Adrian Tchaikovsky Knihy

Komu patrí nová Zem?Našu planétu sme premenili na nočnú moru. Tí, ktorí prežili, odlietajú zo Zeme v zúfalom úsilí nájsť si nový domov. Po stopách predkov sa dostanú až k najväčšiemu pokladu minulosti – teraformovanému svetu, pripravenému prijať ľudský život. Vysnívaný raj je však iný, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdá.Blížiaci sa stret dvoch civilizácií otestuje hranice ich vlastného prežitia. Na miestach, kde je osud ľudstva zamotaný v tenkých vláknach času, hľadá vedecký tím odpoveď na otázku: Kto sú skutoční dedičia novej Zeme?

Idris Telemmier, hrdina a vyvrhel, mediátor, který dokázal zastavit Architekta. Nalezl způsob, jak ukončit válku s Architekty jednou pro vždy. Dožije se toho lidstvo? Nesmiřitelní, neznámí, nepřátelští mimozemšťané z jiné dimenze jsou zpět a rozsévají hrůzu. Idris odhalil tajemství, které by mohlo zvrátit osud, největší slabinu Architektů. Jeho objev je nejsilnější zbraní, jakou lidé disponují. Avšak galaktické velmoci sledují své vlastní zájmy a záměry, než aby se v jednom šiku postavili společnému nepříteli. Lidské i nelidské frakce bojují o kontrolu nad Idrisovým objevem, zatímco galaxie se zmítá ve vzájemně ničivé a sebedestruktivní válce. Další velkou překážkou v útoku proti hrozbě z vesmíru je sám Idris. Je si vědom, že Architekti jsou navzdory své obrovské moci pouhým nástrojem vyšší inteligence. Skutečná hrozba, jejich vládci, bloudí hluboko v neprostoru, kde čas běží jinak a realita není taková, jaká se zdá. Vládci nestvůrnosti si právě začínají uvědomovat drzou existenci lidstva a podnikají kroky k tomu, aby tuto ohavnou mrzutost navždy sprovodili ze světa

Válka skončila. Její hrdinové jsou zapomenuti. Až do jednoho náhodného objevu... Po zničení Země lidstvo vytvořilo bojovou elitu, aby zachránilo svůj druh. Zdokonalené lidské bytosti s implantovanými vylepšeními. Jedním z nich je Idris. Idris nezestárl, ani neusnul od chvíle, kdy ho ve válce přetvořili. V tichu vesmíru dokázali komunikovat s nepřítelem. Pak jejich mimozemští agresoři, Architekti, jednoduše zmizeli – a Idris a jeho druh se stali zastaralými. Jeden z hrdinů lidstva se nyní protlouká na nezávislé záchranné lodi, aby se vyhnul pozornosti větších mocností. Nyní, o padesát let později, Idris a jeho posádka objevili něco podivného, co je opuštěné ve vesmíru. Je to zjevně dílo Architektů – ale vracejí se? A pokud ano, proč? Idris a jeho posádka, pronásledováni gangstery, kulty a vládami, se řítí napříč galaxií a hledají odpovědi. Nyní totiž vlastní něco, co má nevyčíslitelnou hodnotu, a pro co by mnozí zabíjeli.

'This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio' Financial Times .

&b;>A thrilling far-future space adventure from this Arthur C. Clarke award- winning author. If you loved &i;>Children of Time&/i>, this will be the perfect next read.&/b>

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. They dreamed of a new home. They woke to a nightmare. On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But, generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears that it's being observed - that they're not alone. They'd be right, as explorers from the stars have arrived in secret to help this lost outpost. Confident of their superior technology, and overseen by the all-knowing construct of Doctor Avrana Kern, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth. Yet the planet hides deeper mysteries. It seems the visitors aren't the only watchers. And when the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape. Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time

Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire's imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. 

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth. Stefan Advani - rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor - bears witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year’s end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.