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Immaginate un futuro alla Bladerunner, non molto lontano dal nostro presente, un mondo di cupa delinquenza e di elevata tecnologia, di droghe e computer, di traffico nero di organi umani, di trapianti e di sfrenata ricchezza, di popolosi quartieri dove si aggira il più fetido sottobosco umano, un mondo di cyborg e di tetre strade notturne, di fatiscenti metropoli illuminate da un cielo grigiastro per le colorate luci al neon e gli ologrammi dei locali malfamati. In questo mondo si muove Case, che un tempo era stato il miglior «cow boy» d'interfaccia, un uomo che con la mente riusciva a entrare e muoversi nell'incredibile mondo delle matrici dei computer, nel cosiddetto «cyberspace», dove la sua essenza disincarnata frugava nelle banche-dati delle ricchissime corporazioni che dominavano la Terra e rubava le informazioni richieste dai suoi mandanti. Ma poi Case aveva commesso il classico errore, aveva cercato di rubare anche ai suoi mandanti, di tener per sè parte del bottino. E, scoperto, era stato vittima di un destino cui avrebbe preferito la morte: il suo sistema nervoso era stato danneggiato in maniera tale che non avrebbe più potuto entrare nel misterioso e bellissimo mondo del «cyberspace». Ma forse Case aveva ancora un'altra possibilità, e stava soltanto a lui sfruttarla a dovere. Un romanzo magnifico e avvincente, che unisce in maniera splendida un'accurata estrapolazione sociale e tecnologica a una incredibile serie di personaggi dipinti con maestria e con uno stile vivido e immediato, da un nuovo scrittore che ha già conquistato il pubblico d'oltreoceano e si avvia a diventare uno dei nuovi «Grandi» della fantascienza mondiale.

'What [Wilson] Harris is doing is to extend the boundaries of our very conception of fiction.' Robert Nye.

First published in 1982, is offered to readers as Wilson Harris's analysis and interpretation of the 'automatic writing' of 'Mary Stella Holiday': an assumed name for the secretary and patient of the late Father Joseph Marsden.

'Mary suffered from a physical and nervous as makes clear. Through Marsden — the medical care he arranged for her and the sessions he provided in Angel Inn which gave scope to her 'automatic talents' — that illness became a catalyst of compassion through which she penetrated layers of social and psychical deprivation to create a remarkable fictional life for 'Stella' (apart from 'Mary') in order to unravel the thread that runs through a diversity of association in past and present 'fictional lives.'' (From Harris's introductory 'Note.')

Tres de los más dotados escritores jóvenes de ciencia-ficción -ganadores de Hugos, Nebulas y National Book Award, los Premios Literarios más célebres de la especialidad- coinciden en presentarnos visiones sorprendentes del futuro de la humanidad en la Tierra y en el Espacio.
Paralelamente, reviven fragmentos del pasado, convertidos en imágenes míticas, y se plantean las eternas cuestiones sobre el objetivo y propósito biológico. La presentación de este conjunto de obras capitales corre a cargo de Robert Silverberg, ganador cinco veces del Hugo y otras tantas del Nebula, y sin duda, el escritor del género que más premios haya recibido a lo largo de una carrera dilatada y fecunda. Especial interés tiene, dentro de las historias incluidas en este volumen, La Nueva Atlántida, de Ursula K. Le Guin, que presenta un brave, new, new world a la manera huxleyana, un mundo en el que la tiranía burocrática se muestra cada vez más incapaz de satisfacer las necesidades de una población disgregada íntimamente por la búsqueda ansiosa del placer.

Oakley Hall's legendary revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.

"Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who. . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with — the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power — the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." — Thomas Pynchon

Während in Canrif Frieden einkehrt und die Bolg das Land zu neuer Blüte führen, stoßen die drei Helden Rhapsody, Achmed und Grunthor in den Gewölben der Festungsstadt auf ein kostbares Relikt: den Krallendolch der gefürchteten Drachin Elynsynos. Der Legende nach hüten Drachen ihre Schätze und lassen ihren Zorn auf all diejenigen niederfahren, die sie bestehlen. Rhapsody beschließt, sich umgehend auf die Suche nach Elynsynos zu begeben, um ihr den Dolch zurückzugeben. Der stets in einen Mantel aus Nebel gehüllte und undurchschaubare Ashe bietet sich als ihr Führer an. Rhapsody zieht mit ihm nach Westen, zur Höhle der mächtigen Drachin, obwohl ihre Freunde noch immer einen Dämon in ihrer Nähe vermuten und ihr Verdacht auf Ashe fällt. Und während Achmed und der Riese Grunthor weiter in das Höhlensystem in Canrif vordringen und auf ein lange gehütetes Geheimnis stoßen, erfährt Rhapsody am Ende ihrer Reise von ihrer Bestimmung. Gemeinsam müssen sich die drei Gefährten dem Feuerdämon F’dor stellen, der aufs Neue alles daran setzt, die Welt für immer zu vernichten. Ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod beginnt.

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Az emberek galaktikus birodalmát egyszerre három irányból éri támadás. A külső bolygókat megmérgezik a rákos sejtekként burjánzó zergek, megjelennek a förtelmes lényeket – és velük együtt a bolygókat is – szétperzselő protossok, és a zűzavart kihasználva előtérbe tolakszanak a rendszer belső ellenségei.
Danny Liberty újságíróként kerül a frontvonalba, de nem marad egyszerű szemlélő, hanem a harcok aktív részesévé válik. A lázadókhoz csatlakozva, turbópáncélba bújva irtja a zergeket és a régi rendszerhez hű űrgárdistákat, s közben megfogalmazza kiáltványát, mellyel összefogásra buzdítja a széthúzó emberiséget.
Alakváltó lidércharcosok, a legfejlettebb űrtechnika, félelmetes fegyverek, és taktika, stratégia… A regény a méltán nagy sikerű PC-s játék világában játszódó epikus történet első része.