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Novy Petrogradin taivaalta sataa matkapuhelimia. Uuden tasavallan nuorimpaan siirtokuntamaailmaan on saapunut Festivaali, tuntematon uhka, joka auttaa vallankumouksellisia saadakseen näiltä informaatiota ja rikkoo tiukkoja teknologiaa sääteleviä rajoituksia. Tasavallan laivaston taisteluristeilijät lähetetään palauttamaan järjestystä mukanaan Maasta kotoisin olevat insinööri Martin Springfield ja YK-diplomaatti Rachel Mansour.

Singulariteettitaivas on huikea kertomus kaukaisesta tulevaisuudesta, jossa erilaiset ajattelutavat ja informaatiokäsitykset törmäävät yhteen kohtalokkain seurauksin. Kvanttifysiikan teorioita hyödyntämällä avaruusalukset pystyvät siirtymään hetkessä valtavien etäisyyksien päähän, mutta lähes Jumalan kaltainen Eschaton voi puuttua pelottavalla tavalla kausaliteetin rikkomiseen. Teknologiakuvauksen rinnalla romaani tarjoaa kekseliästä yhteiskuntakuvausta, kiinnostavia henkilöhahmoja ja yllättäviä juonenkäänteitä.

Charles Stross (s. 1964) on brittiläinen kirjailija, joka on voittanut lukuisia palkintoja, mukaan lukien arvostetun Hugo-palkinnon kolme kertaa. Kovan tieteiskirjallisuuden ja avaruusoopperan ohella hän kirjoittaa lovecraftilaisesta kauhusta ammentavaa The Laundry Files -sarjaa ja Merchant Princes -tieteisfantasiasarjaa. Singulariteettitaivas on Strossin ensimmäinen suomennettu romaani. Teos oli vuonna 2004 Hugo-palkintoehdokkaana parhaan romaanin sarjassa.

Käytetty pehmeäkantinen
ISBN: 9789527275238
Pehmeäkantinen, 383s.
Nysalor-kustannus, 2019
Kunto K3- (hyvä-, pientä tahraa)

The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn't risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out. . .

Käytetty pokkari
ISBN 9780441016686
Mass Market Paperback, 345p.
ACE Books, 2009
Kunto K3

The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes vol 4

Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose.

Now, in The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (October 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765316714
ISBN-13: 978-0765316714
Kunto: K3

The Revolution Business: Merchant Princes vol 5

Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan€™s leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. But do they want her as a leader or a figurehead? She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional.

Series: Merchant Princes (Book 5)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (April 14, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765316722
ISBN-13: 978-0765316721

The Trade of Queens : Merchant Princes vol 6

A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, has carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne of their land in the Gruinmarkt world. Mike Fleming, late of US intelligence, has just survived an attack on his life in Massachusetts and knows the worst and deepest secret: behind the horrifying plot is a faction of the US government itself, preparing for a political takeover in the aftermath of terrifying disaster. There is no safe place except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain - which has just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own.

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (4 April 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765316730
ISBN-13: 978-0765316738