Ian McDonald crea narrative che approfondiscono temi profondi di trasformazione umana e potenziale, spesso ambientate in futuri vividamente immaginati o realtà alternative. La sua prosa distintiva è ricca di dettagli ed evocativa, attirando i lettori in mondi complessi. Il lavoro di McDonald è celebrato per la sua profondità intellettuale e la sua capacità di provocare la contemplazione sulla traiettoria dell'umanità. La sua scrittura si distingue per l'originalità e la natura stimolante delle sue idee.
Everett Singh è riuscito a fuggire dalle grinfie di Charlotte Villiers, ma a un prezzo altissimo: la perdita di suo padre, il fisico Tejendra Singh, in uno degli universi paralleli del multiverso. Ora, a bordo della Everness, Everett sta studiando l'Infundibulum, la mappa dei mondi della Panoplia redatta dal padre, per effettuare il prossimo salto Heisenberg che condurrà lui e l'equipaggio della nave in un altro dei mondi paralleli. Ma la malvagia Charlotte Villiers è un passo avanti a lui...
Nel XXII secolo la Luna è stata ormai colonizzata dall'uomo e industrializzata. Le sue preziose risorse - l'elio-3, il carbonio, il ghiaccio e i metalli rari - vengono estratte ed esportate sulla Terra. A controllare il proficuo commercio sono i "Cinque Draghi", cinque famiglie tanto potenti quanto spietate e pronte a tutto pur di difendere la propria posizione e i propri privilegi. La società spaziale è tornata alle lotte e ai valori feudali, come sa bene Adriana Corta, a capo di una delle corporazioni, che è riuscita a sottrarre il controllo dell'elio-3 alla Mackenzie Metals. Ormai anziana, deve difendere la florida azienda di famiglia dai moltissimi nemici che si è fatta negli anni. Ma basta un niente, nel difficile ambiente lunare, perché le mutevoli lealtà e le macchinazioni politiche dei cinque clan raggiungano il punto di rottura e si scateni una guerra dagli imprevedibili risultati... Una saga grandiosa, ricca e stratificata di echi letterari, da Martin al Garcia Marquez di "Cent'anni di solitudine". Un'acclamata trilogia, piena di avventura, che ci spingerà a guardare con occhi nuovi al nostro solo apparentemente innocuo e pacifico satellite. Raccoglie i romanzi: Luna Nuova Luna Piena Luna Crescente
Un avvincente romanzo sulla realtà virtuale: un giovane studente e manipolatore di computer grafica, Ethan Ring, scopre che le immagini generate al compiutere possiedono poteri infiniti: il potere di guarire, di cancellare i ricordi, di provocare l'estasi, di uccidere senza rimorso alcuno...
This book is one of many that fall part of a series. Designed to assist reluctant readers and dyslexia sufferers, this book follows the British Dyslexia Association guidelines (printed on cream paper, double line spacing, large font, left justified and plenty of pictograms). Alien Teeth is the crazy new sequel to the extremely popular Eyeball Soup. When you accidentally sit on a set of teeth, they can be hard to remove from your bottom...especially when they belong to an alien who left them behind on a flying visit to Earth. The precious molars belong to Emperor Zarg and he wants them back! With fabulous illustrations, Alien Teeth is packed full of schoolboy humour and the narrative hurtles relentlessly from one outrageous disaster to another. This excellent Reluctant/Dyslexic Reader has special appeal to boys and was also selected by the SLA Boys into Books Project (5-11).
World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didn't die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. War between their kingdoms is inevitable, total and terrible. The Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, the Fabreen and Dityu empires. The airship is attacked, but then defended by the forces of the Fabreen, who offers theEverness crew protection. But what is the true motive behind Empress Aswiu's aid? What is her price? The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse.
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly
created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal
influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. This book goes back to the heart of
The Beatles - their records.
'Dark, twisty and excellent . . . Grimdark with heart' Mark Lawrence For Ryhalt Galharrow, working for Crowfoot as a Blackwing captain is about as bad as it gets - especially when his orders are garbled, or incoherent, or impossible to carry out. The Deep Kings are hurling fire from the sky, a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady had begun to manifest in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power while the city burns around them. Galharrow may not be able to do much about the cult - or about strange orders from the Nameless - but when Crowfoot's arcane vault is breached and an object of terrible power is stolen, he's propelled into a race against time to recover it. Only to do that, he needs answers, and finding them means travelling into nightmare: to the very heart of the Misery. RAVENCRY is the second book in the Raven's Mark series, continuing the story that began with the award winning epic fantasy BLACKWING.
The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The Expanse A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons—five families that control the Moon’s leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain—marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel. Witness the Dragons' final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald's heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy. Luna 1. Luna: New Moon 2. Luna: Wolf Moon 3. Luna: Moon Rising
An amazing roller coaster ride through the frontiers of the imagination from the author of the award-winning King of Morning, Queen of Day. Here are eleven previously uncollected tales filled with magic, humor, and the stunning realism that can surface only in the most well-conceived fantasies.
West Indian poet Ian McDonald journeys down the generations of his family, describing with a loving and fascinated eye his ancestors, including warriors, poets, actors, doctors, merchants, sportsmen and civil servants, and concluding with his grand-parents and beloved parents.
The BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author returns with the second
part of his stunning moon colonisation epic, perfect for fans of THE MARTIAN
and RED MARS.
In the 21st century nanotechnology can resurrect the dead, and by the year 2063 the dead account for a third of the world's population. This novel, from the author of "Hearts, Hands and Voices", is set in Necroville, the City of the Dead within 21st-century Los Angeles.
Ian McDonald's first novel, which announced the arrival of an exciting new
voice in the realm of science fiction. There's nowhere quite like Desolation
Road. Once you go there, you may never be the same . . .
August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods. RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.
Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.
In 2003, following a large meteor strike on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, researches discover a growing infestation of an alien life-form growing, a phenomenon that could mean the destruction or transformation of the human race. Reprint.
This collection of four novellas of humanity's struggle for survival in the far future features "Watching Trees Grow" by Peter F. Hamilton; "Reality Dust" by Stephen Baxter; "Making History" by Paul McAuley; and "Tendeleo's Story" by Ian McDonald.
For almost 30,000 years The Land has been a dependency of The Empire Across The River. The Empire retains a mechanistic technology in the hands of the wealthy and the civil service, but The Land uses its dead, whose brains are linked to a massive data network. By the author of "Desolation Road".
In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families.Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works.Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They’re unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they’re determined to find the moon’s first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there.
Subject: Product Design With clear and concise revision notes that cover everything you'll need to know for the exam, this effective Product Design revision guide supports active revision for students working at all levels. Plenty of quick tests and practice questions test and reinforce understanding of the key content.
Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
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Les McDonald, a prominent figure in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was deeply involved in the 1966 Lenkurt Electric strike, a pivotal event in Canadian labor history that resulted in the imprisonment of union leaders. This book explores his journey from a Communist activist to a key player in labor movements, detailing his efforts in Local 213 and the establishment of triathlon as an Olympic sport. Drawing on extensive archival research and personal interviews, it sheds light on the local union's leftist activism and the broader historical context from 1955 to 1985.
Joe's school friends don't know he lives on a barge and he is worried about telling them. What will happen when the whole class come to visit his unusual home? (Letter-sounds /k/ /sh/ ch /j/ ge dge /uh/ o)Joe's Barge is part of the Rocket Phonics teaching and learning programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.Reading 5-6.
As he enters his nineties, the poet's world has become, increasingly, his
house and garden, his wife, children and grandchildren, a world experienced as
no less rich than anything in the past - indeed ever more precious for its
evanescence.
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential
Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge
through reading in context. Scruffy at the Show allows children to apply their
phonics learning from Year 1, Spring 1, Week 1 of Essential Letters and
Sounds.
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential
Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge
through reading in context. Agnes, the Giant and the Bridge allows children to
apply their phonics learning from Year 1 , Summer 1, Week 6 of Essential
Letters and Sounds.
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential
Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge
through reading in context. Simran Makes a Splash allows children to apply
their phonics learning from Year 1, Autumn 2, Week 4 of Essential Letters and
Sounds.
Ist das noch unser Planet? In der Nacht des 22. Dezembers 2032 hörte das Universum, wie wir es kennen, auf zu existieren. Die Menschheit hat es nur noch nicht bemerkt … Das Chaga, die seltsame Flora, die aus dem All zur Erde geschickt wurde, hat sich weiter ausgebreitet und damit begonnen, die Äquatorregionen der Erde zu verändern. Welchem Zweck das dient und wer – oder was – dahintersteckt, ist immer noch völlig unklar. Die ehemalige Reporterin Gaby McAslan hat inzwischen eine Tochter, Selena, zur Welt gebracht, doch weil sie Kontakt mit dem Chaga hatte, führt sie jetzt ein Leben im Exil. Auch Selena wurde von der Alien-Chemie verändert, und nicht nur Gaby muss lernen, mit diesen Veränderungen zu leben …
Außerirdische Flüchtlinge kommen auf die Erde und versuchen, sich in die menschliche Gesellschaft zu integrieren. Trotz der Erlaubnis zur Ansiedlung bestehen große Unterschiede, und radikale Fundamentalisten sind auf beiden Seiten präsent.
