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Justina Robson

    11 giugno 1968

    Justina è un'autrice il cui desiderio di scrivere è stato un compagno di tutta la vita. Sebbene altre attività siano talvolta intervenute, e continuino a farlo, la scrittura rimane un elemento essenziale della sua esistenza. Il suo lavoro approfondisce profonde esperienze umane.

    Justina Robson
    Living Next Door to the God of Love
    Silver Screen
    Going Under
    Quantum Gravity - 2: Selling Out
    Mappa Mundi
    Chasing the Dragon
    • Chasing the Dragon

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Lila Black, half-robot and all attitude. The acclaimed series of SF/fantasy adventures from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author Justina Robson hits new heights.

      Chasing the Dragon
      4,1
    • Mappa Mundi

      • 640pagine
      • 23 ore di lettura

      In the near future , when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national security -- throwing Jude and Natalie together as partners in trouble. Deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, and how technologies can develop whose power and potential demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence - whatever the price.

      Mappa Mundi
      3,8
    • Quantum Gravity - 2: Selling Out

      • 360pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Book two of the Quantum Gravity series sees Lila Black drawn into the intoxicatingly dangerous demon realm. Capricious, in love with beauty, demons are best left to themselves. This is not easy when they can't resist tampering with humans. Justina Robson's new series is a joyful melding of science fiction and fantasy brought together in the figure of the dangerously lovely Lila Black, a 21-year-old secret agent who's had much of her body replaced with weapon-and-armor-heavy intelligent metal and who isn't sure where her mind ends and her installed AI begins. Lila's world is one where demons, elves, and elementals live alongside people. And somehow Lila and the other agents of the security agency have to provide security for all and stay alive themselves.

      Quantum Gravity - 2: Selling Out
      3,7
    • Going Under

      • 296pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Lila Black, half robot and all attitude, is back from Hell.

      Going Under
      3,7
    • Silver Screen

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

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      Silver Screen
      3,6
    • Living Next Door to the God of Love

      • 464pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Where do you run when a world is out to get you?AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye—here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today. . . .Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend. And she finds Eros itself—incarnated in the androgynously irresistible form of Jalaeka.But not everyone is in love with the god of love. Unity, for one, wants to assimilate Jalaeka along with every other soul in the universe. And contrary to what everyone always believes, love alone can’t save the day. It will take something both more and less powerful than the human heart to save the worlds upon worlds at risk when gods collide.“For Robson, world-building is a literary device like any other, useful for exposing buried fears and desires to the light of day, no matter how strange the sun.”— New York Times Book Review

      Living Next Door to the God of Love
      3,4
    • Keeping it Real

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves. Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty but now she's not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart . . . well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rockstar she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that anymore either.

      Keeping it Real
      3,3
    • Die Verschmelzung

      Roman. Deutsche Erstausgabe

      • 412pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      In einer gar nicht so fernen Zukunft wird ein Großteil der Menschheit mit den Mitteln der Gentechnik umgestaltet, um die Probleme zu meistern, die die interstellare Raumfahrt und das weitere Überleben auf der Erde aufwerfen. Lebende und denkende Raumschiffe werden auf jahrzehntelange, einsame Missionen ausgesandt. Eines dieser Schiffe ist Isol. Auf ihrer Reise kollidiert sie mit einer außerirdischen Substanz, die nicht nur die Möglichkeit nahezu unbegrenzten interstellaren Reisens eröffnet, sondern auch der Schlüssel zu einer weiteren Transformation der Menschheit zu sein scheint. Als Isol ins irdische Sonnensystem zurückkehrt, wird ihr Fund für eine ganze Reihe politischer Fraktionen zum Objekt des Begehrens. ...aus amazon.de

      Die Verschmelzung
      2,7
    • Die Nekromanten der Tzarkomanen opferten dereinst tausend Frauen, um eine Braut für den Blutschlächter zu erschaffen. Doch der Blutschlächter ist tot, und so darbte die Kreatur, die seine ewige Herrschaft sichern sollte, verlassen von ihren Schöpfern an einem längst vergessenen Ort. Bis heute … Wird die Braut des Schlächters die Götter nun wieder zurückholen oder wird sie das Ende aller Tage herbeiführen? Alles hängt von dem Wesen ab, das sie gefunden hat: Kula, ein kleines Mädchen mit gebrochenem Herzen, das nichts mehr zu verlieren hat. Das neue epische Fantasy-Abenteuer aus der Welt von Adrian Tchaikovskys "Die erlösende Klinge". Buch 2 der Shared-World-Serie "Nach dem Krieg" Die Shared-World-Serie "Nach dem Krieg" im Überblick Buch 1: Die erlösende Klinge Buch 2: Feuer der Erlösung

      Feuer der Erlösung