Category: Science Fiction

By Becca Fitzpatrick

Dans l. a. ville brumeuse de Portland, Nora tente de mener une vie ordinaire depuis l. a. mort violente de son père quelques mois auparavant. Lors d'un cours de biologie, elle fait los angeles connaissance de Patch, qui vient d'arriver en ville. Il est séduisant, mystérieux, toutes les filles en sont folles, mais l. a. vie de Nora est déjà bien trop remplie.Comment Patch peut-il en savoir autant d'argent sur son compte ? Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il toujours sur sa course quand elle cherche à l'éviter ? Alors que les deux youngsters se rapprochent, Nora prend peur : un inconnu masqué attaque sa voiture, sa chambre est fouillée, mise à sac ; et quand elle appelle los angeles police, tout est miraculeusement rentré dans l'ordre. Sans le savoir, Nora est devenue l'objet de los angeles guerre qui agite les anges déchus et les Nephilim. Et en tombant amoureuse de Patch, elle va découvrir que l. a. ardour peut être fatale...

Extrait

Coldwater, Maine, États-Unis
De nos jours.

En entrant en cours de biologie, je faillis tomber à l. a. renverse.
Bras dessus bras dessous, Barbie et Ken étaient suspendus au tableau noir. Les deux poupées étaient entièrement dénudées, à l'exception d'un feuillage en plastique, positionné aux endroits stratégiques. Au-dessus, une légende à l. a. craie rose bien appuyée indiquait :

LA replica HUMAINE (LE SEXE)

- Et dire que les téléphones portables avec appareils photograph sont interdits ! s'exclama ma voisine, Vee. Un cliché de ça sur le webzine du bahut, et adieu les cours de bio... think : une heure de libre, à agency à quelque selected de bien plus productif... Des sessions de soutien individuel avec ces varieties canons de première ou de terminale, par exemple.
- Ça alors, Vee. Et moi qui pensais que ce sujet allait te passionner.
- On ne m'apprendra rien que je ne sache déjà, répliqua Vee avec un sourire entendu.
- Rappelle-moi : Vee, ça s'écrit avec un V... comme vierge ?
- Hé, pas si fortress !
Elle m'adressa un clin d'oeil et l. a. cloche retentit. Nous nous installâmes à notre desk habituelle. Le trainer McConaughy saisit le sifflet toujours pendu à son cou et émit un son strident.
- Assis, les gars !
L'entraîneur de l'équipe de basket-ball du lycée assurait aussi les cours de biologie des secondes. Ça n'était un mystery pour personne : il considérait l'enseignement comme une tâche annexe.
- Certains d'entre vous l'ignorent peut-être encore, mais le sexe ne se résume pas à quinze mins de galipettes sur los angeles banquette arrière d'une voiture. C'est une technological know-how. Et los angeles technology, c'est quoi ?
- Barbant, répondit une voix au fond de los angeles salle.
- los angeles seule matière où j'ai pas los angeles moyenne, brailla une autre.
Le trainer passa en revue le finest rang et s'arrêta sur moi. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Poche .

By Larry Niven

Ringworld: the main wonderful artifact in recognized house, an articficial global with 3 million instances Earth's floor zone. Who outfitted it? And the place are they? during this attractive sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead addicted to electric ecstasy), the elderly Kzin warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of mad Nessus, go back to Ringworld. Their objective is to avoid cataclysm. within the approach, they locate themselves studying Ringworld's significant secrets...

By Frederik Pohl

Wealth ...or loss of life. these have been the alternatives Gateway provided. people had came upon this synthetic spaceport, choked with operating interstellar ships left at the back of through the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their locations are preprogrammed. they're effortless to function, yet most unlikely to regulate. a few got here again with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots wealthy; others back with their continues to be slightly identifiable. It was once the final word online game of Russian roulette, yet during this resource-starved destiny there has been no scarcity of determined volunteers.

