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

The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.

"Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around."--Locus

It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.

Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources...

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is...

In his acclaimed novels Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, and the Blade Runner books, K.W. Jeter masterfully re-created the grim and gritty world of Ridley Scott's classic science fiction film masterpiece. Now Jeter returns with a startling and stylish new vision of the future as only he could imagine it, a dark and disturbing universe that can be described with one word...
Welcome to the Pacific Rim, the new center of the civilized world. As the rest of the planet sinks toward economic and social disaster, the cities on the coast have become a neon-lit, high-tech paradise....

A brilliant novel of alternate universes by an award-winning science fiction master
A breakthrough in quantum physics has shattered the boundaries between alternate worlds. History is in chaos as billions of possible futures collide. As a conquering army mounts an invasion of neighboring realities, a handful of men and women from a dozen different timelines risk their lives to safeguard an infinity of worlds.
Blending thrilling suspense with brilliant scientific speculation, Frederik Pohl s The Coming of the Quantum Cats is a triumph of the imagination by a Hugo and...

Carly Jackson is a synesthete. She hears colors, sees flavors. Her brain's misperceptions are so complex that without her medication she eventually cannot distinguish between the real and the imagined. Yet it is not just a curse. When fully synesthetic she has skills that make her one of the most successful cyber-criminals ever.

Three years ago, an experimental biological warfare agent was stolen from a top-secret laboratory on large moon in a star system at the edge of the galaxy. The secluded city surrounding the weapons facility was destroyed, and the perpetrators escape

When a brilliant young scientist at the U.S. Biological Warfare Laboratories in Maryland discovers a new anthrax-like strain of bacteria, he recognizes unique features that can change the world. Dr. Chris Gregory perfects the organism (BT-2000) to selectively destroy tobacco plants. He and seven other scientists (code name: Poker Players) devise an illegal covert operation. After smuggling BT-2000 into key countries they use top-secret devices stolen from Ft. Detrick to dispense the bacteria worldwide. Tobacco is soon eradicated from the earth.

Lighthouses have guarded the coastlines for centuries. A new kind of guard is needed when the Lighthouses become vehicles for transformation.

The rockets of space travel explore beyond the horizon-boundaries of earth. Combining the two in a grand metaphor creates the platform for a launch into another kind of space.

Join Eddie Chaos and a crazed bunch of island identities as they are merged in a technological tapestry of cryptic intent. Love and hope, desire and despair are mixed in the Program to achieve Light Liftoff before the Dark can take hold of the distressed island planet.

"A world lapsing into imbecility...true horror!"
--"New York Times"

YOU ARE DR. JAMES HEALEY AND LAST WEEK YOU WERE A GENIUS

That was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen...

Since then you have felt your mind decaying a little more each day. You have watched your wife slip into imbecility. You have seen the crowds growing murderous with animal terror, the President of the United States babbling and drooling on TV...

Only one thing separates you from them. You, at least, know what is happening as you search for the cure for the horror you...

The time is the 23rd Century. The threat of computer viruses, each more advanced than the last, looms ever higher. But one in particular, an intelligent computer virus born of A.I. research, doesn't just attack computers, but infects people, turning them into Cybers, zombie-like killers. It's the mission of ex-Navy SEAL Daniel Darkeye to protect the populace from this spreading menace. For him and his sexy partner-in-arms Raven Blackheart, it's a chance for vegeance on the living plague that destroyed everything and everyone they cared for. Herewith are the secretly obtained logs detailing...

"UniTazia" is a gripping chronicle of dedicated pilgrims' perilous journey to establish the first human settlement outside the solar system.

Young Stanford physics professor Krishna Karpati, with the help of android brothers Jes and Mo, succeeds in constructing a supernova fusion reactor/rocket suitable for interstellar travel. They receive the Nobel Prize. Starship MayFlower is built on Deimos and departs with a crew of 50 towards Alpha Centauri via the Pluto/Charon system, where 20 stay.

They send iceteroids towards Mars to help with its terraforming. On Mars, where thriving domed...

Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, "Portal" is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted mission prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed; animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. Every human being, however, has disappeared.

With the help of a slowly reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the last century. He learns of the child prodigy Peter Devore, of a world orchestrated by stunning new technologies, and of Peter's race against time to...

The Gentle Empire and the insectoid hive mind are metaphors for the division and factionalism found in modern society and culture. From 1740 through 2144, the Gentle Empire drops its repetitive payloads of new technological wonders and corresponding propaganda values.Television takes center stage for a time and then it's replaced with robots and holographic projections. Finally, virtual reality makes actual reality obsolete! The competing alien empires will have to make the ultimate sacrifice and succeed against the odds even though both sides are so equally matched. Who will win? It truly...