Toren Smith Livres

Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down. From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes The Ghost in the Shell, the breakthrough manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. An epic dystopian tale of politics, technology, and metaphysics, The Ghost in the Shell has been hailed worldwide as an unparalleled visionary work of graphic fiction. And now it’s ready to dazzle the imagination in its second millennium.

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime, and 3WA operatives Kei and Yuri -- the Lovely Angels -- are their best, famous for always getting their man. Unfortunately, they also have a reputation for catastrophe as in the execution of their duties they accidentally level cities, continents, and even planets. They're always cleared of responsibility, but they've earned a new nickname -- The Dirty Pair. Now they have an assignment on the satellite Kalevela -- to stop industrial terrorists from snagging a powerful bomb. At stake is the satellite's survival. Everything should be a breeze -- if they can just get over their streak of bad luck....

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime. 3WA's best operatives, Kei and Yuri - the Lovely Angels - also have a reputation for causing catastrophe in the execution of their duties, and have earned a new nickname: the Dirty Pair.

Functional simplicity, structural complexity: the best life for all. That's the maxim of Olympus, the utopian city that sprung from the ashes of World War III. But Deunan and Bri, a young woman and her cyborg companion just entering the rose-tinted society, find that so long as there are different kinds of people there will be differences among them. Such is the story of Appleseed, the masterwork of manga storyteller Masamune Shirow. Beautiful art and a complex and fully realized future world rank this title among the best comics available.

World War III is over, and nomad soldier Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos struggle to survive in the abandoned cities and demilitarized zones of the post-war wasteland, the "Badside." Matters appear on the upswing, however, when they are found and brought to Olympus, an urban utopia and centerpiece for the reconstruction of civilization. Duenan and Bri join the Olympus police, a force that seems hardly necessary in such a paradise. But, like in most pretty pictures, perfection is an illusion, and Olympus's peaceful facade hides a dark secret, a violent struggle between human and cyborg that could once again plunge the world into war...and genocide.

Přichází z budoucnosti, aby zabil jediného člověka, který může zachránit lidskou rasu. Je nezničitelný a neskutečně populární. Zkáza se přesune na nová místa: do Ruska, kde stále zuří studená válka mezi stroji, do arizonské pouště, kde se terminátor setká s detektivem, satanistickým gangem a zlatokopem, do New Yorku na oslavu nového roku, a do porodnice, kde Sarah Connorová přivádí na svět spasitele lidstva. První Terminátor se objevil v roce 1990 a do roku 2000 se pustil do křížku nejen se Sarah Connorovou, ale také s RoboCopem, Supermanem, Vetřelci a Predátorem. Druhá kniha nabízí delší příběhy, které rozvíjejí klasickou filmovou ságu a mapují svět před i po katastrofě. Skynet hledá nové způsoby, jak vyhladit zbytek lidské populace, a nebezpečí číhá na každém kroku. Příběhy napsali jak zkušený vypravěč James Robinson, tak i Alan Grant. Mezi kreslíři se objevují legendární Guy Davis a Steve Pugh, zatímco Jackson Guice přináší perfekcionisticky čistou linku. Terminátoři nepotřebují spát, jídlo ani vodu. Jsou to stroje, vyslané z budoucnosti, aby zlikvidovali všechny, kteří by jim mohli zabránit v ovládnutí světa. Válka o budoucnost začíná už dnes.