Jerry Pournelle Ordre des livres

In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance . But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just entered Todos Santos. . . .

Set in 1977, the narrative explores the early dreams and ambitions of future tech moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos against the backdrop of a pivotal time in space exploration. With the space shuttle's launch on the horizon and the Apollo program in the past, a quirky aerospace engineer and professor poses critical questions about humanity's return to space and its purpose beyond Earth. The book delves into the vision and challenges of space travel during a transformative era in aerospace history.

Rick Galloway never anticipated volunteering to fight Cubans in Angola would lead to an extraordinary adventure. Stranded on the planet Tran after being abandoned by his CIA superiors, he finds himself raising drugs for an alien cartel within a civilization run by enslaved humans. Over 13 years, Rick has navigated mutinies, civil wars, and battles against various factions, all while grappling with the devastating effects of unchecked climate change. Through love and loss, he has risen to nobility, yet remains acutely aware that his alien employers may obliterate humanity when their agenda is fulfilled. Despite his efforts to improve life for the inhabitants of Tran, Rick is weary and disillusioned. Just when he thinks he has managed to maintain a fragile balance, new Starmen arrive with perilous gifts and advanced weaponry, challenging everything he believed about his mission. As the situation escalates, Rick is thrust into a pivotal role, with everyone looking to him for solutions. The stakes have never been higher, and the weight of expectation threatens to overwhelm him.

"An unexpected sequel from the universe of The mote in God's eye and The gripping hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle"--Cover

The people of Tep's Town are desperate. Monstrous invaders have emerged from the desert, and people are being slaughtered. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep's Town itself will die. The fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the town's residents unprotected for the first time in its history - and they now face an army of fearsome birds with blades for wings, consumed by an inexorable lust for blood. Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel far beyond the walls of their home to discover the origin of these terror birds. They enter a world where magic is still strong - and someone or something has been waiting to destroy them ...

Nach dem Tode von Chuut-Riit (vgl. NEANDERTAL Bastei-Lübbe-Band 24 251) verstricken sich die Kzinti in Machtkämpfe. Richtig kompliziert wird die Lage allerdings erst, als die Partisanen in einem Asteroiden ein hochinteressantes Artefakt finden: ein Slaver-Schiff, hundert-tausende von Jahren alt. An Bord: ein lebender Slaver! Und damit sind der Entdeckungen nicht genug. Robert Saxtorph bricht nach dem Markham-Desaster (vgl. KATZENHAUS, Bastei-Lübbe-Band 24 244) zu einer gefährlichen Mission auf. Die Suche gilt einem bedeutenden Wissenschaftler, der von den Kzinti entführt wurde. Dabei stößt er auf ein Raumschiff der Tnuctipun, jener Spezies, die vor langer Zeit die Slaver und in der Folge beinahe alles Leben in der Galaxis vernichteten. An Bord: die mächtigste Waffe des Bekannten Weltraums.

Válku proti lidskému impériu vedl národ z planety Sauron, geneticky vyšlechtěný v dokonalé vojáky. Když boje skončily, byl Sauron naprosto mrtvý, rozbombardovaný z kosmu do té míry, že se jeho kontinenty zhroutily do vroucího jádra. Avšak jedna loď plná Vojáků unikla zničení domovského světa a vypravila se hledat nové útočiště. Od doby, kdy tyto zbytky Sauronců uprchly v tajnosti na Haven uplynulo tři sta let. Jeho původní lidští obyvatelé, zdevastovaní nukleárními zbraněmi jsou bezmocní proti útokům geneticky vyprojektovaných démonů, chodících jako lidé, ale bojujících jako bitevní počítače. Na Havenu však stále hlasitěji zaznívá nová výzva - hlas nelítostné vzpory proti silám zuřivého Kyborga Bitevního mistra. Nastává čas šílenství - a kruté krevní msty! J.Pournelle, J. Tarr a S.Shwartz

Negramotní absolventi. Učitelé v roli "fackovacích panáků". Lidé s předem nalinkovanou budoucností. To vše jsou odvrácené stránky do extrému dovedeného práva na ochranu osobnosti a přebujelého sociálního systému. Šestnáctiletý Rick Luban měl ale smůlu. Nemohl tušit, že oběť jeho výtržnictví není obyčejný začínající učitel, ale příbuzný vlivné kongresmanky. Náhle se stal ze dne na den vyděděncem a nezbývá mu nic jiného, nežli boj o holý život. Poslední Rickova naděje leží v pásmu asteroidů, ale šance jsou mizivé...

Locklear befindet sich noch immer auf dem rätselhaften Planeten Zoo. Was erwartet ihn in dem neuen Gehege? Findet er dort Menschen, und wer hat das Sammelsurium unterschiedlicher Lebensräume angelegt? Wunderland ist die einzige Kolonie der Menschen, die von den Kzinti besetzt wurde. Ihr Gouverneur ist Chuut-Riit, eine Schlüsselfigur im ersten Kzin-Krieg. Wenn die Menschen Wunderland zurückerobern wollen, müssen sie Chuut-Riit beseitigen. Keine leichte Aufgabe, denn Chuut-Riit ist eine hochintelligente Raubkatze ...

There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What Prokeet, the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ... They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. Prokeet possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, but his insatiable curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. And when he felt Prokeet enter him, it was just the start of an epic journey that would turn him into a legend. The writers of classics such as LUCIFER'S HAMMER, FOOTFALL and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE have created a masterly tale of magic, gods, wizards and heroes that ranks among the very best in the genre. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk