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Захватывающее исследование сознания человека с аутизмом, который сталкивается со сложными и глубокими вопросами о сути человечности отчуждением в мире-утопии.

Лауреат премии «Небьюла» 2004 г.

Финалист премии Артура Ч. Кларка 2003 г.

Номинация на премию «Локус» 2004 г.

Номинация на премию Геффена 2005 г. (Израиль).

Номинация на Большую премию Воображения 2007 г. (Франция).

Номинация на приз Курда Лассвица 2008 г. (Германия).

Недалекое будущее. Медицина продвинулась настолько, что врачи могут устранять любые генетические дефекты и наследственные болезни сразу при рождении человека. Но, к сожалению, есть целое поколение людей, которые появились до возникновения этой терапии. Общество учит их ладить со всем здоровым миром с помощью различных программ, но сделать их нормальными не может. До определенного момента.

Лу Аррендейл – представитель этого потерянного поколения. Он ведет спокойную и независимую жизнь, не считая ежегодных визитов к психологу, имеет стабильную работу в фармацевтической компании, научился смотреть собеседнику в глаза, умеет учитывать вежливые условности в разговорах и делает все возможное, чтобы быть как можно более нормальным и не привлекать к себе внимания. Но теперь его спокойная жизнь оказывается под угрозой. Появляется новое экспериментальное лечение, позволяющее излечить взрослого человека от заболеваний аутистического спектра. После него Лу станет таким же, как и все вокруг. Но Лу задается вопросами – если он избавится от аутизма, останется ли самим собой? Будет ли по-прежнему любить классическую музыку? Видеть в мире те же цвета и узоры, оттенки и тона, недоступные другим? И, самое главное, будет ли он так же любить Марджори, девушку, которая, вероятно, никогда не ответит ему взаимностью, пока он болен?

Лу предстоит решить, стоит ли ему соглашаться на операцию, которая может полностью изменить его мировоззрение… И саму его сущность.

«Красивая и трогательная история… Писательница – мать подростка, страдающего аутизмом, и ее любовь к нему раскрывается в истории Лу. Он оказывает глубокое и неизгладимое влияние на читателя, показывая ему иной взгляд на мир». –

«Время от времени попадается книга, которая одновременно является важным литературным достижением и полностью захватывает читателя – книга с провокационными идеями и не менее захватывающим сюжетом. Этот роман – именно такой». –

«Великолепно и талантливо… Эта книга действительно изменяет мировоззрение читателя». –

«Увлекательное путешествие по темным граням подсознания, которое помогает понять самого себя». –

«Удивительное путешествие, которое погружает нас в сознание аутиста, оказавшегося перед страшным выбором: стать нормальным или остаться пришельцем на собственной планете». –

Более полувека назад Джек Вэнс создал удивительный, таинственный мир Умирающей Земли, покоривший читателей и оказавший огромное влияние на творчество самых ярких современных писателей-фантастов. И теперь, спустя годы, мэтр предоставляет нам уникальную возможность вернуться в знакомые декорации к полюбившимся героям. Джек Вэнс распахнул двери придуманного им мира перед другими авторами, позволив написать собственные оригинальные произведения. Черпая вдохновение в его работах, двадцать два именитых писателя дали волю своей фантазии и подарили персонажам Вэнса новую жизнь, по-прежнему полную захватывающих приключений.

Лауреаты многочисленных премий Джордж Р. Р. Мартин и Гарднер Дозуа собрали под одной обложкой произведения Нила Геймана, Дэна Симмонса, Элизабет Мун, Танит Ли, Тэда Уильямса, Кейдж Бейкер, Роберта Сильверберга, Глена Кука, Уолтера Йона Уильямса, Люциуса Шепарда и многих других прославленных авторов, сделав потрясающий подарок всем поклонникам фантастики.

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero’s welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance. Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet—a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group’s survival but her entire home planet.

Over the past two decades, few authors have garnered the critical acclaim and fan following of Elizabeth Moon, Nebula Award-winning author of The Speed of Dark, The Deed of Paksenarrion, and Remnant Population. Moon Flights, the definitive Elizabeth Moon short story collection, represents the highlights of an impressive career. Gathering together fifteen tales of fantasy, alternative history, and science fiction, Moon Flights features an original story, “Say Cheese,” set in the Vatta’s War cosmology, and an all-new introduction by Anne McCaffrey, legendary creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series. Ranging from humorous high fantasy tales of “The Ladies’ Aid & Armor Society” to gritty, realistic chronicles of far-flung militaristic space opera, former marine Elizabeth Moon’s storytelling mastery and eye for painstaking detail is evidenced in each of the tales contained herein. When honor, politics, and personal relationships clash against backdrops of explosive battles and larger-than-life action, the result is the breathtaking and astounding fiction found in Moon Flights.

