'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost impudent book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new - honest, accurate - description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and TV-screen Russia, power and people... Dmitry Glukhovsky takes up the most important, most sensitive topics of our life today and speaks about them in the tone in which political...

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him...

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor- of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's...

ar, only a small part of the former Russia remained, which calls itself Moscow empire. Its eastern borders pass just a few hundred kilometers from the capital, along the Volga - poisoned, turned into an insurmountable barrier. Since the Disintegration, no one has come to Muscovy because of the Volga. The thousand-year-old Moscow itself stands unshakable, reliably protected from all sides by...

'The Hour of the Bull' is a novel in which a fascinating adventure story harmoniously combines with the unique philosophical and ethical concept of the author, who innovatively rethought the dystopian genre. The story of the expedition of earthlings of the distant future to the planet Tormans, inhabited by the descendants of people who fled the Earth long ago, where as a result a society was...

Два романа английского писателя-фантаста Герберта Уэллса, «Человек-невидимка» и «Война миров», впервые увидевшие свет практически одновременно, в 1897 году, стали своего рода визитной карточкой автора и классикой «литературы предупреждения». История Гриффина – гениального ученого, осуществившего поразительный эксперимент, который навсегда отделил его от обыкновенных людей непереходимой стеной...

Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic...

'It's hard to be a god.' Perhaps the most famous of the works of the Strugatsky brothers. One of the most famous stories of Russian fiction. A fascinating, full of drama story of the life, love and adventures of 'Don Rumata' from the kingdom of Arkanar on a distant planet - a knight with two swords, under whose name hides a resident from the planet Earth of the XXII century Anton.

‘A fascinating, gripping story of the confrontation between the fearless young meteorologist Klimenko and the half-mad, brilliant adventurer Bailey, who has learned to liquefy air from the atmosphere and sell the resulting balls of air gas hydrate. Bailey's criminal activity leads to radical climate change. The Earth begins to lose its atmosphere. How can we stop the ‘air seller’ before he...

Nowa edycja popularnej książki Stanisława Lema, którą autor uważa za swój prywatny wkład w poetykę literatury science fiction. Nikt bowiem nie skrzyżował w taki sposób przyszłościowej fantastyki z baśnią i filozoficzną powiastką, nikt nie sporządził takiego stopu materii „naukowo-technicznej” z baśniowym sztafażem przedstawionego świata. Cyberiada - zabawny melanż tradycyjnej baśni i...