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CV
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CV

Серия: CV #1
Язык: английский
Год: 1986
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Sea Venture, CV for short, is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built by man. It is not a ship but a huge sea habitat housing a scientific research station, an entire city of two thousand permanent residents and a thousand passengers. For...
A Reasonable World
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A Reasonable World

Серия: CV #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1991
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Sequel to CV and The Observers. After invading Sea Venture, Earth's largest ocean habitat, the Symbionts have infected the bodies of both humans and animals. Now, people become smarter—or they die. Violence is punished by instant execution from...
A For Anything
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A For Anything

Язык: английский
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What would happen if someone invented a machine that could create an exact duplicate of anything? That is the simple but remarkable premise of Damon Knight's classic 1959 novel, A for Anything. "The Gismo," as the machine is known, seems like it...
Natural State
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Natural State

Язык: английский
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Published in the January 1954 issue, this novella was Knight’s longest contribution to the magazine. Dealing with a familiar extrapolation--a future population divided between a mutually antagonistic farm society of exiles and a technologically...
The Man in the Tree
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The Man in the Tree

Язык: английский
Год: 1984
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With The Man in the Tree, Locus Award-winning author Sage Walker has given us a thrilling hard science fiction mystery that explores the intersection of law, justice, and human nature. Humanity’s last hope of survival lies in space…but will...
The World and Thorinn
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The World and Thorinn

Язык: английский
Год: 1981
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Young Thorinn is cast into a well as a sacrifice to appease an angry god by his simple-minded stepfather. But Thorinn doesn't perish there. Digging his way out into a cavern beneath the well, Thorinn explores the underworld in his almost...
Why Do Birds
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Why Do Birds

Язык: английский
Год: 1992
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It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie...