Thomas Wintner Knihy

Andrew Harlan, one of the operatives who help control human history, breaks the rules to help Noys Lambent, the woman he loves, escape a reality change

Pokračovanie nadčasovej série majstra sci-fi, ktorý zadefinoval tri zákony robotiky Nadčasová séria Isaaca Asimova o robotoch, od ikonickej poviedkovej zbierky Ja, Robot až po štyri, dnes už za klasiku považované romány, obsahuje najvplyvnejšie myšlienky moderného sci-fi. Asimov zadefinoval tri zákony robotiky, ktoré dodnes ovplyvňujú pohľad na prítomnosť i budúcnosť umelej inteligencie. Detektív Eliáš Baley sa pri riešení svojho najnovšieho prípadu dostáva so svojím robotickým partnerom R. Daneelom Olivawom na Auroru, najväčší z vesmíranských svetov. Hlavným podozrivým z vraždy robota, Daneelovho dvojníka, je nadaný robotik a politik, doktor Han Fastolfe. Ten mal prostriedky, motív aj príležitosť na spáchanie zločinu, no Baley a Daneel musia dokázať jeho nevinu. Baley sa totiž zo všetkých síl snaží presadiť obnovenie prerušenej kolonizácie Galaxie ľuďmi. A Fastolfe je jedným z mála Vesmíranov, ktorí podporujú myšlienku, aby sa novej kolonizácie mohla zúčastniť aj Zem. Uvedomuje si totiž, že vesmíranské svety stagnujú a len nová expanzia umožní ľudstvu ďalší rozvoj.

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human --English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities... And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignificance.

Two hundred years after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro still dreamed of revenge. Now, finally, he set into motion a plot that would totally destroy the planet Earth. But Amadiro had not counted on the power Baley still exerted long after his death. For Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, and the extraordinarily gifted robot Giskard—and they were the only ones who could save Earth. Fortunately for Amadiro, Daneel and Giskard were restrained by the Three Laws of Robotics. Or were they?

Mickey awaits imminent chaos when his brother-in-law uses the moon's facilities in his quest for Absolute Zero and his sister Rho tries to read the memories of 410 cryogenically frozen heads.

In een zonnige stad aan de kust van de Middellandse Zee arriveert, op een mooie zomerochtend, Ivan Zjilin. Hij vindt er een pension en bezoekt, net als iedere rechtgeaarde toerist, de gelegenheden waar de bevolking haar - overvloedige - vrije tijd doorbrengt. De mensen zijn in de greep van het amusement en hun zucht naar ontspanning en verrukking overschrijdt alle grenzen. Zo zijn er de dagelijkse orgieën met drank en drugs, en de psychedelische 'rillers' waarbij mannen en vrouwen zich massaal overgeven aan verbijsterende hallucinaties. Maar welke is de hoogste verrukking? Om dat te ontdekken neemt geheim agent Zjilin grote risico's, maar het grootste gevaar is; de verrukking zelf...

'The best debut, in my opinion, is COMPELLING EVIDENCE' John Grisham

The survivors are sent on a quest by the Benefactors to find and destroy the race that destroyed the Earth.

Here, from the other side of time, come: THISTLEDOWN, the asteroid starship of a future that is not quite our future; GAIA, a parallel reality where Alexander the Great's empire has ruled for two thousand years; and THE WAY, an infinite corridor through space-time which traverses and encompasses whole universes. And as the strands of these mysteries are unravelled, so the ordering and the end of mankind -- and our entire Universe -- come into question