Maarten Meeuwes Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Per pagarsi gli studi di recitazione, Lisa lavora in un bar di Manhattan. Una sera conosce Arthur, un giovane medico di pronto soccorso che sembra avere tutte le carte in regola per piacerle, e Lisa in effetti ne rimane subito affascinata. Ma Arthur nasconde una storia che lo rende diverso da chiunque abbia incontrato prima d’ora: possiede un faro, ricevuto in eredità dal padre, una torre battuta dai venti in riva all’oceano nelle cui acque suo nonno è misteriosamente scomparso alcuni decenni prima. Il dono gli è stato fatto a una condizione: Arthur non deve aprire la porta metallica della cantina. Malgrado la promessa fatta al padre, il giovane non trattiene la sua curiosità, spalancando la porta su un terribile segreto da cui sembra impossibile poter tornare indietro. Riuscirà l’amore per Lisa a dargli la forza necessaria per superare le insidie di una folle corsa contro il tempo?

Sir Paul McCartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he's become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket to the Guinness Book of Records. McCartney's ballad Yesterday, which he wrote in his sleep, has since been covered by 2,400 other artists - making it the most popular song of all time.Now Christopher Sandford reveals the man behind the myth... Among the eye-opening stories is the surprising love-hate relationship with John Lennon, not to mention with Lennon's widow, as well as an insider's account of McCartney's controversial marriage to Heather Mills. Likeswise, Sir Paul's restless creativity - both mainstream and avant-garde - his second group and his marriage to the late Linda McCartney are seen here in fresh and stunning detail.This behind the scenes story takes readers right up to today, as Sir Paul passes his 64th birthday. It's a hard, fast, sometimes shocking saga of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - the true adventure of the last showbiz superstar.

When the Cservanka Circus comes to Virginia as part of its world tour, Andy Moore ends up getting a summer job in the virtual games section, managed by Radu. Radu seems to be running a successful black market operation and it soon becomes clear that he has an ulterior motive in using Andy's computer skills. Andy and the Net Force Explorers must stop Radu from converting Andy's games software into a real weapons guidance system before an international catastrophe beyond anyone's wildest dream is realised...

Sneaking out every night to join her friends in a series of pranks, Diane becomes alarmed when her boyfriend, Lenny, plays a joke on a hated teacher that proves fatal, and she realizes that she and her friends have gone too far.

Andy Moore lost his father when he was just a small child. His father, a highly decorated Marine captain, died fighting in the South African War in 2014. A decade later, one of the kids at Andy's school claims that Andy's father wasn't a hero at all, that he released an illegal biological weapon that killed 5,000 civilians. The kid has evidence that seems to prove it but what nobody knows is that he hacked highly sensitive information from the South African government archives and doctored it to make Andy's dad look bad. And a slew of South African spies, willing to do anything up to and including murder, are about to descend on the school to get that information back...

In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The First Law states, A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created... A robot without guilt or conscience. A robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity. A robot without the Three Laws. Caliban is a searing examination of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the late beloved genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by one of today's hottest talents, Roger MacBride Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Ambush at Corella, The Modular Man, and The Ring of Charon.

The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories.

Trouble literally lands in Jim Qwilleran's own backyard when the local theatre's universally disliked director is found dead in Qwilleran's apple orchard. Qwilleran and his two feline detectives search for an actor who is playing the part of a killer.

Based on an Asimov short story, The Ugly Little Boy. A children's nurse is hired as part of a scientific project aimed at bringing a living being from the past to the present. A four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.

WHY? That crime and that question lead a biotransformed policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the Bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind - into the nightmare soul - of the psychopath himself. This is science fiction at its best: a detective story, a story of virtual reality entrapments and the coming to consciousness of an Artificial Intelligence . . .

Kalgash wacht een ramp - maar slechts enkelen zien dat in. Al tweeduizend jaar is het dag op deze wereld, want steeds stond er een combinatie van zijn zes zonnen aan de hemel. Maar nu nadert de nacht. Spoedig zullen de zonnen allemaal tegelijk ondergaan - en die verschrikkelijke schemering zal een paniek veroorzaken die het einde van de beschaving inluidt. Asimov publiceerde zijn korte verhaal ZONSONDERGANG voor het eerst in 1941. Het werd een klassieker, en de auteur een legende. Maar het korte verhaal is niet het hele verhaal. Om dat te vertellen ging Isaac Asimov een unieke samenwerking aan met meervoudig Hugo en Nebuia Award-winnaar Robert Silverberg.

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets—and nothing will ever be the same again...