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Публицистика - Кэмерон Хёрли "The Geek Feminist Revolution"
Редактор - Эллен Датлоу
Ellen Datlow
Журнал - Tor.com
Издательство- Tor Books
Художник - Джулия Диллон
Страна: США
Место проведения: Сиэтл, штат Вашингтон
Дата проведения: 24 июня 2017 г.
Лю Цысинь4.3 Эра Устрашения, приход которой описан во второй части трилогии, не покончила с драматическим противостоянием Земли и Трисоляриса. Однако опасность ещё более грозная нависла над земной цивилизацией — с тех пор, как из Солнечной Системы и её окрестностей во Вселенную несколько раз отправлены были кодированные сигналы, означающие наличие в этом регионе космоса высокоразвитого разума. Ибо Мироздание — это Тёмный Лес, населённый непримиримыми врагами, прячущимися друг от друга и уничтожающими всякого, кто имел неосторожность дать знать о своём существовании ближним и дальним соседям. Получив недвусмысленное практическое подтверждение этой концепции, объединённое человечество начинает напряжённую подготовку к отражению возможной атаки, вступая в так называемую Эру Бункера. Удастся ли землянам сделать всё, что было в их силах? Все ли полученные предупреждения учли и разгадали учёные Солнечной Системы? Об этом читатель узнает, прочитав заключительный роман трилогии «В память о прошлом Земли», так же, как и две предыдущие её книги, полный удивительных свершений, побед и трагедий, потрясающих открытий и прозрений.
Джеймс Кори4.2 Назревавшая десятилетиями революция Пояса началась в огне. Окончится она кровью. Свободный флот - радикальная группа астеров - нанес непоправимый ущерб Земле и теперь ведет пиратскую войну среди внешних планет Солнечной системы. Направляющиеся в тысячи новых миров за вратами колонисты становятся легкой добычей, и не осталось кораблей, достаточно сильных, чтобы их защитить. Команда Джеймса Холдена лучше других знает преимущества и слабости Свободного флота. Уступающие ему в числе и мощи остатки старых политических сил взывают к «Росинанту», поручая ему отчаянную миссию: достичь станции Медина в сердце сети колец-врат. Однако и новый альянс уязвим, а борьба за власть только начинается.
Colson Whitehead3.9 Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
Леви Тидхар3.3 250 000 мигрантов остались жить у подножия гигантского космического вокзала. Культуры сплавились вместе, как реальность и виртуальность. Город вокруг продолжает расти, словно сорняк. Жизнь дешева, а инфа ничего не стоит. Борис Чонг возвращается домой с Марса. Многое изменилось. У него появился ауг — марсианский симбионт, меняющий восприятие. Бывшая любовница воспитывает странного ребенка, способного «касаться» сознанием потоков данных. Двоюродная сестра влюблена в роботника — поврежденного киборга, ветерана войн, о которых уже никто не помнит. Отец неизлечимо болен раком памяти. А следом за Борисом тайно прилетает инфо-вампир. Над ними всеми возвышается Центральная станция, межпланетный узел между Землей и космическими колониями, куда человечество во всем своем многообразии ушло, чтобы избежать войн и бедствий. Все связано с Иными, могущественными сущностями, которые через Разговор, глобальную сеть потока сознания, вызывают безвозвратные изменения. Люди и машины Центральной станции продолжают приспосабливаться, процветать и эволюционировать...
Мэдлин Эшби3.5 New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.
Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?
Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal.
A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself. (Amazon.com)
C. J. Cherryh0.0 The seventeenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…
The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the Reunion system and, without a word, melted a major section of Reunion Station with a single pass. These refugees, who were rescued through the combined efforts of an allied group of humans and atevi and brought to safety at Alpha, are now desperate with fear.
Bren Cameron—brilliant human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi political leader on the mainland below, and also the appointee of the human president of the island nation of Mospheira—is the obvious choice of representative to be sent up to deal with both the panicked refugees and the incoming alien ship.
As a member of the spacefaring delegation who rescued the refugees, Bren has talked to kyo before—and even won their trust by saving one of their kind from a Reunioner prison. Because of his remarkable diplomatic and linguistic abilities, Bren managed to communicate with that grateful kyo individual on a limited basis, and he has evidence that that same kyo is on the ship heading to defenseless Alpha Station.
But no one can predict what an alien race might do, or what their motivations could be.
And Bren Cameron, the only human ever to be accepted into atevi society, is now the one individual with a hope of successfully interacting with the crew of the incoming ship. But Bren knows it will take putting himself in the hands of the kyo.
Can Bren count on the gratitude of one individual alien to save his life and the lives of thousands on Alpha Station?
Стивен Бакстер, Аластер Рейнольдс3.5 Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa, this novel, with permission from the Clarke Estate, continues the story of Commander Howard Falcon over centuries of space-exploration, interaction with AI, first contact and beyond. All brought to life by two of our greatest SF authors, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds.
Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident . . . and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. Not as himself, but as an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable.
The Medusa Chronicles charts his journey through time, the changing interaction between humanity and our universe, and combined moments of incredible action with unparalleled exploration of and expansion into space.
Emma Newman4.7 Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas’s departure, it’s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room—and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation.
To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There’s more to Casales’s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...
Robert Charles Wilson4.0 Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the "natives" become more sophisticated, their version of the "past" grows less attractive as a destination. Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back - no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it.
Greg Bear0.0 The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear.
Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system.
Haunted by their dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a Sun-Planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system-including the enigmatic Gurus.
Charlie Jane Anders3.7 From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our future
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families.
But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention into the changing global climate. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined to bring them together--to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse.
Гай Гэвриел Кей4.4 В новой книге Гай Гэвриэл Кей описывает мир, вдохновленный драмами эпохи Возрождения. Мир, в котором сталкиваются империи и религии, джадиты и ашариты. Это история о девушке из пиратского городка Сенджана, жаждущей отомстить за своих родных, погибших во время набега османов. О юном художнике из торгового города-государства Серессы, которого отправили в опасное путешествие на восток рисовать портрет великого калифа. О молодой женщине, посланной Советом Двенадцати города Серессы в качестве шпионки в Дубраву, союзный город-государство. О молодом сыне торговца из Дубравы, который не желает жить в соответствии с правилами своего общества. О мальчике, который с раннего детства обучается в элитной пехоте калифа и мечтает покрыть себя славой в сражениях за повелителя. Жизни и судьбы этих людей и многих других переплетутся в мире под двумя лунами, ибо все они – дети Земли и Неба.
Чайна Мьевиль3.5 В 1941 году бойцы движения Сопротивления изобретают устройство, которое Дали мог бы преподнести в подарок на день рождения Лавкрафту. Неудачное испытание странного оружия открывает дверь между подземельями художественного воображения и вселенной, где Вторая мировая война продолжается до 1950 года, а нацисты пытаются отбить Париж у призраков сюрреализма, призывая на помощь встревоженных конкуренцией демонов старого доброго Ада. Станет ли лекарство хуже болезни? Изысканный труп вливает божоле нуво в старые мехи, чтобы ответить на этот вопрос и поставить новые на службу искусству...
N. K. Jemisin4.0 THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever. It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy. It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last. The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
Ken Liu4.2 The much anticipated sequel to The Grace of Kings which NPR called “A magnificent fantasy epic.” returns with Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, running the archipelago kingdoms of Dara and struggling to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people.
But when an unexpected invasion force from the far distant east known as the Lyucu Empire comes to shores of Dara, chaos erupts from fear.Emperor Ragin cannot go and lead Dara against the threat himself as he has a recently healed empire fraying at its weakest seams, as conflict within rival faction, even with the Emperor’s own family threaten the raw peace that he has established.
Amidst traitorous rebellion and false accusations the emperor’s grown children rise to face the invaders, some with armies, and one with the guile and savvy intuition to empower the unlikely genius that surrounds her, his eldest daughter Théra.
The Wall of Storms is a breathtaking sequel that builds with a towering diversity of action and tragedy that embodies the best of epic fantasy.
Robert Jackson Bennett4.3 A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions.
Now, the city’s god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings.
So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh— foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumored war criminal, ally of an embattled Prime Minister—has been exiled there to count down the days until she can draw her pension and be forgotten.
At least, it makes the perfect cover story.
The truth is that the general has been pressed into service one last time, dispatched to investigate a discovery with the potential to change the world--or destroy it.
The trouble is that this old soldier isn't sure she's still got what it takes to be the hero.
Sofia Samatar0.0 Four women a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history
Jo Walton4.8 Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.
More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries before the Trojan War, populating it with teachers and children from throughout human history, and committing it to building a society based on the principles of Plato's Republic. Among the City's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form.
Sixty years ago, the Just City schismed into five cities, each devoted to a different version of the original vision.
Forty years ago, the five cities managed to bring their squabbles to a close. But in consequence of their struggle, their existence finally came to the attention of Zeus, who can't allow them to remain in deep antiquity, changing the course of human history. Convinced by Apollo to spare the Cities, Zeus instead moved everything on the island to the planet Plato, circling its own distant sun.
Now, more than a generation has passed. The Cities are flourishing on Plato, and even trading with multiple alien species. Then, on the same day, two things happen. Pytheas dies as a human, returning immediately as Apollo in his full glory. And there's suddenly a human ship in orbit around Plato - a ship from Earth.
Peter S. Beagle3.5 Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate.
It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice.
As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. She is taken in by two disenchanted lovers—dynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson — visited by Joanna’s previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. With Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires.
Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Her new family thrives, even as they may be growing apart. But lingering in Lioness’s past is a dark secret — and even summer days must pass.
Юн Ха Ли3.6 Капитан гекзархата Кел Черис опозорила себя нестандартной боевой тактикой. Командование дарит ей последний шанс вернуть честь, отбив захваченную еретиками Крепость Рассыпанных Игл. На карту поставлена не только карьера Черис. Если космическая крепость останется в руках мятежников, гекзархат падет следом. Единственная надежда Черис — это союз с немертвым генералом Джедао, визионером, Архипредателем и безумцем. Он выигрывал битвы, которые невозможно выиграть, и только его военному гению по силам захватить крепость. В своей первой жизни он обезумел и полностью истребил обе армии, одной из которых командовал сам, но теперь он лишь призрак в «черной колыбели». Чем ближе конец осады, тем у Черис возникает больше вопросов к генералу. Так ли он безумен? Что он планирует? Не станет ли она его следующей жертвой?
Nisi Shawl0.0 Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.
Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.
Малка Олдер1.0 It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.
With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the "pax democratica". For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?
"Infomocracy" is Malka Older's debut novel.
PRAISE FOR INFOMOCRACY
“A fast-paced, post-cyberpunk political thriller... If you always wanted to put "The West Wing" in a particle accelerator with "Snow Crash" to see what would happen, read this book.” ―Max Gladstone, author of "Last First Snow"
"Smart, ambitious, bursting with provocative extrapolations, "Infomocracy" is the big-data-big-ideas-techno-analytical-microdemoglobal-post-everything political thriller we've been waiting for." ―Ken Liu, author of "The Grace of Kings"
"In the mid-21st century, your biggest threat isn’t Artificial Intelligence―it’s other people. Yet the passionate, partisan, political and ultimately fallible men and women fighting for their beliefs are also "Infomocracy"’s greatest hope. An inspiring book about what we frail humans could still achieve, if we learn to work together." ―Karl Schroeder, author of "Lockstep" and the Virga saga
Дэвид Левин0.0 18 век. Сто лет назад Англия колонизировала Марс. Здесь, в цветущей британской колонии на Марсе, живёт Арабелла Эшби. Но ремонт механизмов или ребяческие игры с младшим братом — это не то, чем должна заниматься английская леди. Поэтому мать отправляет её в Лондон — экзотическое место, где Арабелла ни разу не была. Но происходят события, которые угрожают безопасности её родного дома, и Арабелла решается на отчаянный поступок. Переодевшись в мальчика, она присоединяется к экипажу корабля «Диана». Теперь Арабелле предстоят тяжёлые испытания. Чтобы спасти свою семью, оставшуюся на Марсе, она должна выжить в войне между Англией и Францией, стать членом мятежного экипажа и... научиться плавать.
Кэт Ховард3.7 Имоджен и Марин — сестры, их отношения сложны и запутаны, полны тайн и недосказанности, ужасных детских воспоминаний и надежд на будущее. Однажды обе они получают приглашение провести почти целый год в "Мелете" — кампусе для молодых представителей творческих профессий. Марин — балерина, ее танец покорял сердца зрителей, когда она была еще школьницей. Имоджен — начинающая писательница, которая с детства пишет сказки и хочет рассказать правду о том, как им с сестрой жилось в доме матери. Но сестры не подозревают, что "Мелета" и есть тот таинственный край, где сказка встречается с реальностью, и хэппи-энд может обернуться кошмаром. Сестрам и их возлюбленным, друзьям и недругам, наставникам и противникам предстоит немало испытаний. Они должны будут встретиться с непостижимыми существами и ответить самим себе на множество неудобных вопросов. Имоджен и Марин наконец узнают, что кроется за словами "Они жили долго и счастливо", которыми обычно заканчиваются сказки…
Рошани Чокши3.9 Майя проклята звездами. Гороскоп предрекает ей, что тот, кого она полюбит, свяжет девушку со смертью и разрушением. Но и без того жизнь Майи нельзя назвать похожей на сказку. Она — дочь раджи, обреченная жить в золотой клетке гарема и терпеть насмешки многочисленных обитательниц дворца. Когда в день выбора женихов Майя подносит к губам яд, ее спасает таинственный незнакомец. Отправившись с ним девушка, попадает в мир, о котором даже не могла грезить. Ночной базар, где небо расколото надвое и где торгуют желаниями. Дворец со стеклянным садом, деревом воспоминаний и потайными дверями. Гобелен, сотканный из лунного света и людских судеб. Но кто на самом деле этот незнакомец, которому подвластна столь сильная магия? Майя чувствует, что попала в ловушку. Сможет ли смертная девушка, оказавшаяся в Иномирье, разгадать его секреты и найти собственную судьбу, потерявшуюся во множестве реинкарнаций?
