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Кен Маклауд - автор 11 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Ночные проповеди, Зов автострады, Newton's Wake. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Шотландия, недалекое будущее. После войн на Ближнем Востоке, битвы при Армагеддоне и Потопа, атомной бомбардировки Иерусалима и Лос-Анджелеса пришла пора Великого Отчуждения. Первое Просвещение отделило церковь от государства. Второе Просвещение отделило религию от политики. В этом мире функционируют два космических лифта, на орбите добывают энергию, а боевые роботы с высокоразвитым искусственным ...
В этой повести автор демонстрирует мрачный, загубленный мир будущего, в котором удивительным образом до сих пор живет надежда; семена этой надежды беспорядочно разбросаны и прорастают в самых неожиданных местах.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings-a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Sk...
Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey. Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descen...
Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child? A plausible and original novel with sinister ...
Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the competing mining corporations of Earth. But sent over hundreds of light-years, commands are late to arrive and often hard to enforce. The machines must make their own decisions, and make them stick. With this new found autonomy come new questions about their masters. The robots w...
There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: its original inspiration ca...
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE TRUTH? Ball lightning. Weather balloons. Secret military aircraft. Ryan knows all the justifications for UFO sightings. But when something falls out of the sky on the hills near his small Scottish town, he finds his cynicism can't identify or explain the phenomenon. And in a future where nothing is a secret, where everything is recorded on CCTV or reported online, wh...
Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out. In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peac...
В далеком будущем, когда человечество покорило множество звезд, героиня решается на открытие торгового предприятия для путешественников. А консультирует ее в этом с виду безобидном предприятии электронная копия матери.
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