Sci Fi

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

Entre la vida i la mort hi ha una biblioteca, i dins d'aquesta biblioteca, les prestatgeries s'estenen fins a l'infinit. Cada llibre ofereix l'oportunitat de provar una altra vida que podries haver viscut. De veure com haurien estat les coses si haguessis pres altres decisions... Hauries fet res diferent si haguessis tingut l'oportunitat de desfer els teus penediments? Una novel·la sobre totes les decisions que conformen una vida ben viscuda. En algun lloc més enllà dels confins de l'univers hi ha una biblioteca que conté un nombre infinit de llibres, cadascun dels quals és la història d'una altra realitat. Un explica la història de la teva vida tal com és, juntament amb un altre llibre sobre l'altra vida que podries haver viscut si haguessis pres una decisió diferent en qualsevol moment de la teva vida. Tot i que tots ens preguntem com podrien haver estat les nostres vides, què passaria si tinguessis l'oportunitat d'anar a la biblioteca i veure-ho per tu mateix? Alguna d'aquestes altres vides seria realment millor? La Nora Seed es troba davant d'aquesta decisió. Davant la possibilitat de canviar la seva vida per una de nova, seguir una carrera diferent, desfer antigues ruptures, fer realitat els seus somnis de convertir-se en glaciòloga; ha de cercar dins d'ella mateixa mentre viatja per la Biblioteca de la Mitjanit per decidir què és realment gratificant a la vida i què fa que valgui la pena viure-la.

لقد جاء عام 1984 ومضى، لكن رؤية جورج أورويل النبوئية الكابوسية التي صاغها عام 1949 للعالم الذي كنا نصير إليه تبدو اليوم أكثر راهنية من أي وقت مضى. لا تزال «1984» الكلاسيكية الحديثة العظيمة في أدب «اليوتوبيا السلبية» — رواية أصيلة على نحو مدهش ومقلقة، تخلق عالماً خيالياً مقنعاً تماماً، من الجملة الأولى إلى الكلمات الأربع الأخيرة. ولا يستطيع أحد إنكار سطوة الرواية على مخيلات أجيال كاملة، أو قوة تحذيراتها — وهي قوة يبدو أنها تزداد، لا تضعف، مع مرور الزمن.

Изминаха три години, откакто Роуън и Ситра изчезнаха; откакто Косача Годард завзе властта; откакто Гръмовержецът се затвори за всички освен за Грейсън Толивър. В този спиращ дъха завършек на трилогията „Дъгата на Косата“ от Нийл Шустърман, автор бестселъри на „Ню Йорк Таймс“, конституциите са подложени на изпитание, а стари приятели са върнати от мъртвите.

Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

A damaged young man meets an enigmatic waitress in a Tokyo café, and they embark on a journey that will change everything ... an emotive speculative literary novel set in a near-future Japan It's our world, but decades into the future ... an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War, but all conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be... Except for seventeen-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change for him when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night. A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia... But Neotnia hides a secret of her own – a secret that will turn John's unhappy life upside down. A secret that will take them from the neon streets of Tokyo to Hiroshima's tragic past to the snowy mountains of Nagano. A secret that reveals that this world is anything ordinary – and it's about to change forever...