Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Earth has become a Utopia, guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war, cruelty, poverty and racial inequality. When the 'Overlords' finally reveal themselves, their horrific form makes little impression. Then comes the sign that the Overlords have been waiting for. A child begins to dream strangely — and develops remarkable powers. Soon this…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose in 2131? Who is inside it? And why?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: With this epic tale of altered histories and different earths, a universe where Alexander's empire prompted a different past, a world where strange alien 'eyes' gaze upon a fractured reality, a time when man is looking to colonise the red planet Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter scale new heights of ambition and sheer story telling brio. This is classic SF adventure from two of the biggest…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: A Space Odyssey a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »2001: A Space Odyssey» – a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out – a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries — the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa ...' And with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and what appears to be an impossibly advanced piece of Russian technology. And then to a terrifying intervention by a helicopter from 2037. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in, Kipling, his friends and the helicopter crew stumble across Alexander the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 348) Аннотация: Selon la légende, les hommes auraient jadis conquis les étoiles. Jadis, d'immenses villes auraient fleuri à la surface de la Terre. Puis les Envahisseurs sont venus, laissant l'Humanité exsangue, confinée sur sa planète natale. Pendant des millénaires, la cité de Diaspar a servi de refuge aux rares rescapés. Une prison dorée, close sur…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, «A Fall of Moondust» is a tour-de-force of psychological…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Arthur C. Clarke has been the presiding genius of science fiction for almost fifty years. His works include the ground-breaking and profound Childhood's End, Rendezvous With Rama and Expedition To Earth. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends — and then the age of Mankind begins....
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in…