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A Deepness in the Sky

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A Fire Upon the Deep

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Across Realtime

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Al final del arco iris

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Robert Gu es un famoso poeta afectado de Alzheimer durante años y al que la medicina del futuro cercano logra recuperar y rejuvenecer. Así, debe enfrentarse a un mundo parecido pero insidiosamente distinto del que recordaba.
Au tréfonds du ciel

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Dans la Galaxie, l’étoile MarcheArrêt représente une énigme : elle observe un cycle de deux cent cinquante ans, s’éteint pendant deux cent quinze puis se rallume pour trente-cinq ans. Son unique planète est habitée par des araignées intelligentes qui viennent d’inventer la radio.Le système de MarcheArrêt n’a jamais été exploré. Et voilà que deux expéditions, attirées par les signaux radio, s’y installent. L’une a été montée par les Qeng Ho, un peuple marchand qui parcourt l’espace en achetant et vendant des informations technologiques. L’autre par une civilisation violente et sadique, dite des Émergents, qui a fait de la lutte pour le pouvoir son mode de vie. Son chef, Tomas Nau, cherche à se rendre maître de la planète des Araignées pour exploiter ses ressources. Il lui faut d’abord détruire la flotte Qeng Ho ou s’en emparer.Mais parmi les Qeng Ho se cache une figure mythique, Pham Nuwen, né mille ans plus tôt, qui connaît tous les tours...Au tréfonds du ciel a reçu, en l’an 2000, le prix Hugo, tout comme le roman précédent de cet auteur, Un feu sur l’abîme, publié dans la même collection, l’avait obtenu en 1993. Vernor Vinge décrit avec sa verve habituelle trois civilisations entièrement différentes sur fond galactique.
Bomb Scare

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Dangerous Games

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An anthology of storiesExtreme sports. Extreme future. Extreme collection.Science fiction's most expert dreamers envision the computerized, high-risk games of the future in this winning collection. Features Robert Sheckley, Cory Doctorow, Kate Wilhelm, Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Jonathan Letham, Gwyneth Jones, William Browning Spencer, Allen Steele, Terry Dowling, and Jason Stoddard.
Fast Times at Fairmont High

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Les traquenards de Giri

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Aux yeux des habitants de Giri, les explorateurs venus d’outre-espace n’étaient que des plaisantins.Et sur cette planète qui semblait si primitive, ils n’étaient rien d’autres.En fait, les péripéties de l’évolution avaient doté les autochtones d’un talent bien particulier, un talent qui rendait inutiles la plupart des inventions associées, sur d’autres planètes, au développement de la vie intelligente. Comme les explorateurs d’outre-espace, le lecteur va de surprise en surprise jusqu’à la chute finale.Un roman passionnant qui mêle avec intelligence aventure et réflexion, dû à un auteur de talent injustement méconnu en France.
Naufragio su Giri

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Come il pianeta Tschai della celebre quadrilogia di Jack Vance, anche Giri non scherza: creato fin nei minimi dettagli dalla fantasia di Vernor Vinge, è un mondo pittoresco e avventuroso popolato da una miriade di razze e tribù bellicose, alle quali non è per niente facile inculcare il concetto di Pax Galattica. Ma questo sarebbe niente se almeno su Giri ci fosse una remota possibilità di sopravvivenza…Invece: sostanze velenose e piante poco raccomandabili, complotti di corte e intrighi tribali, violenze e pericoli, guerre e sacrifici. I due terrestri sbarcati su questo mondo pazzesco per una spedizione scientifica, e costretti a restarvi loro malgrado, si accorgeranno che c’è poco da stare allegri soprattutto quando, per tentare l’unica via di fuga, dovranno partecipare a un piano sanguinoso e assecondare la volontà di un principe folle.
Rainbows End

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RAINBOWS ENDTo the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives — Wikipedia,

Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the future

Tatja Grimm's World

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As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the Stone Age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not be quenched among them; she had to explore and learn more about the strange world on which she lived.She finds the bastion of all culture, arts, entertainment, and history for the entire planet, the seven-hundred-year-old science fiction magazine Fantasie, which is produced entirely aboard a gargantuan floating vessel the size of a small city. But despite the printing presses, sail-powered vessels, and mind-expanding technology, Tatja is still displeased. Rising through the ranks, she finds that the people on the enormous barge are just as unintelligent as the primitives that raised her. But others have come to the planet who not only challenge her intelligence, but offer her a tantalizing opportunity to uncover answers to mysteries that have long plagued her.But with opportunity comes risk. And if she acts unwisely, she could bring doom to the only world she knows.Part I appeared in a slightly different form as The Barbarian Princess, copyright © 1986 by Vernor Vinge, in Analog, September 1986.Part II appeared in a different form as Grimm’s Story, copyright © 1968 by Vernor Vinge, in Damon Knight’s anthology Orbit 4, published by Putnam and Berkley, 1968.Parts II and III appeared in a different form as Grimm's World, copyright © 1969 by Vernor Vinge, published by Berkley Books, 1969.
The Children of the Sky

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The Cookie Monster

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The Witling

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By the standards of the planet Giri the travellers from outer space were “witlings”. For a peculiarity of evolution on Giri had given to all its living things a special talent—one which made unnecessary most of the inventions of intelligent beings elsewhere. Roads, aircraft, engines, doors. These were the products of witlings, not of “normal” people.