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Omega: The Almighty
ISBN: 9781453891940 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One winter evening, before a television audience of millions, a scientist, famous for his chilling computer simulations of the future, makes a speech that will alter the course of history. Then, on the island of Malta, work soon begins on building a gargantuan computer. The OMEGA project brings together some of the worlds most brilliant scientific minds. Eugene Grant, a Noble Prize Winner and Jesuit priest, Marie Singh, former head of Artificial Intelligence at I.B.M, and the petulant Chief Technician Dave Tolley each have their own reasons for doubting the morality and wisdom of what they...
One winter evening, before a television audience of millions, a scientist, famous for his chilling computer simulations of the future, makes a speech ...
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G: What if the gravitational constant, isn't?
ISBN: 9780972205931 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ultimate source of clean, renewable energy isn't solar. wind or geothermal and it already produces 20% of all the electricity used on earth. It is gravity. Falling water powers every hydroelectric plant. It doesn't consume or convert matter. It doesn't generate any harmful by-products No fuel, no moving parts, completely silent. Yet it keeps the universe in balance. Simple But what happens when two men unlock the means to control gravity. Virtually limitless, cheap, clean power... The gravity of their stuation increases exponentially. Ultimately- "G" is a story about power.
The ultimate source of clean, renewable energy isn't solar. wind or geothermal and it already produces 20% of all the electricity used on earth. It is...
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The Four Fingers of Death
ISBN: 9780316118934 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve...
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illn...
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Ebocloud
ISBN: 9780983166603 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To what length will we go to avoid loneliness? Facebook may once have been the one-word answer to that question, but for the hundreds of millions flocking to engage in ebocloud.com, "friending" seems frivolous by comparison. In the "great belonging" of the cloud, few stop to consider what sacrifices are being made as they work together with their "ebo cousins" to build a more loving society, under the leadership of ebocloud's idealistic architect, Radu Cajal. For New York artist Ellison Luber, however, the losses are not abstract-they are immediate and personal. While nearly oblivious to the...
To what length will we go to avoid loneliness? Facebook may once have been the one-word answer to that question, but for the hundreds of millions floc...
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State of Mind
ISBN: 9780966614923 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your thoughts are not your own . . . . . . In the not-too-distant future, freedom is just a word that you willingly trade for a dozen donuts, based on the dubious promise that you can eat what you want and never gain weight. You can also take drugs with no ill effects or call a friend while surfing the web without a phone or computer. All this and more will be yours following the simple installation of a P-Chip in your brain. After botching the arrest of the governor's son in Los Angeles, Commander Jake Travissi is banned from law enforcement. The workaholic homicide cop spirals into...
Your thoughts are not your own . . . . . . In the not-too-distant future, freedom is just a word that you willingly trade for a dozen donuts, based on...
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Centauri Sameness
ISBN: 9781456490737 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I was working through my forty one radiation treatments for failing a biopsy. Two lovely female types in hospital scrubs started chatting with me and mentioned they werte not from this surface, Earth of course. They were lovely so I listened. After several weeks of discussions at a local Peking buffet I was invited to go up, you don't fly in star travel, and see the Duchess. The Duchess was the star ship, no crew, just the Dutchess. However as Runus, the surface where the two lovelies were from, was well beyond Earth in technology and Earth was advanced in medical capabilities an...
I was working through my forty one radiation treatments for failing a biopsy. Two lovely female types in hospital scrubs started chatting with me and ...
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The Seagu11 Project: a black hole science adventure to the center of our galaxy
ISBN: 9781456349868 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations' Consortium for Aeronautic and Space Exploration (UNCASE) has just selected Michael S. Gibraltar as one of the elite crew for its 11th in a series of secret governmental (Seagu11) projects. A recent discovery in the frigid landscape of the Antarctic has altered the mission's target to a black hole at the very center of our Milky Way galaxy. At three million times the mass of our Sun, the hole is a behemoth of celestial proportions. Before embarking, however, Mike must complete space training and hone up on his sparse knowledge of the physics of black holes and the vagaries...
The United Nations' Consortium for Aeronautic and Space Exploration (UNCASE) has just selected Michael S. Gibraltar as one of the elite crew for its 1...
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The Qualia Engine
ISBN: 9781617200595 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist, 2010 A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in SF, 2010 *** "The Qualia Engine" is a worthy addition to the long line of superman-in-hiding stories that stretches all the way back to Olaf Stapledon, with notable stops along the way... A dense story with a rich nougat vein of well-observed human emotion. --Gardner Dozois, Locus *** Sharply told, very funny at times, and ultimately very powerful. --Rich Horton, Locus *** From the infinite universes of quantum theory to the... Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist, 2010 A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in SF, 2010 *** "The Qualia Engin... |
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Extinct: A Movie/TV Script
ISBN: 9781456558406 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Julia wins a science project with a computer graphics presentation of the problems of predicting when Easter occurred down through the past centuries. GF and Brown Dog arrive in Sandy Utah and provide the idea for another computer graphics presentation that describes the shift of the Earth's mantle and the resulting floods. Of course it happens. Sandy moves north to where southern Alaska was with massive Pacific flooding. It's the stone age with satellites, sort of. GF and Brown Dog with Julia settle into the local Library with solar panels, and food from abandoned houses. Survivors follow...