Eine rätselhafte, poetische Geschichte von drei wunderbaren Frauen: Sie beginnt 1913, als die junge Emily mythische Figuren zum Leben erweckt, die fortan sie und ihre Nachkommen Jessica und Enye begleiten. Die drei Frauen dringen in das dunkle, lebendig gewordene Reich ihres Unterbewußtseins ein, das ihre reale, hektische Welt des 20. Jahrhunderts überlagert und verändert. Auf unterschiedlichste Weise versuchen Emily und ihre Nachfahren sich der Mächte ihrer eigenen Traumzeit zu erwehren. Während die eine den mythischen Wesen nachgibt, versucht die andere, ihnen zu entkommen. Die dritte hingegen bekämpft sie mit Drogen und einem SamuraiSchwert. »Ein faszinierender, wichtiger Roman, absolut lesenswert.« LOCUS Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung
Am Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts: Dank der allmächtigen Computer ist die Welt perfekt; keine Kriege, keine Krankheiten bedrohen die Menschheit. Jedermann hat glücklich zu sein - oder er macht sich eines Verbrechens gegen die Gesellschaft schuldig. In der Megalopolis Yu lebt die Zeichnerin Courtney Hall ihr verordnetes glückliches Leben, bis einer ihrer Cartoons der allgegenwärtigen Glückspolizei mißfällt. Courtney muß fliehen und lernt plötzlich die andere Seite ihrer Schönen Neuen Welt kennen. In einem düsteren Labyrinth unter der Stadt kämpfen die Verrückten und Verbannten von Yu ums Überleben - und träumen von einer Rebellion der Freiheit, die plötzlich Wirklichkeit werden kann. IAN MCDONALD gilt als eine der originellsten Stimmen der neuen Science Fiction. Sein erster Roman Straße der Verlassenheit (Bastei-Lübbe 24141) wurde in den USA mit dem begehrten Locus-A ward ausgezeichnet. Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung
To wszystko zaczęło się trzydzieści lat temu na Marsie, od zielonej osoby. Miasteczko Droga Bez Znaczenia przeszło przez niezwykłe anomalie, od Objazdowej Edukacyjno-Rozrywkowej Ekstrawagancji Adama Blacka, z prawdziwym aniołem w klatce, po Niesamowity Powietrzny Bazar Tatterdemalionów. Mieszkańcy to pełen przekrój osobowości: doktor Alimantanda, lokalny geniusz i założyciel, Babuszka, staruszka pragnąca dziecka, Rajendra Das, włóczęga z magiczną ręką do maszyn, oraz bracia Gallacellich, identyczne trojaczki zakochane w tej samej kobiecie. Akcja rozgrywa się w kalejdoskopowej przyszłości Drogi Bez Znaczenia - na terraformowanym Marsie, gdzie termojądrowe lokomotywy kursują po torach będących planetarnym krwiobiegiem, a sztuczne inteligencje nieustannie rekonfigurują rzeczywistość. Pewna młoda kobieta, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim Maszynistka XII, staje się kluczową postacią, od której zależy przyszłość Marsa. Dzieje się tu z przytupem, awanturniczo i zabawnie, a autor czerpie inspiracje z Marsa Raya Bradbury'ego oraz terraformowanych wizji Kima Stanleya Robinsona i Grega Beara, tworząc szaloną fantastykę połączoną z realizmem magicznym, pełną dziwacznych filozofii i niespodziewanych pomysłów.
Nechte se okouzlit jedním z největších a nejzvláštnějších národů světa. Minulost, současnost i budoucnost Brazílie s veškerou její barvitostí, vášní a proměnlivostí splývají ve fascinujícím díle, které je zčásti science fiction a zčásti historií.
São Paulo, 2032
Jen krůček od slumů São Paula blízké budoucnosti, ve městě pohádkového bohatství a chudoby, si Edson vlastními silami buduje firmu na hledání talentů. Náhodné setkání ho vtáhne do nebezpečného prostředí ilegálních kvantových výpočtů, jenže kam se dá uprchnout ve světě, v němž je neustále sledován každý pohyb i tvář?
Rio de Janeiro, 2006
Ambiciózní rijská televizní produkční Marcelina hledá ten pravý hit, reality show, na níž by si vybudovala pověst. Když ji nejnovější inspirace zavede na stopu zavrženého brankáře ze Světového poháru, nechtě se zaplete do pradávné konspirace, která ji ohrožuje nejen na životě, ale i na duši.
Amazonie, 1732
Jezuita otec Luis je vyslán do kvasu Brazílie osmnáctého století s úkolem najít a potrestat odpadlého kněze, jenž sešel z cesty pravé víry a vybudoval v brazilském vnitrozemí obrovskou říši. To, co otec Luis v doprovodu francouzského zeměpisce objeví v zapadlých končinách Amazonky, je krajní zkouškou pro jeho víru i chápání samé podstaty reality.
Tři postavy, tři příběhy, tři Brazílie, vše spojeno napříč časem, prostorem a realitou v nesmírně ambiciózním románu, jenž zpochybní váš způsob uvažování doslova o všem.
Über Gefühle wird nicht gesprochen. Diese Maxime gilt für die meisten Männer immer noch, auch wenn sie nach einer Trennung von Zorn und Trauer erfüllt sind und kaum damit fertig werden. Finanziell oder juristisch Rat zu finden ist nicht schwer. Anders sieht es in Gefühlsdingen aus. Dies hält Ian Macdonald für falsch. Er zeigt anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele und mit viel Einfühlung und Humor, wie man als Mann eine Trennung auch emotional und psychisch überstehen und gereift aus der Erfahrung hervorgehen kann. Seine Tipps sind lebensnah und klar strukturiert. Er behandelt in kompakter Form alle Fragen von der Trennung selbst bis zum richtigen Umgang mit den Kindern, von der Sexualität und der Gewalt, die aus Wut entsteht, bis hin zu den neuen Lebensumständen, etwa der Wohnung, die man sich sucht, oder der Art der Mahlzeiten, mit denen man sich ernährt.
