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Seveneves
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform.
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
You think you know how the world works? Think again.
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Polostan
'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon,the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Leningrad by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB... Set against the turbulent decades of the early 20th century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
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The Diamond Age
The future is nano ... And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer.
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Termination Shock
‘Absorbing speculative fiction’ Guardian ‘Neal Stephenson has never been afraid of engaging with big ideas within genre forms, and Termination Shock might be his most visionary, and timely, book yet’ Chicago Review of Books ‘Brilliantly entertaining… at science fiction’s cutting edge’ SFX ‘Wonderfully human… ingenious and sometimes prophetic… Stephenson has become a totemic figure for 21st century scientific writers’ Daily Telegraph ‘Stephenson’s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved’ Sunday Times
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Fall or, Dodge in Hell
Praise for FALL OR, DODGE IN HELL: ‘It keeps you reading, it makes you think, and, by the end, it generates that sense of wonder that is the very lifeblood of science fiction’ Guardian ‘A staggering feat of imagination, intelligence and stamina… The result is a story that touches on society, technology, spirituality and even eschatology, a far-reaching attempt at a grand myth that is breathtaking in scope and ambition… a one-of-a-kind synthesis of daring and originality, unafraid to venture into wild and unmapped conceptual territory’ New York Times ‘One of the great novels of our time’ Wall Street Journal ‘Captivating … The passages set in the real world display all of Stephenson’s usual witty brilliance when it comes to technology and culture’ Washington Post ‘[Stephenson is a] speculative-fiction virtuoso… There are enough futuristic, envelope-pushing ideas here, especially related to AI and digital consciousness, to keep even nonfans and science buffs intrigued. Best-selling Stephenson is cutting-edge and his followers and all readers intrigued by shrewd speculative fiction will queue up’ Booklist Starred Review ‘An audacious epic’ Kirkus, Starred Review ‘There's no part of this book that doesn't chug and hum with that big-brain energy of near-future extrapolation that Stephenson's fans love him for… Stephenson's greatest strength as a writer has always been that he sees just a little bit further and a little bit clearer than the rest of us do’ NPR ‘Elegantly written’ SFX ‘A feat of mind-blowing adventure powered by deep existential questions’ Slate ‘Gripping … a fantasy-science-fiction adventure story that is closer to reality than you might think’ The Week
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The System Of The World
As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies?Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline.
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Quicksilver
Including a cast of characters such as Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, this book shows the ability to get inside a place and time; and more.
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present.
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Polostan
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB. Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
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Mongoliad 3. Kitap
Savas görmemis bir grup Kalkan Biraderleri acemisi, koskoca bir Mogol ordusuyla karsi karsiyadir. Tarikatin en iyilerinden olusan cetin bir grup ise o esnada Mogol Imparatorlugunun issiz bozkirlarinda yol tepmekte, ölülerini kanli topraga teslim edip yas tutarken bile dövüsebilecek kuvveti bulmaya calismaktadir. Savasci-kesisler hem Doguda hem de Batida son bir catisma icin kiliclarini bilemektedirler.Hiristiyanlik leminin kurtulmasi icin Hanlar Haninin öldürülmesi gerekmektedir.Avrupanin istilaci Mogollara ve onlarin acimasiz Hanlarina verdikleri tarihi savasin sürükleyici bir yorumu olan Mongoliad S3. Kitap, ilk iki kitapta karsilastigimiz destansi maceralari kanli ve heyecan verici bir sona kavusturuyor.
€ 16,99