Julia wins a science project with a computer graphics presentation of the problems of predicting when Easter occurred down through the past centuries....
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The Detour
ISBN: 9781453592496 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Detour
ISBN: 9781453592502 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Warren of Time
ISBN: 9781449579586 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darren Stroud finds love in the strangest of places, and then loses it. In his quest to locate her again, he travels to the ends of the universe, and beyond. Thrown together with a water nymph, a Russian Czar, and intelligent lemurs among others, Darren and friends journey to parallel universes, with no map to follow. Not knowing where, or when, their next stop will take them, Darren has to decide when enough is enough. Keep trying for his home, or settle for something...else. Finally, in the ravaged remains of an Earth seemingly without a living soul, the voyagers try to set things right in...
Darren Stroud finds love in the strangest of places, and then loses it. In his quest to locate her again, he travels to the ends of the universe, and ...
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The Gartu Chronicles
ISBN: 9781448686957 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever had to move? Then you know what a hassle it can be. So, how do you move an entire civilization on a planet? And why would you need to? And where would you go? This story chronicles that issue with an alien species who end up in our solar system. Read to find out why, how, and what happens, to them and to us.
Have you ever had to move? Then you know what a hassle it can be. So, how do you move an entire civilization on a planet? And why would you need to? A...
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(C)The L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. Project: (c)L.A.Z.E.R.U.S.-The Man Made Super Hero
ISBN: 9781440404160 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. the L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. project You are being introduced to the Coming of "(c)L.A.Z.E.R.U.S." http: //www.thelazerusproject.com/ "the L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. project" A Highly Classified top Sceret Humanistic Being Development project. L.A.Z.E.R.U.S.: the MAN Made Scientific SUPER HERO L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. stands for: Liquefying Accelerating Zenoplasmic Electron Restructuring Uranious System The Humanistic Creature is a Being Created because of the Combined Modern Scientific Technologies of Cloning, Nano Technology, Genetic Code Technology, Space Research Technology, Global warming Research, and Medical Bionics...
the L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. project You are being introduced to the Coming of "(c)L.A.Z.E.R.U.S." http: //www.thelazerusproject.com/ "the L.A.Z.E.R.U.S. projec...
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Fleet of Worlds: 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
ISBN: 9780765329486 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fleet of Worlds" marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he created for his bestselling Ringworld series. Teaming up with fellow SF writer Edward M. Lerner, "Fleet of Worlds" takes a closer look at the Human-Puppeteer (Citizens) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew... "Fleet of Worlds" marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he created for his best... |
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Junana
ISBN: 9780970487179 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Junana tracks the arc of a new society in an alternative present time, using concepts and technologies that are mostly available today. Junana displays the future of education that many top scholars in the field are beginning to discuss. The eventual convergence of Internet gaming and education will put powerful learning tools into the hands of teens. In Junana we follow several of these teens as their world explodes through their Game experiences. In Junana the future is now, and we are all gamers. Junana is the beginning of a series of books that lead the reader into this new present. The...
Junana tracks the arc of a new society in an alternative present time, using concepts and technologies that are mostly available today. Junana display...
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Gettysburg Revisited: A Novel of Time Travel
ISBN: 9781450278324 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 2000s in a top secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history. As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins testing the new time technology using the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as an experimental bed, they focus on placing a defensive temporal...
In the early 2000s in a top secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the U...
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Gettysburg Revisited: A Novel of Time Travel
ISBN: 9781450278331 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 2000s in a top secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history. As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins testing the new time technology using the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as an experimental bed, they focus on placing a defensive temporal...
In the early 2000s in a top secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the U...
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Desiageo
ISBN: 9781419680618 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desiageo is a high tech sci fi drama tying together many events in recent history in a way whose storyline also illustrates how humankind can reach abundance rather than the "only" two options of jealousy vs. austerity that have been endlessly marketed upon us.
Desiageo is a high tech sci fi drama tying together many events in recent history in a way whose storyline also illustrates how humankind can reach ab...
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Zone 2
ISBN: 9781450297417 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where am I? "Brad asked himself. He became aware that he was not in the parking garage. He could hear a medley of voices that made no sense to him. He closed his eyes, said nothing, and lay dormant. The intermingling of voices seemed to last forever until he sensed he was lifted and placed on a sagging mattress. He could barely make out the words that seemed to be directed toward him. "We're all glad to see you alive, Mr. Cole. It was a close call. It may well be several weeks before you fully recover. We think you'll make it." Brad realized he was hospitalized. He croaked, "Am I still in...
Where am I? "Brad asked himself. He became aware that he was not in the parking garage. He could hear a medley of voices that made no sense to him. He...
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