Гарднер Дозуа — библиография

Джимми Даниэльс научился перемещаться по параллельным мирам, вот только контролировать это он не может. Просыпаясь каждое утро в новом мире, приходилось приспосабливаться к новой вариации его семьи.

A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?In a fight outside a bar Ramon Espejo kills a man. Next day, all hell breaks loose. The dead man was a big shot, a diplomat on a mission to the out-world of S?o Paulo. Ramon goes on the run, heading north toward unexplored territory, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys.Ramon has gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on S?o Paulo. He makes a bare living prospecting for minerals. Maybe God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn't have made him so mean. He can't even remember why he killed the European, only the drinking, and the rage that followed.Better to be alone in the wild landscape … off the map, beyond law and civilization. Each trip out he's sure will be the big one that'll make him rich. This one, too.Instead he finds something else, something terrifying. Or rather, it finds him, and uses him: as humans are used by species more intelligent than themselves. But Ramon Espejo is about to prove what a man is capable of. Ramon is about to demonstrate what it is to be human; to be angry, intelligent and alive. And he is about to discover his function in the broad flow of the universe. And why it was he killed the diplomat in the first place…

Старика звали Чарлз Цудак. В день, когда ему исполнилось восемьдесят лет, искусственные интеллекты снова поставили его перед выбором — или умереть и вскоре быть забытым, или обрести бессмертие и повести за собой других людей на освоение Вселенной…
© god54

Рассказ о мальчике и старике, выживающих на осколках уничтоженной глобальной войной цивилизации.

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

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.

Жизнь Рамона Эсперо круто меняется после пьяной драки в баре, которая заставляет его сбежать от цивилизации в дикую природу. Неприятности Рамона на этом не заканчиваются – он попадает в плен к инопланетянам и вынужден пуститься в погоню за своим соплеменником, который вызнал тайну пришельцев. Каково же удивление Рамона, когда он узнает, что беглец – это он сам. Больше узнавая о судьбе, похитившей его расы, его мировоззрение меняется. Что заставило Рамона рискнуть своей жизнью в попытке сохранить тайну пришельцев?

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.

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...