Автор - Robert Sawyer
Rollback
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
Canadian author Robert Sawyer once again presents likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas in this smoothly readable near-future SF novel. Astronomer Sarah Halifax, who translated the first message from aliens and helped prepare humanity’s response, is 87 when the second, encrypted message arrives 38 years later. To aid the decoding, a tycoon buys rejuvenation treatment for Sarah and Don, her husband of 60 years; however, only Don becomes young again. While coping with the physical indignities of old age, Sarah tries to figure out the puzzle of the second message. The bond between Don and Sarah continues, even while Don is joyfully and guiltily discovering the pleasures of living in a young body again. They want to do what’s right for each other and the rest of humanity — for the aliens, too — if they can figure out what “right” could be. By its nature, a story about moral choices tends to get talky, but the talk is intelligent and performed by sympathetic and believable people.
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Starplex
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
Canadian author Sawyer offers an epic hard-science space adventure full of technical descriptions of starships and physics tempered by human concerns. In the twenty-first century, the human race has both developed faster-than-light travel and contacted nonhuman intelligent races. Starplex, under the command of Keith Lansing, is one of the contact makers. Lansing faces hostile crew members, the personal and cultural idiosyncracies of nonhumans, the problems of first contact, and a marriage that may be deteriorating. Scientists on the Starplex study the mysterious artificial wormholes that make space travel routine and convenient. Then the wormholes' creators appear, and the scientists must understand and communicate with them to save the galaxy.
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The Hand You're Dealt
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
First published in the anthology Free Space, edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (Tor, 1997). This is the author’s preferred text as published in the anthology Crossing the Line: Canadian Mystery Fiction With A Twist, edited by Robert J. Sawyer David Skene-Melvin (Pottersfield, 1999) Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1998. Nominated for Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award in 1998
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The Shoulders of Giants
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
A slower-than-light starship that was launched in the beginning of 21st century to Tau Ceti, after more than a thousand years of flight is nearing its destination. But technical progress did not stand still back on Earth through all those years, and Tau Ceti has already been populated by humans for centuries…
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Vuelta atrás
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
La doctora Sarah Halifax logró descifrar y contestar el primer mensaje enviado por extraterrestres. Al cabo de treinta y ocho años, cuando ella es ya casi nonagenaria, llega la respuesta. Sólo Sarah es capaz de descifrarla, si vive el tiempo suficiente… Sarah y su esposo Don son sometidos a un costoso tratamiento de rejuvenecimiento (vuelta atrás). Don recupera la fortaleza física de sus veinticinco años, pero Sarah… Sawyer ofrece de nuevo una interesantísima exploración ética y moral, esta vez a escala humana y también cósmica, sobre la vida y el papel de la tecnología en el desarrollo futuro del ser humano.
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Wake
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
Caitlin was born blind, and when, newly arrived in tenth grade, she is offered a chance at an experimental procedure to give her sight, she leaps at it, despite previous disappointments. When she returns from the Tokyo hospital in which she underwent the procedure, it seems a failure. Soon enough, though, she discovers that, instead of reality, she is perceiving the Web. What’s particularly interesting is the background noise. Something strange is floating around behind the nodes of normal Webspace; a closer look reveals that, whatever it is, it’s not just meaningless noise. Caitlin’s story alternates with those of Hobo, a chimp whose claim to fame is being one of the first two apes to video-chat online; an entity of mysterious provenance; and a Chinese dissident blogger who is quite curious about why everything from outside China is blocked. Sawyer’s take on theories about the origin of consciousness, generated within the framework of an engaging story, is fascinating, and his approach to machine consciousness and the Internet is surprisingly fresh. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010.
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Watch
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH—the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States—and they’re fully aware of Caitlin’s involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind’s capacity for compassion—and she will do anything and everything necessary to protect her friend.
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Wonder
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
Webmind—the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web—has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated. Caitlin Decter—the once-blind sixteen-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind—wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything—Webmind included-may come crashing down.
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You See But You Do Not Observe
Автор: Robert SawyerЖанр: Иностранная литература
First published in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1995); authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Winner of both the CompuServe Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum’s Sixth Annual HOMer Award for Best Short Story of the Year and Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, France’s top SF award, for Best Foreign Short Story of the Year.
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