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The greater the potential rewards, the greater the risks—but some risks are just too big. Unless you really need a huge reward…

The relationships between generations can change dramatically as time goes on—especially when the generations are very different and time extends to the far future and beyond…

Messages from a far distant sun are received on Earth, causing chaos, as they are in English! A ship is sent twelve years to find the answers and find a secret so deadly it threatened all organic life everywhere.

2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe—a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal…

2034: A reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. The ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life… to annihilate it.

Fix-up Novel based on “Icarus Descending” (1973), “In the Ocean of Night” (1972), “Threads of Time” (1974), and “A Snark in the Night” (1977).

Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It’s 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It’s 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story’s perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.

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Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science.

Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.

In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven () and Gregory Benford (), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it’s on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.

A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated — one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape — the mystery of the Bowl’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth…

But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with the slow advance of science. There was talk of closing down the lab. The Earthside pols wanted publicity, adventure and profits—and not necessarily in that order.

So Matt had a bright idea. He figured he’d steal a spacesuit. Grab a spare shuttlecraft. And discover life on Jupiter…

Pasak legendų, neatmenamais laikais žmonijos lopšį Žemę užpuolė mechai, sielą turintys mechaniniai robotai, ir išžudė beveik visus žmones. Tik saujelei laimingųjų pavyko pasprukti link Galaktikos Centro. Atrodo, kad žmonijos tėra likę tik 278 asmenys, kuriuos Čiuožyklos planetoje negailestingai medžioja klastūnai, marodieriai, ietininkai ir kitos mechų padermės…

Ogni 76 anni ritorna uno dei più affascinanti e misteriosi visitatori che l’umanità ricordi: la Cometa di Halley. Il suo passaggio più recente è ancora fresco nella memoria, ma questo straordinario romanzo ci parla del prossimo appuntamento, e della spedizione di un gruppo di scienziati su Halley, non solo per scoprirne i misteri, ma per trasformarla in un luogo adatto alla vita. Tra meraviglie tecnologiche e sforzi sovrumani di adattamento, i segreti sepolti nel cuore della cometa (tutt’altro che priva di forme di vita) trasformano un immane progetto di colonizzazione in una spietata lotta per la sopravvivenza. Tuttavia, le minacce non vengono solo da un ambiente irriducibile, ma anche dagli stessi membri della spedizione, un complesso microcosmo che riproduce tensioni, conflitti e pregiudizi che hanno portato la Terra sull’orlo della catastrofe; ma soprattutto c’è il drammatico confronto tra due “forme” umane, quella naturale degli Orthos, e quella manipolata geneticamente dei Perceli. Uno sfondo da cui emergono tre grandi protagonisti, dai quali dipende il futuro della missione: Carl Osborn, Saul Lintz e, soprattutto, Virginia Kaninamanu Herbert, impegnata ad esplorare le frontiere fra l’intelligenza umana e quella artificiale. E il lungo viaggio della cometa nelle profondità dello spazio procede fra eventi memorabili e tremende avversità, in un alternarsi di trionfi e delusioni. Esperienze però che ogni volta lasciano appena intuire le incredibili prospettive che ancora attendono la colonia di Halley. Un grandioso affresco, che ha pochi eguali per ricchezza d’idee ed efficacia narrativa, dove si ritrovano tutti i più grandi temi della fantascienza.