Anche pubblicato come “L’infiltrazione”.

FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW…In the 21st century, Planet Earth was in the grip of an orientalized, paternalistic World State that gave all—and took all. Only in the land that was once the United States were the principles of freedom paid so much as lip service, and even there liberty flickered toward extinction. In such a world as this the Jeffersonians were a band of hopeless visionaries, political cranks, a quixotic underground dreaming of the reinstitution of the American Constitution.But then a star drive was developed and the Jeffersonians were sentenced to eternal exile. On a world twenty light years and a century from their homes they set out to create a society conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that the individual is more important than the state. They are the New Americans. This is their story.SPECIAL BONUS: The Hugo and Nebula Winning THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS, and HOME.* * *The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for voluntary exile to a distant planet. But two hundred years later the less benevolent descendant of the World State that had let them go was to decide that the cosmos was not big enough to hold both it and a free people…[Best viewed with CoolReader.]

Klasyka amerykańskiej postapokaliptycznej literatury, połączona z historical fiction i opowieścią o kontakcie z Obcymi.

Klasyka amerykańskiej postapokaliptycznej literatury, połączona z historical fiction i opowieścią o kontakcie z Obcymi.

Operațiunea Haos este un roman science fantasy, care are toate ingredientele adulate de Paranormal Romancieri și Urban Fantaziști (dragoste cu vârcolaci și vrăjitoare, îngeri, demoni, incubuși, cadru modern ș.a.), și mai are în plus o complexitate morală și stilistică pe care nu o poți detecta la prima vedere în subiectul aparent ușurel sau în scrierea relaxată. Dar dacă te uiți mai atent, o vezi.

Nagroda Hugo 1969.Nominacja do nagrody Nebula w 1969.

W wiosce Ansby, należącej do barona Rogera, trwa rekrutacja jego wasali mających wesprzeć króla Edwarda II w toczącej się Wojnie Stuletniej przeciw Francuzom. Nieoczekiwanie, w chmurze dymu i ognia, w samym środku tegoż obozowiska ląduje statek kosmiczny obcych. Wersgorowie widząc prymitywny gatunek ludzki, postanawiają podbić planetę…

„Pomocna dłoń” Poula Andersona to najmądrzejszy utwór w antologii. Wypływający z niego polityczno-kulturowy morał wydaje się oczywisty, ale jednocześnie zastanawiamy się, dlaczego sami nigdy o tym wcześniej w ten sposób nie pomyśleliśmy. Daleko mu do speculative-fiction — od razu do głowy przychodzi konkretny przykład ze współczesnego, jak najbardziej rzeczywistego świata.

The scope of life may be far wider than most humans think—but there’s at least one human trait that’s likely to persist through even the most extreme changes…

Co byś zrobił, gdybyś mógł siłą woli przenosić się w czasie? Gdyby Twój dar mógł wpłynąć na losy świata? Jack Havig jest mutantem obdarzonym taką zdolnością. Wie, że ludzkość zgotuje sobie apokalipsę i że po niej przyjdzie czas stabilizacji pod panowaniem mądrego ludu Maurai. Jednak nie tylko Jack potrafi wędrować przez wieki — są też inni obdarzeni tą zdolnością, a ich wizja przyszłości jest całkiem odmienna.Powieść była nominowana do Nagrody Hugo w roku 1973.

La época es el siglo XXI. Los personajes son cincuenta especialistas: hombres y mujeres elegidos tras un largo y cuidadoso proceso de selección destinado a incorporar sólo personal particularmente entrenado en el viaje espacial y excepcionalmente apto para desarrollar con éxito una nueva colonia. La nave es la Leonora Christine, la más reciente de su clase. Y todos los esfuerzos están puestos al servicio de una única misión: viajar a través del espacio interestelar hasta un lejano planeta donde debe establecerse una colonia terrestre.Sin embargo dos años después de su partida, la Leonora Christine colisiona con una nube de desechos del espacio, se avería y la ruta se altera. Todos se ven irremediablemente sin fin hacia lo desconocido.

Maestro della fantascienza spaziale, autore di celebri saghe come quella del mercante van Rijn e della Lega Palesotecnica, Anderson è festeggiato in questo volume con tre celebri avventure “indipendenti” che non appartengono a cicli ma ce lo mostrano in tre diverse sfaccettature della sua poliedrica carriera; Quoziente 1000 è una straordinaria avventura del pensiero che parte da un’ipotesi affascinante: che accadrebbe se all’improvviso il quoziente intellettuale di tutta l’umanità aumentasse di dieci o venti volte? Quali orizzonti si schiuderebbero alla nostra conoscenza e alla nostra immaginazione? Le amazzoni è la storia di un pianeta dove le donne sono molto, ma molto bellicose; Tau zero, infine, racconta con grande verosimiglianza un viaggio nello spazio a bordo di un’astronave relativistica e dell’incidente che trasforma quest’avventura in un incubo dove spazio, tempo e dimensione cessano di avere ogni significato a noi noto.

The novel centers on a ten-year interstellar voyage aboard the spaceship Leonora Christine, and it opens with members of the crew preparing for their departure from earth. It is an especially moving departure because they know that while they are aboard the ship and traveling close to the speed of light, time will be passing much more quickly back home. As a result, by the time they return everyone they know will have long since died. From practically the very first page, therefore, Tau Zero sets the scientific realities of space travel in dramatic tension with the no-less-real emotional and psychological states of the travelers. This is a dynamic Anderson explores with great success over the course of the novel as fifty crewmembers settle in for the long journey together. They are a highly-trained team of scientists and researchers, but they are also a community of individuals, each trying to make a life for him or herself in space. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971.

Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed–and still might yet…Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:• “The Lucky Strike”: When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale.• “Bring the Jubilee”: Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War… and all of American history.• “Through Road No Wither”: After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future.• “All the Myriad Ways”: Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.• “Mozart in Mirrorshades”: Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past–with disastrous results.…as well as works by Poul Anderson • Gregory Benford • Jack L. Chalker • Nicholas A. DiChario • Brad Linaweaver • William Sanders • Susan Shwartz • Allen Steele • and Harry Turtledove himself!The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder

Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include:-"Superiority": Arthur C. Clarke presents an intergalactic war in which one side's own advanced weaponry may actually lead to its ultimate defeat.-"Dragonrider": A tale of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, in which magic tips the scales of survival.-"Second Variety": Philip K. Dick, author of the short story that became the movie Blade Runner, reaches new heights of terror with his post apocalyptic vision of the future.-"The Night of the Vampyres": A chilling ultimatum of atomic proportions begins a countdown to disaster in George R. R. Martin's gripping drama.-"Hero": Joe Haldeman's short story that led to his classic of interstellar combat, The Forever War.-"Ender's Game": The short story that gave birth to Orson Scott Card's masterpiece of military science fiction.. . . as well as stories from Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Cordwainer Smith, Harry Turtledove and Walter John Williams.Guaranteed to spark the imagination and thrill the soul, these thirteen science fiction gems cast a stark light on our dreams and our darkest fears—truly among the finest tales of the 20th century.