Harper Voyager The Complete Stories. Volume I Азимов Айзек

Серия "Роботы" Айзека Азимова - от культового сборника "Я, робот" до четырех классических романов - содержит одни из самых влиятельных произведений в истории научной фантастики. Устанавливая и тестируя три закона робототехники, они продолжают формировать понимание и дизайн искусственного интеллекта по сей день • Сможет ли робот когда-нибудь проявить истинную креативность? Разумно ли доверять самоуправляемым автомобилям? Превратят ли роботизированные части тела людей в машины? Позволят ли органические технологии роботам стать людьми? • Сбоник рассказов объединяет истории из "Я, Робот" и "Остальные роботы" со многими другими, которые можно найти только в этом сборнике, включая один из шедевров Азимова, повесть "Двухсотлетний человек", удостоенную премий "Хьюго" и "Небьюла"

A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction • Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television, stage and screen and most notably for his masterpiece, ‘Fahrenheit 451’ • Bradbury has done a rare thing; to capture both the popular and literary imagination. Within these pages the reader will be transported to foreign and extraordinary worlds, become transfixed by visions of the past, present, and future and be left humbled and inspired by one of most absorbing and engaging writers of this century, and the last • This is the second of two volumes offering the very best of his short stories including 'The Garbage Collector', ‘The Machineries of Joy’ and ‘The Toynbee Convector’

When assassins target his rooms and news arrives that, many light-years away, his father has been murdered, student Biron Farrill flees for his life • Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father's death, and finds himself entangled in a web of deep-space rebellion, espionage, and political intrigue • Asimov’s Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century’s greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction’s Golden Age

The fate of the world hangs from the Moon • The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction • The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends • The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her • The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace

The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction • The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends • The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her • The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace

The author of the acclaimed mystery The Unquiet Dead delivers her first fantasy novel - the opening installment in a thrilling quartet - a tale of religion, oppression, and political intrigue that radiates with heroism, wonder, and hope • A dark power known as the Talisman has risen in the land. Born of ignorance and persecution, it is led by a man known only as the One-Eyed Preacher. A superstitious patriarchy, cruel and terrifying, the Talisman suppresses knowledge and subjugates women. And it is growing • But there are those who seek to stop the oppressive spread of the Talisman. A resistance formed of the Companions of Hira - a group of rebels versed in the power of ancient scripture, a magic known as the Claim - believe they have discovered the key to destroying the One-Eyed Preacher and his fervid followers: The Bloodprint

The Demons • Creatures lurk in the endless forests of the Wild, plucking victims from those who scratch a living by the sides of the great Godroads, paths of crystal which provide refuge from the infernal tide • The Deathless • Humanity's protectors reign within crystal castles held aloft on magical currents - seven timeless royal families, born and reborn into flawless bodies. As immortal as the precious stones from which they take their names, they fight to hold the Wild at bay. For generations a fragile balance has held • And The Damned… • House Sapphire, one of the ancient Deathless families, is riven by suspicion and grief. Their hunting expeditions against the Wild are failing and entire villages have begun to disappear • Then, when assassins strike, House Sapphire shatters

Серия "Роботы" Айзека Азимова - от культового сборника "Я, робот" до четырех классических романов - содержит одни из самых влиятельных произведений в истории научной фантастики. Создав и протестировав Три закона робототехники, они и по сей день формируют понимание и дизайн искусственного интеллекта • Как можно использовать роботов во время войны? Можно ли воспитывать робота как ребенка? Можем ли мы позволить им иметь собственных детей? Существует ли какая-нибудь человеческая профессия, которую никогда не сможет освоить робот? • В книге "Остальные роботы" робопсихолог доктор Сьюзан Кельвин и инженеры Пауэлл и Донован возвращаются, чтобы расследовать еще больше загадочных аномалий и катастрофических неисправностей • С характерным остроумием, прозорливостью и воображением рассказы Азимова раскрывают практические и этические проблемы, с которыми столкнется человечество в роботизированном будущем

A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence • The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists • A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear • An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him • A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for complete control • And the wheels of another plan - as old and intricate as the city itself - begin to turn…

Входящие в цикл Айзека Азимова о роботах легендарный сборник "Я, робот" и четыре его классических романа относятся к числу самых влиятельных произведений в истории научной фантастики. Именно в них на первый план выходит концепция Трёх Законов Робототехники, которая и по сей день во многом определяет наш подход к исследованию и разработке искусственного интеллекта • Планета Солярия - дом космонитов, живущих практически в полной изоляции со своими слугами-роботами и испытывающих омерзение от одной только мысли о контакте с другими людьми. Но одного из них находят забитым до смерти • Власти Внешних планет неспособны раскрыть это дело самостоятельно, так что они обращаются за помощью на Землю: к известному детективу Элайдже Бейли • Бейли и его напарник, робот Дэниел Оливо, отправляются на загадочную новую планету и изобличают заговор, который может изменить отношения между людьми и роботами навсегда

Book two of Ausma Zehanat Khan’s powerful, unforgettable new series, The Khorasan Archives • Sides must be chosen • Truths must be told • Freedoms will be fought for • To battle the cruel and controlling patriarchal force named the Talisman, members of a resistance group, the Companions of Hira, risked their lives to procure the Bloodprint – a sacred text that holds the power to overthrow this terrifying regime. Though they harnessed the magic known as the Claim, their plans now lie in ashes and their number scattered – with the two women at the centre of the plot – Arian and Sinnia – left facing the most harrowing tortures • Yet hope flickers in the darkness • The Bloodprint survived, secreted to Ashfall, seat of the Black Khan. But the Khan’s court is built upon shifting layers of intrigue and lethal conspiracy, with enemies whose motives are steeped in the shadows

On Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock • For generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the ice tribes’ fate. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been challenged • But nobody has ever escaped the Pit of the Missing before • Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has a mountain to climb and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south across a vast emptiness of ice. Before the journey can even start she has to find out what happened to the ones she loves and save those that can be saved • Abeth holds its secrets close, but the stars shine brighter for Yaz and she means to unlock the truth