M. K. Stuyter Knihy

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

V piatom pokračovaní kultovej knižnej série sa opäť vraciame do piesočných dún. Leto Atreides je mŕtvy a jeho ríša upadá. Počas Rozptylu sa rozpŕchli do neznámych kútov galaxie miliónové davy. Z Arrakisu sa stal Rakis, planéta, ktorú zaplavila púšť – a ktorej hrozí vymretie obrovských piesočných červov.Do starých končín sa vracajú Stratení a hlásia sa o moc. A nie sú jediní. O nadvládu bojujú rôzne frakcie. Uprostred komplikovanej a neprehľadnej situácie sa objavuje Šíana, dievča, ktoré dokáže jazdiť na červoch ako kedysi Fremeni. Stelesňuje splnenie dávneho proroctva Božského imperátora.

Zavedené usporiadanie galaxie odchádza do dejín. Ctené matre, bezohľadné spoločenstvo, ktoré zničilo planétu Duna, je na vzostupe. Proti nim sa stále bránia zvyšky Bene Gesseritu a koordinujú odpor z dosiaľ neobjaveného sveta, planéty zvanej Kapitula. Plánujú nový Rozptyl, no tentoraz so sebou povezú aj jeden starostlivo opatrovaný poklad: piesočné červy, potomkov jediného gigantického červa, ktorého sa podarilo zachrániť z Duny. Zelený svet na planéte Kapitula sa čoskoro stane vyprahnutou pustatinou - a novou Dunou. V tejto poslednej knihe svojej série o Dune Herbert znovu vytvára vesmír plný neskutočne rozvinutých postáv a kontextov, v ktorých sa dajú najlepšie oceniť. Ako sa odvíja mnohovrstevný dej knihy, čitateľ objaví fascinujúcu bohatosť detailov a uhlov pohľadu. Vzrušujúci príbeh od prvej po poslednú stranu, legenda najslávnejšieho sci-fi eposu stále žije.

Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe. The promise of the Weapon Shops' slogan, The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free, is described thus: "Many of these weapons still carried the old names. “Guns” they were called, or “revolvers,” or “rifles,” but there the resemblance ended. These “guns” did not shoot bullets, they discharged energy in many forms and quantities. Some of them could kill or destroy at a thousand miles if necessary, and yet they were controlled by the same sensitive elements as the Weapon Shop door. Just as the door refused to open for police officers, Imperial soldiers or people unfriendly to the Shops, so these guns had been set to fire only in self-defense, and against certain animals during open season. They also had other special qualities, particularly as to defense and speed of operation."

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