Ian McDonald je autor, ktorý vo svojich dielach často skúma témy ako je premena a možnosti ľudstva. Jeho štýl je charakteristický bohatým jazykom a dôrazom na detail, často zasadzuje svoje príbehy do futuristických alebo alternatívnych svetov. McDonaldove texty sú známe svojou hĺbkou a schopnosťou podnietiť čitateľov k zamysleniu sa nad budúcnosťou. Jeho dielo je cenené pre svoju originalitu a intelektuálnu podnetnosť.
Pozoruhodná publikace týkající se legendární anglické beatové skupiny The Beatles. Oproti ostatním knihám vztahujícím se k této tématice nám „Revoluce v hlavě“ – a především její autor MacDonald (nar. 1948, známý muzikolog a autor knihy The New Shostakovich z r. 1990) poskytuje poněkud atypický pohled prostřednictvím písní a jejich jednotlivých historií. Každá ze skladeb se nám tak zjevuje jako svébytná bytost s vlastním zrodem, životem a osudem v kontextu doby ve které vznikla.
August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods. RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.
Nechte se okouzlit jedním z největších a nejzvláštnějších národů světa. Minulost, současnost i budoucnost Brazílie s veškerou její barvitostí, vášní a proměnlivostí splývají ve fascinujícím díle, které je zčásti science fiction a zčásti historií.
São Paulo, 2032
Jen krůček od slumů São Paula blízké budoucnosti, ve městě pohádkového bohatství a chudoby, si Edson vlastními silami buduje firmu na hledání talentů. Náhodné setkání ho vtáhne do nebezpečného prostředí ilegálních kvantových výpočtů, jenže kam se dá uprchnout ve světě, v němž je neustále sledován každý pohyb i tvář?
Rio de Janeiro, 2006
Ambiciózní rijská televizní produkční Marcelina hledá ten pravý hit, reality show, na níž by si vybudovala pověst. Když ji nejnovější inspirace zavede na stopu zavrženého brankáře ze Světového poháru, nechtě se zaplete do pradávné konspirace, která ji ohrožuje nejen na životě, ale i na duši.
Amazonie, 1732
Jezuita otec Luis je vyslán do kvasu Brazílie osmnáctého století s úkolem najít a potrestat odpadlého kněze, jenž sešel z cesty pravé víry a vybudoval v brazilském vnitrozemí obrovskou říši. To, co otec Luis v doprovodu francouzského zeměpisce objeví v zapadlých končinách Amazonky, je krajní zkouškou pro jeho víru i chápání samé podstaty reality.
Tři postavy, tři příběhy, tři Brazílie, vše spojeno napříč časem, prostorem a realitou v nesmírně ambiciózním románu, jenž zpochybní váš způsob uvažování doslova o všem.
This book is one of many that fall part of a series. Designed to assist reluctant readers and dyslexia sufferers, this book follows the British Dyslexia Association guidelines (printed on cream paper, double line spacing, large font, left justified and plenty of pictograms). Alien Teeth is the crazy new sequel to the extremely popular Eyeball Soup. When you accidentally sit on a set of teeth, they can be hard to remove from your bottom...especially when they belong to an alien who left them behind on a flying visit to Earth. The precious molars belong to Emperor Zarg and he wants them back! With fabulous illustrations, Alien Teeth is packed full of schoolboy humour and the narrative hurtles relentlessly from one outrageous disaster to another. This excellent Reluctant/Dyslexic Reader has special appeal to boys and was also selected by the SLA Boys into Books Project (5-11).
'Dark, twisty and excellent . . . Grimdark with heart' Mark Lawrence For Ryhalt Galharrow, working for Crowfoot as a Blackwing captain is about as bad as it gets - especially when his orders are garbled, or incoherent, or impossible to carry out. The Deep Kings are hurling fire from the sky, a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady had begun to manifest in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power while the city burns around them. Galharrow may not be able to do much about the cult - or about strange orders from the Nameless - but when Crowfoot's arcane vault is breached and an object of terrible power is stolen, he's propelled into a race against time to recover it. Only to do that, he needs answers, and finding them means travelling into nightmare: to the very heart of the Misery. RAVENCRY is the second book in the Raven's Mark series, continuing the story that began with the award winning epic fantasy BLACKWING.
World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didn't die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. War between their kingdoms is inevitable, total and terrible. The Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, the Fabreen and Dityu empires. The airship is attacked, but then defended by the forces of the Fabreen, who offers theEverness crew protection. But what is the true motive behind Empress Aswiu's aid? What is her price? The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse.
Tracing the development of the Beatles song-by-song, this book places the group in the wider cultural context of the '60s. It considers all the elements which combined to create each song as it was captured on vinyl, from the stimuli of contemporary pop hits to the influence of psychedelic drugs.
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly
created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal
influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. This book goes back to the heart of
The Beatles - their records.
