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Finding a real congregation on Mars wasn’t going to be easy—in fact he had to admit it would be a miracle if it ever happened…

Pour Frank Nobilio, le conseiller scientifique du président des Etats-Unis, le premier contact entre l'humanité et une race extraterrestre est assurément un succès : les Tosoks, malgré leur aspect déroutant, sont amicaux et tout disposés à faire bénéficier les hommes de leur avance technique. Quant à ces derniers, ils ont réussi à passer outre un bien légitime désarroi face aux caractéristiques morphologiques de leurs visiteurs pour réserver à ceux-ci le meilleur accueil possible. Mais une nuit, un des savants de l'entourage des aliens est assassiné dans des conditions atroces, et tous les indices semblent accuser Hask, l'un des Tosoks. Bientôt arrêté, emprisonné et traduit en jugement, Hask risque d'être exécuté à moins que Frank et Dale, son avocat, ne parviennent à établir son innocence. Leur tâche s'annonce d'autant plus difficile que leur client se montre peu coopératif, laissant entendre que l'enjeu de ce procès dépasse de loin le cadre étroit de la justice humaine... Un roman époustouflant - et souvent drôle - qui fait cohabiter très intelligemment la thématique classique du " premier contact " et le thriller juridique haletant à la John Grisham !

Voici la suite dqui racontait l’émergence d’une Intelligence Artificielle sur le réseau Internet. Caitlin, jeune aveugle de naissance, a recouvré la vision grâce à une prothèse informatique et joue un rôle essentiel dans cette émergence puis dans l’éducation de cette conscience non humaine, .

L’accès progressif de la totalité des ressources d’Internet lui confère des pouvoirs surhumains, presque divins. Qui ne manquent pas d’inquiéter le gouvernement américain. Peut-on laisser survivre une entité qui dispose de connaissances et de pouvoirs formidables alors qu’on ignore tout de ses intentions ?

Caitlin, qui lui fait une confiance absolue, parviendra-t-elle à la sauver ?

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Ces romans témoignent aussi d’un sens de l’humain rare dans la science-fiction et propre à Robert J. Sawyer.

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Un uomo che ha buone probabilità di morire per una malattia ereditaria del sistema nervoso. Uno scienziato premio Nobel che è forse un ex-torturatore nazista. Una società di assicurazioni interessata ai clienti con difetti genetici. Ce n’è quanto basta per capovolgere il mondo normale di Pierre Tardivel e il suo lavoro al Progetto Genoma Umano. E il figlio che Pierre sta per avere sarà il primo, concreto annuncio dell’incubo biologico... Ritorna Robert J. Sawyer, l’acclamato autore di Starplex, con un romanzo di straordinaria suspense.

Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.

Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible—change human nature—before the entire world descends into darkness. 

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Webmind

Ou bien l'apparition de cette entité aux pouvoirs quasi divins est-elle une chance extraordinaire pour l'humanité, comme le pense Caitlin Dexter, la jeune ex-aveugle dont la prothèse a tout permis ?

Quel rôle jouera le grand singe Chobo, l'autre intelligence non humaine de la planète, dans l'effort de Webmind pour convaincre les humains de ses bonnes intentions ?

La réponse se trouve-t-elle en Chine ?

La porta tra gli universi è stata chiusa e rischia di non riaprirsi più. Ponter Boddit, lo scienziato Neanderthal, è tornato nella propria dimensione lasciando un solo rimpianto nella nostra: la genetista Mary Vaughan. Per questo convince il consiglio a tentare un pericoloso esperimento: invitare Mary in visita ufficiale sulla Terra parallela in cui sono i Neanderthal, non l’Homo sapiens, la razza dominante. Mary accetta e si avventura fra le sorprese di un mondo capovolto, in cui tra uomini e donne non può esistere il minimo contatto. Ma è solo l’inizio dell’odissea in un altro spazio, un altro tempo.

Aby sprawdzić swe teorie odnoszące się do nieśmiertelności i życia pozagrobowego, stworzył trzy komputerowe symulacje własnej osobowości.

Z pierwszej kopii usunięto wszelkie wspomnienia powiązane z fizyczną egzystencją — to symulacja życia po śmierci.

Drugą kopię pozbawiono wiedzy o starzeniu się i śmierci — to symulacja nieśmiertelności.

Trzeciej osobowości nie poddano modyfikacjom — to kopia kontrolna.

Trzy wirtualne osobowości Hobsona uciekają z laboratoryjnego komputera do obejmującej cały świat elektronicznej pajęczyny. Jedna z nich jest mordercą.

Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such “revelatory and thought-provoking”* novels as and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short story “Biding Time,” and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper…

Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

Trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of —lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what he’ll dig up…

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Aboard a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close—there’s no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman’s ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret—a secret that could cost him his life.

Sawyer’s four most recent novels were nominated for the Hugo Award. He has won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, as well as the major Canadian awards for best science fiction and best mystery fiction. Here is the novel that began his career.

On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes U.S. President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, Canadian researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience—but the memories that flash through Jerrison’s mind are not his memories. It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh’s equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another’s minds. And now one of those people has access to the president’s memories—including classified information regarding an upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining who has switched memories with whom is a daunting one, particularly when some of the people involved have reasons to lie…

Ascoltare messaggi che vengono dalle stelle è un compito che i radioastronomi eseguono da anni nella speranza che possano arrivarci rivelazioni in grado di cambiare la nostra visione dell’universo. Ed è probabile che un giorno queste comunicazioni arrivino davvero, e che oltre a cambiare tutto ciò che sapevamo di là fuori mettano in discussione ciò che noi stessi siamo (o credevamo di essere). Quando questo avverrà, è probabile che non ci sia più posto per le illusioni dell’homo sapiens. E comincerà la lotta per consentire, o stroncare sul nascere, l’evoluzione di una nuova specie di uomini.

