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

Five years ago the eldest Furey son, Hugh, ran off into the night and never returned. His parents, estranged by grief, are trying to put the tragedy behind them after a long, exhausting, and fruitless search. His mother, recovering from an emotional breakdown, has lost herself in a new career; Hugh's father, having abandoned his faith and his position as a theology professor, now cares halfheartedly for their two remaining children. Left more or less to fend for themselves, ten-year-old Owen and fifteen-year-old Lena struggle to hold on to their brother's memory--an increasingly...

Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek's Robots are an android product--they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of...

Before Brave New World...
Before 1984...There was...

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In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent...

The threat of extinction seemed all but gone after Gideon struck the final blow that sent Zadock tumbling back down into the bowels of Hell. Still, Zadocks defeat only fueled Gideon's lust for power. He blamed himself for the deaths of friends and loved ones, and, he all but vanished for two years, as peace slowly settled over the lands. It was during this time that Gideon found many reason to continue what Zadock had initially begun. His self-blame soon turned to hatred that he in turn intends to unleash upon mankind. His only son, Lars must now confront his...