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...

The Cyberiad - an amusing mix of traditional fairy tales and science fiction literature with constructors in the role of sorcerers and miracles that are only an incredibly developed engineering skill - is a kind of warning against the lack of moderation, ethics and excessive faith in the omnipotence of engineering.

The hero of The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, like Gulliver, communes with various extraterrestrial beings. During his numerous interplanetary journeys, the traveler has met various alien civilizations, created by both sentient beings and advanced robots.

Seit Jahrhunderten muss sich die Menschheit gegen die fremdartigen Honta verteidigen, ohne zu wissen, warum sie immer wieder angreifen. Im Jahr 3233 überfällt der Feind Harkonia, einen über 8000 Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernten Kolonialplaneten. Zu den wenigen Überlebenden zählt der siebenjährige Cameron, der durch den Angriff seine Mutter verliert. Adoptiert von einem Kommandanten der...