Toto je príbeh o ľudstve, ktoré sa snaží prežiť, o ľudstve na hrane. Svet, ako ho poznáme, sa stal neobývateľným, ľudia žijú v obrovských podzemných silách a na zem sa môžu dívať len cez kamery a veľké obrazovky. Rozhovory o živote na povrchu sú zakázané, ale vždy sa nájdu ľudia, ktorí o ňom snívajú, túžia dostať sa von. Títo ľudia sú však pre silo nebezpeční, pretože svojím optimizmom dokážu nakaziť aj iných. Za trest dostanú presne to, čo chcú: Môžu vyjsť von.
BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history ... out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society. One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel. Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards ...
The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget. Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below. Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart.
Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.
Unintended Consequences Sometimes things dont work out exactly as planned. The
Mesan Alignment has a planone its been working on for centuries. A plan to
remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human raceitsway. Until
recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment
hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the
Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most
formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the
Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack which destroyed the Royal
Manticoran Navys
Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...
the two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when
Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found
the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't
exactly what he expected.
Poznáte budúcnosť, ktorú nám predpovedali ľudia žijúci v päťdesiatych rokoch 20. storočia? Ich predstavy sa naplnili! V tom roku 2016, v ktorom žije Tom Barren, ľudstvo prekvitá v technoutopickom raji s lietajúcimi autami, pohyblivými chodníkmi a mesačnými základňami, v ríši, kde sa avokáda nekazia a punk rock nikdy neexistoval... Jednoducho nebol potrebný.
Tom si však v tomto očarujúcom idealistickom svete nevie nájsť miesto, a to ešte predtým, ako sa mu život obráti hore nohami. Osudová nehoda ho položí na lopatky. Urobí unáhlené rozhodnutie, ktoré zásadne zmení nielen jeho život, ale aj samotnú štruktúru vesmíru. Pri cestovaní v čase nastane incident a Tom uviazne v našom roku 2016, vo svete, ktorý pokladáme za skutočný. Naša normálna realita mu pripadá ako dystopická pustatina.
Keď však Tom objaví absolútne neočakávané verzie rodinných príslušníkov, kariéry a možno – naozaj iba možno – aj svojej spriaznenej duše, musí sa rozhodnúť. Napraví plynutie času a vzkriesi svoj utopický vesmír, alebo sa pokúsi založiť si nový život v našej neporiadnej, nepredvídateľnej realite? Pri hľadaní odpovede prejde viacerými krajinami, kontinentmi a časovými osami. Pokúsi sa zistiť, kto naozaj je a ako má vyzerať jeho – a naša – budúcnosť.
"Dostane sa ľudstvo z podzemného sveta? Veľkolepé vyvrcholenie trilógie Silo"Juliette, nová starostka Sila 18, nedôveruje Silu 1, najmä jeho vodcovi Donaldovi. Vo svete podzemných Síl však neexistuje čierna a biela – všetko je v odtieňoch sivej. Donald možno nie je monštrum, za aké ho Juliette považuje, a v skutočnosti môže byť kľúčom k ďalšiemu prežitiu ľudstva. Dokážu však spolupracovať dosť dlho na to, aby uspeli?
Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet, is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from the Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso. She can understand why anyone would want to rebel against someone like Lombroso, but why tell her about it? After all, she has problems of her own, like the minor matter of a life-or-death war against the Solarian League
NIEKTORÉ TAJOMSTVÁ BY MALI OSTAŤ POCHOVANÉ Svet v roku 2049 je stále taký, ako ho poznáme dnes. Čas pokojne plynie ďalej, no kráti sa. Len hŕstka mocných vie, čo prinesie budúcnosť. Pripravujú sa na ňu. Snažia sa nás pred ňou ochrániť. Chystajú nás na cestu, z ktorej niet návratu. Na cestu, ktorá povedie do záhuby, na cestu, ktorá nás zavedie pod zem. História sila sa práve začína – a s ňou aj naša budúcnosť.