During the war, Gird took in a refugee who soon became known as “Gird’s luap” ( being the word for assistant, or an army officer who was not in the chain of command.) Luap, as he was finally called, was in fact the bastard son of a former king. Though he had been cast aside when his father sired a legitimate heir, Luap believed that he had inherited the ability to rule... if not his father’s kingdom, then one of his own, somewhere. But his essential dishonesty, his inability to face the truth about himself, doomed him and his followers, and set the Fellowship of Gird on a path very different from that Gird would have chosen.

Paksenarrion could never have fulfilled her destiny had it not been for one who came before. Gird, the peasant, the armsman, the Liberator who taught his people that they could fight—and win—against oppression. This is his story, the first of two prequels to the “Deed of Paksenarrion” trilogy.

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space.

Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs; they want to ensure that nothing interferes with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been given bad drugs on purpose. Esmay Suiza’s family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position. Barin Serrano’s family fears that his marriage to a Landbride of Altiplano will damage his career and their reputation.

Fear begets violent reactions—from foreign governments, from great Families determined to maintain or increase their power, from internal rivalries in the Fleet—and nothing escapes the resultant bloodbath unscathed. As Esmay and Barin struggle to reconcile their families, others have more cosmic struggles to win.

Esmay, a gifted Fleet officer, and Brun, daughter of the Speaker of the Grand Council, have much in common, but their enmity is the talk of the base. When Brun falls into the hands of a fanatical religious militia group, Esmay finds herself in disgrace, suspected of conniving in the abduction.

When Esmay Suiza found herself in the middle of a space battle, the senior surviving officer, she had no choice but to take command and win. She didn’t want to be a hero, but Once A Hero....

Booted from the Fleet on trumped up charges after saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining the deluxe interstellar yacht . Now, Heris has been offered a chance at vindication and reinstatement in the Navy. All she has to do is save the galaxy from an interstellar mafia gone berserk.

Heris Serrano—formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service—must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady’s space yacht... a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia’s only apparent interest is horses—she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle. But events conspire to make it far more than a fox hunt.

Paksenarrion—Paks for short—was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father’s orders and married the pig farmer down the road. Better a soldier’s life than a pig farmer’s wife, and so, though she knew that she could never go home again, Paks ran away to be a soldier. And so began an adventure destined to transform a simple Sheepfarmer’s Daughter into a hero fit to be chosen by the gods.

Once a sheepfarmer’s daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan’s Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit.

Now, though, Paks feels spurred to a solitary destiny. Against all odds she is accepted as a paladin-candidate by the fellowship of Gird. Years of study will follow, for a paladin must be versed in diplomacy and magic as well as the fighting arts. But before she is fully trained, Paks is called on her first mission: to seek out the fabled stronghold of Luap far to the west. The way is long, the dangers many—and not even the Marshal-General of Gird can say whether glory or ruin awaits.

Роман «Поколение войнов» — последняя часть трилогии «Космические пираты». Нити межпланетного заговора стягиваются в одни клубок. Флот враждебной расы инопланетян собирается захватить Федерацию Обитаемых Планет. Агенты космических пиратов проникли в Центр. Вызов заговорщикам бросает экипаж крейсера Сассинак.

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the Nebula Award–winning author of Cold Welcome, admiral Kylara Vatta is back—with a vengeance. Ky beats sabotage, betrayal, and the unforgiving elements to lead a ragtag group of crash survivors to safety on a remote arctic island. And she cheats death after uncovering secrets someone is hell-bent on protecting. But the worst is far from over when Ky discovers the headquarters of a vast conspiracy against her family and the heart of the planet’s government itself. With their base of operations breached, the plotters have no choice but to gamble everything on an audacious throw of the dice. Even still, the odds are stacked against Ky. When her official report on the crash and its aftermath goes missing—along with the men and women she rescued—Ky realizes that her mysterious enemies are more powerful and dangerous than she imagined. Now, targeted by faceless assassins, Ky and her family—along with her fiancé, Rafe—must battle to reclaim the upper hand and unmask the lethal cabal closing in on them with murderous intent.