By James Luceno

Years have handed on account that Jacen Solo, seduced by means of the darkish aspect and reanointed because the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus, died by the hands of his dual sister, Jaina, Sword of the Jedi. For a grieving Han and Leia, the shadow in their son’s tragic downfall nonetheless looms huge. yet Jacen’s personal vivid and loving daughter, Allana, bargains a ray of wish for the long run as she flourishes in her grandparents’ care. And whilst the keen, inquisitive lady, in whom the strength grows ever greater, makes a curious discovery aboard her grandfather’s loved spacecraft–the much-overhauled yet ever-dependable Millennium Falcon–the Solo family members reveals itself at a brand new turning element, approximately to set out on an odyssey into doubtful territory, untold event, and unforeseen rewards.
To Han, who is familiar with each bolt, weld, and sensor of the Falcon as though they have been components of himself, the unusual gadget Allana indicates him is totally alien. yet its confounding presence–and Allana’s infectious wish to get to the bottom of its mystery–are very unlikely to brush off. the single resolution lies in backtracking into the prior on a fact-finding excursion to retrace the folks, locations, and occasions within the checkered historical past of the vessel that’s performed every thing from making the Kessel Run “in under twelve parsecs” to assisting topple an evil empire.

From the instant the Falcon broke unfastened from a Corellian meeting line like an untamed creature with a will of its personal, it appeared destined to search out hassle. It wasn’t lengthy prior to the feisty YT-1300 freighter went from shuttling shipment to smuggling contraband. yet it‘s a fateful rendezvous on Coruscant, on the explosive peak of the Republic/Separatist rebellion, that launches a galaxywide cat-and-mouse video game whose most up-to-date avid gamers are Han, Leia, Allana, and C-3PO. And they’re now not by myself: Crime lords, galactic pirates, rogue politicians, and fortune hunters alike loom at each flip of the quest–each along with his or her personal determined stake within the Millennium Falcon’s so much momentous project. over the years and around the stars, from the Rim worlds to unknown issues past, the race will lead all of them to a last standoff for a prize a few will hazard every thing to find–and pay any rate to own.

By Keith Roberts

Within the yr 1588, Queen Elizabeth of britain used to be assassinated. therefore, whilst the Spanish Armada attacked, England went down defeated, altering the background of Europe and the recent global as we all know it.

Now, within the 20th Century, the Church of Rome reigns best over an international of pastoral attractiveness, whereas know-how is held again to the extent of the steam locomotive and the primitive radio. but technology can't be suppressed without end, and its advocates have gotten extra bold as every year passes. A revolution is building—one that would rock the rules of an empire. An said vintage of exchange historical past fiction, Pavane will proceed to encourage writers and readers for generations . . .

By Michael Swanwick

A technology fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner!
In the far away destiny, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, major a yak which consists of the corpse of his good friend, Darger. The previous high-tech international has lengthy given that collapsed, and the bogus intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems.

Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered puppy with human intelligence who walks upright, are a couple of con males and the heroes of a chain of earlier Swanwick tales. They commute to what used to be used to be China and invent a rip-off to turn into wealthy and strong. Pretending to have constrained super-powers, they relief an formidable neighborhood warlord who desires of conquest and once more reuniting China below one ruler. And, opposed to all odds, it starts to paintings, however it turns out as though there are different forces at paintings behind the curtain. it is a sharp, slick, witty technological know-how fiction experience that's highly wonderful from the most effective SF writers alive.

By Tobias S. Buckell

In the past, so the tales say, the old-fathers got here to Nanagada via a worm's gap within the sky. trying to find a brand new global to name their very own, they introduced with them a wealthy mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far away planet known as Earth. powerful have been the old-fathers, with the facility to form the realm to their liking---but that was once many generations in the past, and what was recognized has lengthy been misplaced. Steamboats and gas-filled blimps now traverse the planet, the place humans as soon as regarded as much as see nice silver towns within the sky.

Like his global, John deBrun has forgotten greater than he recollects. Twenty-seven years in the past, he washed up onto the shore of Nanagada with out reminiscence of his prior. even though he has made a brand new existence for himself one of the peaceable islanders, his soul continues to be haunted by way of unanswered questions about his personal identity.

These mysteries tackle new urgency whilst the fearsome Azteca hurricane over the depraved excessive Mountains looking for clean blood and hearts to feed their merciless, inhuman gods. Nanagada's merely desire lies in a legendary artifact, the Ma Wi Jung, acknowledged to be hidden someplace within the frozen north. And in simple terms John deBrun is familiar with the device's secrets and techniques, whether he can't take into accout why or how!

Crystal Rain is the much-anticipated debut novel by means of one among technology fiction's most modern and such a lot promising skills.

By Alan Dean Foster

"The Ambergris Element" - the tale opens with a chess online game among Spock and M'mir, the alternate-shift communications officer - who's Caitian, and who's at present distracted from the sport by way of a number of stories. (The felinoid humans of Cait are regarding the Kzinti, analogous to the connection among the Vulcans and Romulans, yet a lot additional again - M'mir resides evidence that Caitian adult females can functionality within the outdoor world.) The thoughts let us research whatever of her history and the way she got here to be a member of the Enterprise's bridge crew.

The firm has entered a sector that's simply been frivolously explored. Argo, the area they're approximately to survey, has just one obvious peculiarity. Water worlds aren't strange, yet Argo had a considerable land floor until eventually really lately. The tectonic task of the planet replaced all that in a short time. a minimum of one inhabited Federation planet exhibits symptoms of reminiscent of Argo to an uncomfortable measure, so something Argo can train them may perhaps keep lives later on...

"The Pirates of Orion" - the entire tinkering with Kirk's and Spock's biochemistry in "The Ambergris Element" ended with either one of them coming down with choriocytosis. regrettably, whereas it is a nuisance for a human with iron-based blood, it's lethal inside days, if untreated, for a Vulcan's assorted biochemistry - and Spock's combined ancestry has given him copper-based blood. on the grounds that company is just too distant from any resource of strobolin, Starfleet arranges ship-to-ship transfers of the drug (can't manage to pay for to tie up greater than 1 send of the Enterprise's category at a time). Then Orion pirates hit the freighter Huron previous to its rendezvous with the Enterprise.

"Jihad" - This episode is a selected favorite of mine. The Vedala have many times declined invites to affix the Federation, or the other such empire, pleading a deep-seated want for privateness. They in the past deserted their old homeworlds to wander via area - yet their ships are wonderful, small planets of their personal correct, known as 'Vedalan asteroids'. whilst the Vedala asked the help of the firm, the Federation used to be satisfied to oblige - a scenario critical adequate to threaten the free-roaming Vedala can't be any greater for civilizations missing their mobility.

The Vedala try to keep away from a holy conflict via the Skorr that will flip identified area right into a massacre. As with the Vulcans, the avian Skorr have been as soon as a warrior humans, with the extra flourish that their competitive intuition complements their fertility, allowing to reproduce large armies according to public outrage. back as with Vulcan, one being - Alar - persuaded them to a course of peace. Now the 'soul of Alar' - an item sacred to the Skorr humans, bearing a recording of Alar's mind styles - has been stolen through individual or individuals unknown, and the Skorr are getting ready to make conflict opposed to all non-Skorr until eventually the soul is returned.

The Vedala have traced the soul to a hiding position on an uninhabited, geologically volatile planet, and despatched for Kirk and Spock to hitch a small staff of experts assembled to retrieve the soul. the opposite contributors are: M3 eco-friendly, a certified thief; Lara, a humanlike huntress with an infallible feel of path; Sord, an immensely robust saurian from a high-gravity global; and Tchar, heriditary prince of the Skorr. yet even in any such handpicked social gathering, there could have been room for a traitor...

By Deborah Install

What could you do if you happen to came upon a rickety robotic sitting below a tree on your again backyard?

For floundering 34-year-old Ben Chambers the answer's visible: discover the place it got here from and take it there to be fastened, no matter if it capacity risking his marriage within the technique. decided to accomplish anything for as soon as in his lifestyles, Ben embarks on a trip that takes him and the endearing robotic, Tang, to the a ways aspect of the globe...and again back. jointly they'll detect that comradeship can get up less than the strangest situations, and that synthetic Intelligence can educate a guy what it really is to be human.

Funny, touching, fascinating, clever and a piece magical, A robotic within the backyard is a gem of a primary novel, ideal for an individual who has ever came upon it tough to connect to the realm.

By David J. Schwartz

EISBN-13: 9781407013411

a celebration in a faculty flat in may well 2001. A case of dodgy home-brewed beer. A violent typhoon. subsequent day: the mummy of all hangovers. What could you do if you happen to the morning after the evening earlier than introduced a banging head, a raging thirst... Oh, and your personal superpower?

Meet the All-Stars: Harriet, Charlie, Caroline, Mary-Beth and Jack. Harriet could make herself invisible, Charlie can learn your brain, Caroline can fly, and Jack, good, Jack can run swifter than a rushing bullet.

decided to turn into costumed crime-fighters, yet baffled by means of the inability of super-villains to take on, the quintet quickly unearths that the ramifications in their new powers are extra complex than they expected, and that people (even themselves) are even more fragile than they'd realised.