Peter Watts Knihy

Canadian writer Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with the Hugo and Campbell Award finalist and Locus Award winning Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.

Manhattan má nové vládce. A Země rozhodně není jejich domovem… Vítej v New Yorku, synu. Vítej ve městě napadeném obludnými kříženci strojů a masa, ve městě bráněném soukromou armádou, vedle níž Zelené barety vypadají jako Armáda spásy, ve městě zpustošeném nákazou, požírající své oběti zaživa. Hodili tě do tohoto mlýnku na maso bez varování, bez přípravy a jakéhokoli vysvětlení. Celá tvá četa byla zlikvidována během okamžiku, kdy poprvé vkročila na bojiště. A chór hlasů šeptajících ve tvé hlavě říká, že vše nyní záleží jen na tobě. Jen ty sám můžeš vše zvrátit, kdybys jen věděl, co se vlastně stalo. Chceš pomoct. Opravdu chceš. Ale nejsou to jen vetřelci, kteří po tobě střílí. I tvůj vlastní druh tě loví jako zrádce – a tvá práce by byla mnohem jednodušší, kdybys neměl podezření, že to může být krutá pravda…

NYC 2023. Terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city's myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city's systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. The battle is on against the lethal, armoured, bipedal war machines that stalk ravaged New York.

"This--THIS--is the cutting edge of science fiction." --Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Sunday Ahzmundin is about to find out.

Exploring the intersection of technology and human conviction, these edgy tales delve into the complexities of science and the unknown. The narratives blend beauty and danger, offering a mix of dark, satirical, and introspective themes that challenge perceptions of reality and alienation.

Exploring the profound implications of first contact, this book delves into how such an event—whether on Earth, in space, or on another planet—would reshape our understanding of technology, philosophy, and humanity itself. It examines the potential cognitive dissonance society might face upon discovering a new form of sentience on Earth, challenging existing beliefs and prompting a reevaluation of our place in the universe.

The collection features over 50 unpredictable essays and revenge fantasies from a Hugo Award-winning author and former marine biologist, presenting a unique voice characterized as a savage dystopian optimist. This intriguing perspective challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths while remaining irresistibly engaging, even when it might be unwise to do so.

Different stages in the Norwegian playwright's literary and philosophical development are represented in three dramas.

After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution.

In this controversial book, Watt and Zepeda contend that the failing 'war on drugs' in Mexico, launched by president Felipe Caleron and funded by US military aid, is in fact a pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government, and a radically unfair status quo.