The Big U
ISBN: 9780380816033 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious." but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer. The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious." but if you want to know Stephens... |
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66,49 zł |
Schismatrix Plus
ISBN: 9780441003709 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe. In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.
Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the ...
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91,48 zł |
Turing's Delirium
ISBN: 9780618872596 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The town of Rio Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution--a war waged electronically, where computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries. This is an edgy story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the local, the virtual and the real.
The town of Rio Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution--a war waged electronically, where computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the re...
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74,63 zł |
Psion
ISBN: 9780765303400 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat's story has been continued by Hugo-award winning and international best-selling author Joan D. Vinge with the very popular Catspaw and Dreamfall. Now, 25 years later, this special anniversary edition of Psion contains a new introduction by the author and "Psiren," a story never before included in any trade edition of Psion. This tough, gritty tale of an outsider whose... When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan tele... |
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78,96 zł |
Catspaw
ISBN: 9780765303417 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . . Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . . The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target. But which? And who would dare? Seeking answers, Cat finds lies and savagery, passion and atrocity--trails that lead from crystal valleys to clubs for silver-skinned beauties. From the homicidal... CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . . Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skil... |
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87,28 zł |
Dreamfall
ISBN: 9780765303424 / Angielski / Miękka / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic "cloud whales," dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to... Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans... |
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87,28 zł |
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
ISBN: 9780765303677 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial... Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO ... |
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74,80 zł |
When Gravity Fails
ISBN: 9780765313584 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he's available for a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse. The 200-year-old "godfather" of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of... In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Buda... |
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70,64 zł |
Bone Dance
ISBN: 9780765321732 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen--the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That's the prize I'm after. But it seems I'm having trouble controlling my own mind. The Horsemen are coming. Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world befo... |
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74,80 zł |
Postsingular
ISBN: 9780765318725 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US president initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in our world after a previously unimaginable transformation. All things look the same, and all people feel the same--but they are different (they're able to read each... It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US president initiate a radical t... |
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74,80 zł |
Hylozoic
ISBN: 9780765320759 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien races that... In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consc... |
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78,96 zł |
Chasing Filthy Lucre
ISBN: 9781466272491 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weber Rexall knows that in New Eden cash is king. That's why, whether it's throwing fights in a basement fight club or doing security work for a friend, he'll take whatever job he can. When one of those security jobs goes violently wrong and a corporate power threatens the status quo, Rexall finds a cause to believe in. It won't pay him anything, but it might change his life. "Chasing Filthy Lucre is a fast-paced, engaging look at an all too realistic possible future in which the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of the urban jungle. A little dystopian, a little cyberpunk, a little...
Weber Rexall knows that in New Eden cash is king. That's why, whether it's throwing fights in a basement fight club or doing security work for a frien...
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28,38 zł |
Halcyon
ISBN: 9780986649356 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What can you do when a computer virus starts infecting people? For years, a virus that targets cybernetics has plagued people with any sort of computerized implant in their bodies. It is untraceable, unpredictable, 100% fatal and infecting more people every day. Politics tore apart Project Requiem, a highly-funded military endeavor meant to create an antivirus to save humanity. A ragtag group of programmers and visionaries is trying to pick up where the lead engineer for Requiem left off, but their resources are limited, they're hounded by the army and corporate mercenaries and a key engineer...
What can you do when a computer virus starts infecting people? For years, a virus that targets cybernetics has plagued people with any sort of compute...
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56,71 zł |
Fractal Prince
ISBN: 9780765336798 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of "fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he's running out of time. In The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi's... "The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The... |
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74,80 zł |
Ecko Rising
ISBN: 9780857687623 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society. Driven half mad by the systems running his body, Ecko is a criminal for hire. No job is too dangerous or insane. When a mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of 'magic', he must confront his own percepions of reality and his place within it. A thrilling debut, Ecko Rising explores the massive range of the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and the possible...
In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society....
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42,20 zł |
La cabeza
ISBN: 9781467986250 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Atormentado por el remordimiento a raiz de un accidente que ha dejado a su esposa Gloria horriblemente desfigurada, Daniel enfrenta en todo momento la llamada de la carne y su deber como esposo... Entra Ezequiel, su desquiciado hermano, que ha disenado una maquina que resuelve el dilema mente-cuerpo con horrible sencillez. Un relato de ciencia ficcion de rara intensidad y enigmaticas connotaciones biblicas, y una novela erotica, todo en uno. A intervalos divertida, sexy, inquietante, sugerente y reveladora, este es Cabiya en la cima de sus habilidades narrativas.
Cabiya urde, mediante... Atormentado por el remordimiento a raiz de un accidente que ha dejado a su esposa Gloria horriblemente desfigurada, Daniel enfrenta en todo momento la...
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43,66 zł |
The Zero Class
ISBN: 9781492768890 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Synopsis: The energy war, the nuclear war, the food war.Earth had been ravaged by them for two centuries, leaving the soil unable to sustain a large population. A hero and leader emerged and took humanity to the stars. The second planet that mankind calls home is named Eden. Life on Eden didn't start out as it had on Earth, humanity brought technology with them, but Eden had a gift to bestow, magic.It was quickly adapted to everything, and time lead to humanity rebuilding back to its former glory, and beyond. It has been 1000 years on the new home, and that is where we find Vernon Douglas.He...
Synopsis: The energy war, the nuclear war, the food war.Earth had been ravaged by them for two centuries, leaving the soil unable to sustain a large p...
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52,34 zł |
Transmatic
ISBN: 9780615964263 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..".part-time hitman/ exterminator, Ignius Ellis's dream is to buy a candy-apple red Nova Supreme. In the process of trying to earn enough cash to make his dream come true he gets sucked into the rough world of Visitacion Valley, SF. When the tenants in his apartment complex reveal their various extracurricular activities this take an even more bizarre twist and Ellis soon becomes acquainted with the nightmarish Slave State dimension..."
..".part-time hitman/ exterminator, Ignius Ellis's dream is to buy a candy-apple red Nova Supreme. In the process of trying to earn enough cash to mak...
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34,88 zł |
Second Chance
ISBN: 9781495330445 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was a struggle but finally the ravages of climate change are in the past. Normality has returned and humanity is blossoming once more. But a return to normality also brings the return of old behaviour. Flushed with recent success and bored of being a figure-head, newly-elected delegate Stephanie Vaughn decides to take a more active role against government control. But in choosing to back a campaign to find a missing student, Stephanie unleashes a series of events that puts both herself, and anyone connected to her, in danger. Set in the near future where everybody is connected and death...
It was a struggle but finally the ravages of climate change are in the past. Normality has returned and humanity is blossoming once more. But a return...
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61,08 zł |
A Study in Steel
ISBN: 9781495452901 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing is as it seems in the city of Duplicity. In a far distant future, a surge of advancements in biotechnology brings "cyborg" beings into the world as we know it. Through bigotry and selfishness, the world quickly erupts into chaos, bringing a short but brutal war between the humans who deify their purity, and the cyborgs who seek to unify the world under their technology. One hundred years later, the war is long past. Humans are almost extinct, and the world is populated by genetically engineered beings called Drives; a blend of biotechnology and machinery that are each created for a...
Nothing is as it seems in the city of Duplicity. In a far distant future, a surge of advancements in biotechnology brings "cyborg" beings into the wor...
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34,88 zł |