Ucelený soubor povídek, jejichž spojníkem je příslušnost k některému z punkových podžánrů fantastiky. Na své si určitě přijde nejen milovník kyberpunku, ale také ten, kdo má rád dráždivý.... Autor: Antonín Kudláč
With over 60 titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies and big film tie-ins, the 'Penguin Active Reading' series will make learning the English language a pleasurable and rewarding activity.
With over 60 titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies and big film tie-ins, the 'Penguin Active Reading' series will make learning the English language a pleasurable and rewarding activity.
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, musters 13 tales by such top brass of this popular subgenre as Orson Scott Card, David Drake, George R.R. Martin, Arthur C. Clarke and editor Turtledove, who provides an introduction. SF military addicts won't need a direct order to seize a copy of this one.
Today a small group of men are exploring landscape stranger than tie surface of the moon and eccountering creatures more startling than the monster of science fiction. They are the aquanauts whose achievments are revolutionizing the scene of oceanography. Autor : Gardner Soule
Fantastické predstavy a názory, ktoré nám v súčasnosti astrofyzici predkladajú, často vnímame ako science fiction. Ide však o fakty a neodškriepiteľné skutočnosti. Autor: Johannes Von Buttlar
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
This famous novel about a respectable doctor with a double life marks a milestone in modern horror fiction. The book includes a history of horror stories, and looks at the medical profession in the 19th century.
Contemporary / British EnglishA man fell from a very tall building. Why didn’t he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old man’s ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in these strange stories.
Vtipně pojatá science fiction je inspirována havarijním letem Apolla k Měsíci v roce 1970. Autor přejal z tohoto letu základní data a informace, které rozvinul zdánlivě správně historicky, ve skutečnosti však zcela vymyšleným způsobem...... Autor: Pavel Toufar
Classic / British EnglishThe War of the Worlds is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. But when strange creatures climb out and start killing, nobody is safe.
Zámok Otranto a Vatherk sú dve klasické ukážky - i keď námetom a spracovaním veľmi rozdielne - anglického gotického, či lepšie, hrôzostrašného románu z 18. storočia. Gotický román je predchodcom romanticko-dobrodružnej literatúry i dnešných horrorov a science fiction. Autor: H. Walpole, W. Beckford
Táto kniha prináša niekoľko poviedok, ktoré patria k tomu najlepšiemu, čo sovietska science - fiction vytvorila. Je tu prenikanie do kozmu, večne vzrušujúci problém: sú vo vesmíre inteligentné bytosti nám podobné? Sú tu prevratné vynálezy - vyplývajúce tak z rozvoja fyziky a chémie, ako aj z využitia skrytých rezerv ľudského organizmu? Autor: Kol.autorov
Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?
Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?
Knížka, kterou držíte v ruce, je zcela zvláštní: vypráví o budoucnosti některých oblastí vědy a techniky, ale nebyla napsána autory science-fiction, nýbrž osobami, které se sice v té či oné formě vědou zabývají, nikoli však budoucností lidského poznání. Všichni se však shodneme alespoň v tom, že budoucnost začína dnes a že tedy... Autor: RNDr. Jiří Mrázek