wyszukanych pozycji: 17
One Billion Years to the End of the World
ISBN: 9780241472477 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something? 'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times
'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of...
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46,20 zł |
Hard To Be A God
ISBN: 9781473208292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to observe rather than interfere - but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice ...?
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in...
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51,35 zł |
Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781880100387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit. A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and the head lives to tell the tale… An explorer experiences life on the moon, in a story written six decades before the first moon landing... Electrical appliances respond to human anxieties and threaten to crash the electrical grid… Archaeologists discover strange... For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers.... |
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96,90 zł |
The Waves Extinguish the Wind
ISBN: 9781641606264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,48 zł |
The Snail on the Slope
ISBN: 9780914091875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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125,41 zł |
Monday Starts on Saturday
ISBN: 9781613739235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, or NITWiT. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional Institute involve all sorts of magical beings and devices--a wish-granting fish, a talking cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a sofa that translates fairy tales into reality, a motorcycle that can zoom...
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacati...
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69,17 zł |
Roadside Picnic
ISBN: 9781399617208 / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,35 zł |
The Doomed City: Volume 25
ISBN: 9781613749937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete...
The magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time Arkady and Boris Strugats...
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95,13 zł |
Hard to Be a God: Volume 19
ISBN: 9781613748282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works. It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the...
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is consi...
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73,32 zł |
The Doomed City
ISBN: 9781473222281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIPICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to the USSR.
From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIPICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to ...
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56,48 zł |
Monday Starts on Saturday
ISBN: 9781473202214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, where research into magic is serious business. Where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind?
When young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Sci...
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51,35 zł |
Far Rainbow
ISBN: 9781410106681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "We all know what Rainbow is," began Lamondois. "Rainbow is a planet colonized by science and designed for physical experiments." "The Far Rainbow was written at one breath, it is full of dynamics and genuine dramatism." - Literary Gazette "Science-fiction stories by the Strugatsky brothers are philosophical pieces. They are full of action but each action is clearly imbued with speculation."- Neva Magazine "Take the Far Rainbow, for instance. 'Authentic' is the word, and this is rather unusual where science fiction is concerned." - The Young Guard Magazine The brothers Boris and Arkady...
"We all know what Rainbow is," began Lamondois. "Rainbow is a planet colonized by science and designed for physical experiments." "The Far Rainbow was...
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120,89 zł |
Roadside Picnic
ISBN: 9780575093133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Red's life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. It is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile territory.
Red's life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zo...
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51,35 zł |
The Snail on the Slope
ISBN: 9781473228283 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide cannot remember how he got to the Forest, and he is certain he belongs somewhere else. Determined to escape, he finds that all paths lead him round strange bends and into encounters with bizarre creatures. NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS This classic SF novel sees Boris and Arkady...
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest be...
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51,35 zł |
The Snail on the Slope
ISBN: 9781613737545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 zł |
The Beetle in the Anthill
ISBN: 9781641606783 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,48 zł |
The Inhabited Island
ISBN: 9781613735978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,48 zł |