Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction

"The Apex Book of World SF," edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe and around the world.

The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age.

Among the...

More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people s minds. "The Wall Street Journal"

The Philip K. Dick Reader

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of...

This is a true account of how, following a disaster in CERN on 5 April 2012, you and everyone else on Earth stopped living.
The disaster was caused by a particle called a "Cosmic Monopole," which had been wandering the Universe since the Big Bang. It was trapped by one of the CERN detectors and transformed into a black hole. This grew, absorbed two men and, moments later, time stopped everywhere in the universe except near fragments of mysterious blue crystal: Time Crystals.
Irish schoolgirl Catriona, who was visiting CERN, has to descend through the whole history of the...

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria.

Lise...

He follows the murder trail through Station 32 on Triton encountering the powerful Lovinski Cartel and Buck Wiley, a wacky local inspector. Yet, someone is still trying to kill him. Only on Olympus Mons on Mars does he find answers with the help of Angelique.

With the entire Intra Solar System...