For Dorthy Yoshida - abused earthborn Talent and prime player in the secret history of the galaxy - the seeds of destiny were sown a million years in the past...when a giant sun exploded and vast civilizations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. Or perhaps i...
Les romans de McAuley sont toujours assez indescriptibles. Celui-ci, toutefois, est assez clair.Enfin, assez clair, assz clair, faut voir ...Donc, ce roman se situe dans un futur proche, mais indéterminé. Le climat s'est suffisamment réchauffé pour faire de Londres une capitale au climat tropical...
America, 1984 - not our version of America, but an America that calls itself the Real. For ten years, in the name of democracy, the Real has been waging clandestine wars and fomenting revolution. But the human and political costs have proven too high, and new President Jimmy Carter has called an ...
On the eve of the Medici Pope's visit, an assassin has struck down an assistant to the immortal Raphael. It is a crime that draws a young artist named Pasquale and the investigative reporter Niccolo Macchiaveglia into the deepest shadows of their gray city--where there are fouler deaths to follow...
Its highly elliptical orbit was not only carrying it inside the orbit of Neptune; it was also about as close to Uranus as it would ever get - currently, the ice giant and the dwarf planet were separated by less than two billion kilometres. As far as the Free Outers were concerned, there would nev...
I had a hundred questions to ask, but the one at the forefront of my mind was how she had found out about the connection with the Billion Blossoms. ‘That’s easy,’ Prem said. ‘They found me. Or rather, they contacted Lathi.’ ‘I don’t think I understand,’ I said. ‘I do,’ the Horse told Prem. ‘The B...
The Switch ‘I had a time of it, tracking you down,’ Brandon Wiley told Tony. ‘Anyone would think you don’t care about your old friends any more.’ ‘Right now, I am hoping to sell something,’ Tony said. ‘Well, maybe I can help you with that,’ Brandon said artlessly. ‘Are you going to finish those, ...