Роберт Сойер — книжные серии

Завершение трилогии «Неандертальский параллакс» — победителя премии «Аврора». Понтер Боддет и его возлюбленная, генетик Мэри Воган, разрываются между двумя мирами, пытаясь найти способ наладить свои невозможные, на первый взгляд, отношения. С помощью запрещенной неандертальской генной инженерии они планируют зачать первого ребенка-гибрида — символ надежды на объединение двух версий реальности. У них есть возможность редактировать генотип ребенка так, чтобы не возникли никакие патологии. Тем временем, пока Земля Мэри борется с коллапсом планетарного магнитного поля, ее руководитель, загадочный Джок Кригер, обратил взор, полный зависти,…

Портал между двумя мирами снова открыт. Неандертальский физик Понтер Боддет возвращается на нашу Землю, но теперь уже в качестве посланника, призванного помочь двум мирам наладить диалог и культурный обмен. Однако разница в истории, общественном устройстве и духовных ценностях оказывается более серьезной проблемой на пути к сотрудничеству, чем могло показаться изначально. Тем временем генетик Мэри Воган, с которой Понтер возобновляет отношения, оказывается в мире неандертальцев. Теперь у нее есть уникальная возможность исследовать почти утопическую цивилизацию и сравнить наши культуры.

На параллельной Земле неандертальцы создали совершенно иную цивилизацию. Физик Понтер Боддет случайно попадает из своей вселенной в канадский исследовательский центр. К его удаче, команда ученых-людей, включая эксперта-палеоантрополога Мэри Воган, быстро опознают и принимают Понтера. Решить языковую проблему и многие другие мелкие неудобства помогает имплант-компаньон, который вживлен в каждого неандертальца. Однако, он не может устранить межкультурные различия, ведь многое чуждо Понтеру. Не может он и помочь своему коллеге Адекору Халду, оставшемуся в мире неандертальцев и обвиненного в убийстве Понтера.

Уже почти двадцать лет космические исследования Земли стремительно развиваются, благодаря таинственным межпространственным стяжкам, позволяющим в мгновение ока перенестись в самый дальний уголок космоса. Звездолет «Старплекс» под командованием Кейта Лансинга построен для поиска новых разумных видов. В своем путешествии ему придется пройти множество испытаний и найти загадочных создателей межзвездной транспортной сети…

Создание атомных бомб и их применение против Японии кажется Роберту Оппенгеймеру катастрофой. Новая бомба на основе ядерного синтеза, над которой работает Эдвард Теллер, может стать еще чудовищнее. Но оказывается, есть проблема похуже. Выясняется, что к 2030 году Солнце выбросит свой внешний слой, уничтожив Землю. Теперь, после конца войны, величайшие умы человечества собираются вместе, чтобы бросить вызов времени и спасти будущее.

Психолог-экспериментатор Джим Марчук разработал безупречную методику для выявления скрытых психопатов в обществе. Но, будучи подвергнут перекрестному допросу об этих исследованиях в суде, Джим с потрясением обнаруживает, что потерял воспоминания двадцатилетней давности о периоде своей жизни длиной в шесть месяцев — темном времени, в течение которого он сам, возможно, совершал отвратительные поступки. Спустя много лет он вновь встречает Кайлу Гурон — бывшую подругу из своего давно забытого прошлого. Сегодня она — квантовый физик, сделавший ошеломительное открытие о природе человеческого сознания. Поскольку поток насилия и ненависти, все…

Webmind - the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web - has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated.

Caitlin Decter - the once-blind sixteen-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind - wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything - Webmind included - may come crashing down.

Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States-and they're fully aware of Caitlin's involvement in its awakening.

WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion-and she will do anything and everything necessary to protect her friend.

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace.

Caitlin was born blind, and when, newly arrived in tenth grade, she is offered a chance at an experimental procedure to give her sight, she leaps at it, despite previous disappointments. When she returns from the Tokyo hospital in which she underwent the procedure, it seems a failure. Soon enough, though, she discovers that, instead of reality, she is perceiving the Web. What’s particularly interesting is the background noise. Something strange is floating around behind the nodes of normal Webspace; a closer look reveals that, whatever it is, it’s not just meaningless noise. Caitlin’s story alternates with those of Hobo, a chimp whose claim to fame is being one of the first two apes to video-chat online; an entity of mysterious provenance; and a Chinese dissident blogger who is quite curious about why everything from outside China is blocked. Sawyer’s take on theories about the origin of consciousness, generated within the framework of an engaging story, is fascinating, and his approach to machine consciousness and the Internet is surprisingly fresh.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010.

In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry - making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land.

In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail - a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history.

Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapiens lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.

But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith - something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world . . .
Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.

Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid, that has made other choices. In Humans, Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin.

As we see daily life in another present-day world, radically different from ours, in the course of Sawyer's fast-moving story, we experience the bursts of wonder and enlightenment that are the finest pleasures of science fiction. Humans is one of the best SF novels of the year, and The Neanderthal Parallax is an SF classic in the making.
Humans is a 2004 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.

Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy.

Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended—by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport.

Ponter’s partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around and an explosive murder trial. How can he possibly prove his innocence when he has no idea what actually happened to Ponter?
Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Fossil Hunter is hard SF in the tradition of Larry Niven about a world inhabited by the Quintaglios, a dinosaurian species that has evolved a human level of intelligence and culture.

Toroca, a Quintaglio geologist, is under attack for his controversial new theory of evolution. But the origins of his people turn out to be more complex than even he imagined, for he soon discovers the wreckage of an ancient starship -- a relic of the aliens who transplanted Earth's dinosaurs to this solar system. Now, Toroca must convince Emperor Dybo that evolution is true; otherwise, the territorial violence the Quintaglios inherited from their tyrannosaur ancestors will destroy the last survivors of Earth's prehistoric past.

In Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter, we met the Quintaglios, a race of intelligent dinosaurs from Earth and learned of the threat to their very existence. Now they must quickly advance from a culture equivalent to our Renaissance to the point where they can leave their planet.
While the Quintaglios rush to develop space travel, the discovery of a second species of intelligent dinosaur rocks their most fundamental beliefs. Meanwhile, blind Afsan -- the dinosaurian Galileo -- undergoes the newfangled treatment of psychoanalysis, throwing everything he thought he knew about his violent people into a startling new light.

The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. But when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith... and may save his world from disaster!

Три внецикловых романа.

В данном сборнике представлены романы «Золотое руно», «Триггеры», «Мнемоскан», «Жить дальше», «Пришелец и закон» и 15 рассказов известного канадского писателя-фантаста Роберта Сойера . Перевод Владислава Слободяна.

Авторский сборник. Три внецикловых романа и три рассказа.

Приблизительно десять тысяч лет назад наш мир, по странной случайности разделился на два параллельных «потока», две ветви. В первой версии выжили наши предки — Homo Sapiens, во второй же версии их место заняли «конкуренты» — Homo Neanderthalensis. Естественно, со своей культурой, ценностями и приоритетами.
И эти, родственные по сути, но очень разные миры неизбежно столкнутся...