from the center of the universe. The people of earth had been found and were planning to return. But something else had been found, too - the central intelligence of the universe!
The first book in The Soldier Son Trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies.
When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren’t prepared for was the smoke ring–an immense gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.
The Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers and learn for the first time of a society known as the Admiralty, which may have maintained intact the original computer library of the ship Discipline
With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable. Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy -- Beauty. On her sixteenth birthday Beauty is seemingly able to sidestep her aunt's curse. Instead she is transported to the future. Here begin her adventures as she travels magically back and forth in time to visit places both imaginary and real. Finally she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along. For in Beauty, there is beauty. And in beauty, magic. Without our enchanted places, humanity is no more than an upstart ape. And this, we realize, is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastical world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live
To escape the doom that threatens the rulers of Penraven, the inexperienced, untried Crown Prince Leonel is secretly sent away from his home, accompanied by only a single warrior, in order to protect him and the Valisar dynasty from the ruthless warlord Loethar and his barbarian invaders.
