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Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Isaac Asimov's classic collection of stories about a society where humans and robots live and work together on earth and in outer-space, is both disturbing and prophetic.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Isaac Asimov's classic collection of stories about a society where humans and robots live and work together on earth and in outer-space, is both disturbing and prophetic.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient — and sometimes more human than human beings. Isaac…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own — a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth — that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age from the grandmaster of science fiction. Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers. He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov alsopossessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. Hisaccessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science tohumor to history earned him the nickname the Great Explainer. I.Asimov is his personal story — vivid, open, and honest — as only Asimovhimself could tell it. Here is the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, a three-part masterwork that was later expanded to a seven-part series. It won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series — a special award created to recognize this central work of science fiction. The book describes a far future in which humanity numbers in the quadrillions, spread across millions of worlds, governed by the vast…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned — by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn to killing... in defiance of the Three Laws of Robotics. Pax Robotica Long ago, Gladia's robots Daneel and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partner¬ship between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A stunning testament to his creative genius. «Forward The Foundation» is a the saga's dramatic climax — the story Asimov fans have been waiting for.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A wide-ranging exploration of our universe — from «what makes the wind blow?» to «how was the moon formed?» — in questions-and-answer format, written in vintage Asimov style.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years! Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire — still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all — and that its still — defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation — a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future — to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire — both scientists and scholars — and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah…