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Book Description A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois. Includes: "Morning Child," "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The

Мужчина на своей машине пытается выехать из Нью-Джерси, в котором происходят беспорядки. На дорогах блокпосты и пробки, везде сотни беженцев, но он уже близок к цели. Нужно лишь преодолеть пункт проверки...

Мир захватил искусственный интеллект, изменяющий все по своему усмотрению. Разрушаются города, исчезают океаны, сталкиваются материки. Клейстерман, выменявший у ИИ технологию, помогающую ему летать, и небольшая группа людей, родившихся до Изменения, пытаются остановить машины.

One day the aliens landed, just as everyone always said they would.
They fell out of a guileless blue sky and into the middle of a clear, cold
November day, four of them, four alien ships drifting down like the snow that
had been threatening to fall all week. America was just shouldering its way
into daylight as they made planetfall, so they landed there: one in the
Delaware Valley about fifteen miles north of Philadelphia, one in Ohio, one in
a desolate region of Colorado, and one -- for whatever reason -- in a cane
field outside of Caracas, Venezuela...

Hundreds of years in the future, Earthmen have moved out into the galaxy of inhabited worlds, but only through the gift of advanced technology from alien interstellar traders. Earthmen do not dominate among inhabited worlds, as many races are older and wiser -- in fact, space travelers from Earth are second-class citizens or worse on most of the planets they visit. Joseph Farber, an artist, is part of the uncomfortable and decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach. As with many earthling spacefarers, Farber suffers a decline in spirits when faced with the utter difference of alien cultures, yet he is deeply moved by the rituals of the Cian -- and by Liraun, a humanoid Cian, with whom he falls in love. And though love between races is forbidden, he allows himself to be genetically altered so that he and Liraun may marry and interbreed. But the couple soon discovers that the fundamental differences between their races and cultures prevent adequate communication between them. This lack of communication leads to a powerful climax of tragedy and revelation.

Hundreds of years in the future, Earthmen have moved out into the galaxy of inhabited worlds, but only through the gift of advanced technology from alien interstellar traders. Earthmen do not dominate among inhabited worlds, as many races are older and wiser -- in fact, space travelers from Earth are second-class citizens or worse on most of the planets they visit.

Joseph Farber, an artist, is part of the uncomfortable and decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach. As with many earthling spacefarers, Farber suffers a decline in spirits when faced with the utter difference of alien cultures, yet he is deeply moved by the rituals of the Cian -- and by Liraun, a humanoid Cian, with whom he falls in love. And though love between races is forbidden, he allows himself to be genetically altered so that he and Liraun may marry and interbreed. But the couple soon discovers that the fundamental differences between their races and cultures prevent adequate communication between them. This lack of communication leads to a powerful climax of tragedy and revelation.

Мир постигла катастрофа — неотвратимо поднимается уровень океанов и постепенно затапливает всю сушу. 13-летний Рой, в хаосе и панике первых месяцев потерял своих родителей. Теперь Рой живет на ферме в глубинке, где за кров и еду, ему приходится тяжело работать. Но вот однажды, отношение к нему изменилось, ему запретили работать и стали кормить как нa убой... © ceh