Vieną dieną svetimeivių erdvėlaivis nusileido Toronto mieste greta Paleontologijos muziejaus. Iš kosminio aparato išlindęs šešiakojis, dvirankis padaras, vardu Holusas, pareiškė norą pasikalbėti su žymiausiu paleontologu. Iš pokalbio paaiškėja, kad ir Žemė, ir Holuso planeta, ir dar vienas protingų būtybių pasaulis per kelis milijardus metų patyrė penkias grandiozines katastrofas TUO PAČIU METU.

Vadinasi, kažas itin galingas (gal net visagalis) akivaizdžiai reguliuoja evoliuciją mūsų Galaktikoje. Holusas mano, kad galima pamėginti jį surasti...

Webmind—the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web—has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated.

Caitlin Decter—the once-blind sixteen-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind—wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything—Webmind included-may come crashing down.

Mary Vaughan e Ponter Boddit, due scienziati che vogliono avere un figlio. C’è un ostacolo, però: lei appartiene alla specie Homo sapiens ed è nata nel nostro universo, lui è un Neanderthal evoluto e rappresenta la specie dominante di un mondo parallleo. La tecnologia per susperare il gap biologico esiste: è nelle mani di uno scienziato Neanderthal che vive nelle solitudini del suo mondo. Il problema, tuttavia, non è come raggiungerlo, ma come superare la violenza e il razzismo di una pianeta pieno d’odio. Il nostro.

Come si sono estinti i dinosauri? Domanda vecchia, per il lettore di fantascienza. E che ha avuto mille risposte. Nel caso di questo brillante romanzo, tuttavia, l’interrogativo è molto più complesso e andrebbe riformulato così: provata scientificamente l’esistenza di Dio, E soprattutto, perchè ha deciso di estinguere periodicamente le forme di vita superiori su tutti i mondi abitati? E’ l’assillo che tormenta Hollus, un ragno intelligente venuto dallo spazio che un bel giorno entra nel Royal Museum, a Toronto, e chiede di parlare con uno scienziato. Lo portano da Thomas Jericho, paleontologo, e l’aracnide rivela importanti informazioni sulle origini della vita. Non solo, ma propone alle menti migliori della Terra di unirsi in una ricerca che altri pianeti hanno già cominciato per loro conto, e che solo lo sforzo di tutte le intelligenze potrà coronare di successo. La domanda è infatti: che intenzioni ha il Creatore?

El doctor Hobson ha creado un monstruo. O mejor dicho, tres. Para probar sus teorías sobre la inmortalidad y la posible existencia de vida tras la muerte, Hobson ha ideado tres simulaciones informáticas de su propia personalidad. Con la primera, de la que se ha eliminado toda referencia a la existencia física, intenta analizar como sería una posible vida tras la muerte. Con la segunda, de la que se elimina toda referencia al envejecimiento y a la muerte, Hobson pretende estudiar la inmortalidad. La tercera, sin alteraciones, es el control de referencia del experimento. Sin embargo, las tres simulaciones escapan del ordenador de Hobson, huyen a la red informática mundial y viven su propia vida. Una de ellas es un asesino y comete crímenes que tal vez Hobson ha imaginado…

Finalista del Premio HUGO 1996.

La doctora Sarah Halifax logró descifrar y contestar el primer mensaje enviado por extraterrestres. Al cabo de treinta y ocho años, cuando ella es ya casi nonagenaria, llega la respuesta. Sólo Sarah es capaz de descifrarla, si vive el tiempo suficiente… Sarah y su esposo Don son sometidos a un costoso tratamiento de rejuvenecimiento (vuelta atrás). Don recupera la fortaleza física de sus veinticinco años, pero Sarah…

Sawyer ofrece de nuevo una interesantísima exploración ética y moral, esta vez a escala humana y también cósmica, sobre la vida y el papel de la tecnología en el desarrollo futuro del ser humano.

En el año 2007 se detecta una señal procedente del espacio profundo. Misteriosos e ininteligibles flujos de datos son recibidos durante diez años. Entonces la señal se detiene.

Heather Davis, profesora de la Universidad de Toronto, ha dedicado toda su carrera a descifrar el mensaje. Mientras, su vida personal ha sucumbido: una hija suicida, un matrimonio destrozado. Pero es ella quien finalmente descifra el mensaje. Descubre una sorprendente tecnología nueva que puede abrirse paso a través de las barreras del espacio y el tiempo, con la promesa de una nueva etapa en la evolución humana. Parecen cercanos una capacidad de exploración ilimitada... o el final de la raza humana.

Factor de humanidad

El canadiense Robert J. Sawyer ganador del Premio Nebula y nominado al Premio Hugo por , habiendo sido finalista los cuatro últimos años, es uno de los autores más aclamados y respetados del momento en Estados Unidos.

When aliens land in Toronto, they present astounding evidence that their planet and Earth have experienced the same cataclysmic events — evidence that they claim proves the existence of God.

In Hominids, Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry-making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land.

In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail-a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history.

Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.

But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith--something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens' brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world . . . .

Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.