wyszukanych pozycji: 24
Vivid Tomorrows: On Science Fiction and Hollywood
ISBN: 9781476683386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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184,17 zł |
Pošťák
ISBN: 9788027700288 / Czeski / 2021 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dvacet let po skončení zničující jaderné války panuje na Zemi nukleární zima a život v tomto postkatastrofickém světě je nejenom krutý, ale především krátký. Civilizace, která se sice stále může pyšnit některými vymoženostmi jako elektrický proud, se postupně hroutí. V tomto bezútěšném světě přežívá i Gordon Krantz, hlavní hrdina této knihy. Coby člen milice se snaží v Minnesotě ochránit zbytky měst, která však přesto padají za oběť řádění holnistických band, samozvané armádě bojovníků. Jednoho mrazivého dne je Gordon okraden...
Dvacet let po skončení zničující jaderné války panuje na Zemi nukleární zima a život v tomto postkatastrofickém světě je nejenom krutý, ...
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79,12 zł |
Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays
ISBN: 9781934840399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. rom bestselling author David Brin comes a collected work that takes the reader on a swooping, controversial ride through worlds of fiction, nonfiction and film. Through Stranger Eyes is a freedom-of-expression free-for-all, offering more than two dozen reviews and commentaries that are sure to enlighten and entertain, possibly infuriate, even make you laugh.
From carefully measured views on J.R.R. Tolkien to Brin's infamous, outraged rant about the Star Wars saga, to unusual appraisals of familiar and unfamiliar works, you are guaranteed to come away with perspectives you never imagined... rom bestselling author David Brin comes a collected work that takes the reader on a swooping, controversial ride through worlds of fiction, nonfiction...
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118,72 zł |
Foundation's Triumph
ISBN: 9780061056390 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished. The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the... Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secre... |
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38,14 zł |
Startide Rising
ISBN: 9781504064729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,56 zł |
River of Time
ISBN: 9781480234253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The River of Time brings together twelve of David Brin's finest stories, including "The Crystal Spheres," which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves? "The Crystal Spheres" offers a fantastic explanation for the Great Silence. Instead of being latecomers, might humanity have come upon the scene too early? "The Loom of Thessaly" merges...
The River of Time brings together twelve of David Brin's finest stories, including "The Crystal Spheres," which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fi...
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51,22 zł |
Existence
ISBN: 9780356501734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A turning point is upon us. A new flood is coming. Decades from now, an alien artefact is plucked from Earth's orbit by a galactic garbage trawler and it will shed light on the fate of humanity itself. We've always seen the end coming. But with so many different ways to be annihilated, how will we survive?
A turning point is upon us. A new flood is coming. Decades from now, an alien artefact is plucked from Earth's orbit by a galactic garbage trawler and...
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57,13 zł |
Earth
ISBN: 9780356501765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It's 50 years from tomorrow, and a black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists searches for a way to prevent the mishap from causing harm, only to discover another one already feeding relentlessly at the core.
It's 50 years from tomorrow, and a black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists searches for a way to prevent the mishap from cau...
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57,13 zł |
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom
ISBN: 9780738201443 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and "smart" toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, won't really...
In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that inform...
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154,71 zł |
Otherness
ISBN: 9781502540423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Hugo and Nebula winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos - and of their own existence. In The Giving Plague, a virus, transmitted by blood donation, begins to change humanity. In Dr. Pak's Preschool, a woman discovers that her baby has been called to work while still in the womb. In Natulife, a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of virtual reality. In Sshhh... the arrival of benevolent aliens on Earth leads to...
From Hugo and Nebula winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans an...
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57,91 zł |
The Postman
ISBN: 9780356501758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This classic novel of post-apocalypse America tells the story of a survivor who borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. Wearing the old, worn uniform he begins to weave a tale of a world on the way to recovery.
This classic novel of post-apocalypse America tells the story of a survivor who borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself fro...
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51,93 zł |
Válka pozvednutých
ISBN: 9788086390338 / Czeski / Miękka / 2012 / 729 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Zpráva o tajemném objevu pozemské lodi Streaker vyvolala krizi, která se šíří celou galaxií. Nad planetou Kithrup bojují desítky flotil mezi sebou o to, kdo se zmocní bezbranných pozemšťanů i jejich tajemství. O konečném výsledku tohoto boje se ale možná rozhoduje někde jinde...
Na opačném konci vesmíru se skupina lidí a šimpanzů připravuje k obraně Garthu - svého nového domova. Netuší, že útočícím Gůbůrům jde o něco víc než jen o ovládnutí planety... Většina lidí na Garthu je přinucena kapitulovat a hledat u okupantů protilátky... Zpráva o tajemném objevu pozemské lodi Streaker vyvolala krizi, která se šíří celou galaxií. Nad planetou Kithrup bojují desítky flotil mez...
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60,87 zł |
Alas, Babylon
ISBN: 9780060741877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness. "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are str... |
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76,31 zł |
Castaways of New Mojave
ISBN: 9781961511514 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,97 zł |
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
ISBN: 9780812970098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans--discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his...
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the...
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67,87 zł |
Project Solar Sail
ISBN: 9781515458197 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,48 zł |
Project Solar Sail
ISBN: 9781515458180 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,97 zł |
The Pattern Future: Finding the World's Great Secrets and Predicting the Future Using Pattern Discovery
ISBN: 9780996725453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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233,10 zł |