Peter Watts Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Exploring the profound implications of first contact, this book delves into how such an event—whether on Earth, in space, or on another planet—would reshape our understanding of technology, philosophy, and humanity itself. It examines the potential cognitive dissonance society might face upon discovering a new form of sentience on Earth, challenging existing beliefs and prompting a reevaluation of our place in the universe.

The collection features over 50 unpredictable essays and revenge fantasies from a Hugo Award-winning author and former marine biologist, presenting a unique voice characterized as a savage dystopian optimist. This intriguing perspective challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths while remaining irresistibly engaging, even when it might be unwise to do so.

"This--THIS--is the cutting edge of science fiction." --Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Sunday Ahzmundin is about to find out.

After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution.

It's the eve of the 22nd century and the beginning of the end. Humanity splinters into strange new forms with every heartbeat: hive-minds coalesce, rapture-stricken, speaking in tongues; soldiers forgo consciousness for combat efficiency; a nightmare human subspecies has been genetically resurrected; half the population has retreated into the ersatz security of a virtual environment called Heaven. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to reveal itself. Daniel Bruks has turned his back on it all, taking refuge in the Oregon desert. As an unaugmented, baseline human he's an irrelevance, a living fossil for whom extinction beckons. But he's about to find himself an unwilling pilgrim on a voyage to the heart of the solar system that will bring the fractured remnants of mankind to the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!... it puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade... It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It's off the scale... F**king awesome!' Richard Morgan. 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Asher.

Exploring the intersection of technology and human conviction, these edgy tales delve into the complexities of science and the unknown. The narratives blend beauty and danger, offering a mix of dark, satirical, and introspective themes that challenge perceptions of reality and alienation.

Set in a reimagined Manhattan, the narrative explores a city transformed by new leadership that challenges the status quo. As power dynamics shift, characters navigate the complexities of ambition, loyalty, and survival in a rapidly changing urban landscape. The story delves into the consequences of this new governance, highlighting themes of control, resistance, and the quest for identity amidst turmoil. Through a gripping plot and rich character development, the book paints a vivid picture of a metropolis at a crossroads.

NYC 2023. Terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city's myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city's systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. The battle is on against the lethal, armoured, bipedal war machines that stalk ravaged New York.

Manhattan má nové vládce. A Země rozhodně není jejich domovem… Vítej v New Yorku, synu. Vítej ve městě napadeném obludnými kříženci strojů a masa, ve městě bráněném soukromou armádou, vedle níž Zelené barety vypadají jako Armáda spásy, ve městě zpustošeném nákazou, požírající své oběti zaživa. Hodili tě do tohoto mlýnku na maso bez varování, bez přípravy a jakéhokoli vysvětlení. Celá tvá četa byla zlikvidována během okamžiku, kdy poprvé vkročila na bojiště. A chór hlasů šeptajících ve tvé hlavě říká, že vše nyní záleží jen na tobě. Jen ty sám můžeš vše zvrátit, kdybys jen věděl, co se vlastně stalo. Chceš pomoct. Opravdu chceš. Ale nejsou to jen vetřelci, kteří po tobě střílí. I tvůj vlastní druh tě loví jako zrádce – a tvá práce by byla mnohem jednodušší, kdybys neměl podezření, že to může být krutá pravda…

Canadian writer Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with the Hugo and Campbell Award finalist and Locus Award winning Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.

Vor zwei Generationen hat der Fluch eines sterbenden Aborigine-Kriegers die Einwandererfamilien Duffy und Macintosh auf tragische Weise miteinander verbunden. Nun ist Patrick Duffy, der einer heimlichen Liebe zwischen Fiona Macintosh und Michael Duffy entstammt, als Nachfolger im Firmenimperium der Macintoshs vorgesehen. Doch Fionas jetziger Ehemann, der skrupellose Granville White, will sich mit seiner Entmachtung nicht abfinden und spinnt Intrigen gegen seinen Stiefsohn (Verlagstext). - Dritter und letzter Teil der Australiensaga um zwei rivalisierende Einwandererfamilien zur Zeit der Kolonialkriege gegen die Ureinwohner. (Teil 1: Weit wie der Horizont; Teil 2: Wer dem Wind folgt)

In this hard-driving sequel to Watts's powerful debut, "Starfish", Lenie Clarke returns to kill the people who abused her--even if it means she's the death of everyone. This is a terrifying work of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive".

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?

Different stages in the Norwegian playwright's literary and philosophical development are represented in three dramas.

Passionate and powerful, the three plays collected together in this volume represent August Strindburge (1849-1912) at his best, 'The Father', 'Miss Julia', and the more mystical 'Easter.' In all three plays, Strindberg combines acute psychological analysis with total mastery of the power to create unforgettable dramas of human life and love.