New Releases by David Wingrove

Part Three of The Roads to Moscow The war for time is reaching its end As the German and Russian forces seek to destroy a third, seemingly unstoppable faction, Otto Behr reluctantly finds himself at the centre of all timelines, his very existence the catalyst by which reality itself will be reset or destroyed. But for Otto, the battle to become the Master of Time has become a fight for family, love and reality itself...

"First published in Great Britain in 1991 by New English Library"--Title page verso.

The Middle Kingdom The year is 2196. The Minister of the Edict - an official responsible for licensing all technology that could lead to Change - has been assassinated, and the great Empire of Ice, Chung Kuo, has finally been shaken after more than a century of brutally-enforced peace. Amid the chaos, the rebels seize the opportunity to affect Change. But the assassination was orchestrated far closer to home, leading them all into dangerous chain of betrayal and deceit that will plunge them all into the world-shattering War of Two Directions. Ice and Fire Spring 2201 - Spring 2203. The T''ang who make up the ruling Seven are struggling to maintain stasis and prevent Change as the war is fought within the levels of their great world-spanning city - a war fought with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings. As the pressure mounts, a document is discovered by the Dispertionists that charts the true history of the world, and apparently its not exactly what the Ministry have told them...

The sixth instalment of David Wingrove''s Chung Kuo series. A limited edition for collectors and fans, beautifully presented in a slipcase and signed and numbered by the author.

Peace has returned The year is 2206. After five years of war, the Seven are weak. They have lost three of their members, and the new T''ang are young and inexperienced. Once it was considered inconceivable but now, down in the lowest levels of the immense CIty, new currents of unrest have awoken. Currents that threaten to tear Chung Kuo apart. The fight endures But the demand for CHange is not the only threat to the Seven. Major Howard DeVore will use any means available to destroy them and their world-spanning City. And, from their own ranks, Wang Sau-leyan, appointed T''ang after the suspicious deaths of his father and elder brothers, plots to destroy them from within. The Seven are vulnerable and the forces against them continue to grow... Welcome to the Future

"The broken wheel was first published as part of ''The white mountain'' in Great Britain in 1991 by New English Library"--Title page verso.

Spring 2201 -Spring 2203: The T''ang who make up the ruling Seven are struggling to maintain stasis and prevent change, as the "War That Wasn''t A War" is fought within the levels of Chung Kuo''s great world-spanning City: a war fought not with armies on battlefields but with an inventive evil -with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings.

A monumental publishing event: Introducing Chung Kuo, a masterwork of future history standing alongside Herbert''s Dune and Asimov''s Foundation.

The revolution over, rebellion now threatens China''s dominion. Can the kingdom weather the storm? The second installment of David Wingrove''s epic masterpiece Chung Kuo.

Comment briser le pouvoir des Sept P Comment semer la discorde dans leurs rangs ? Comment détruire l''ordre du Zhongguo ? Howard DeVore s''y emploie : un attentat sanglant spectaculaire, la destruction des plantations vivrières d''Europe de l''Est... Le renégat, fin joueur de miel, prépare toujours plusieurs coups d''avance. Et les passions irrépressibles s''en mêlent aussi : celle, coupable, de Feiyan pour le tang d''Asie occidentale pourrait déchirer le Conseil suprême. Si elle venait à se savoir... Les haines et les désirs s''enflamment, les manœuvres s''accélèrent, les événements se précipitent. La Cité Terre court-elle à sa perte ? Li Yuan avait jadis fait un rêve : une montagne blanche d''ossements couvrait la plaine où se trouvait naguère la Cité... l''ouvre monumentale de David Wingrove atteint ici un apogée.

This omnibus edition of the hugely popular Myst trilogy is published to coincide with the release of Myst Revelations, the latest in the line of the bestselling Myst interactive CD-ROM games. The award-winning Myst series is one of the most successful interactive CD-ROM computer games in history with sales of more than 12 million copies worldwide. Myst captivated the world when it was first conceived and created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller. Its extraordinary success has gone on to spawn Riven, Myst III Exile, and most recently, Uru: The Ages Beyond Myst. Devoted fans of these surreal adventure games gather yearly at "Mysterium" (whose event sites are spreading to other countries) to exchange game strategies, share stories, and meet up with old friends. The Myst Reader is a literary companion to the CD-ROM games and a compendium of the bestselling official Myst trilogy: The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti''ana, and The Book of D''ni. Devoted fans and new players alike will be delighted to have three books in this mythic saga together for the first time in one value-priced volume, which will be published in time to coincide with the long-awaited release of Myst Revelations.

Atrus, fils de Gehn, petit-fils d''Aitrus et de Ti''ana, n''a qu''un rêve : ressusciter D''ni dont l''histoire berça son enfance, la relever de ses ruines, effacer à jamais le souvenir du cataclysme qui anéantit la fabuleuse cité souterraine de ses ancêtres. Pour la repeupler, il lui faut rechercher à travers les Ages d''éventuels survivants de la Grande Peste. Atrus, sa compagne Catherine et leurs amis d''Averone s''en vont donc, grâce aux anciens livres D''ni, explorer les mondes lointains - mondes déserts, hostiles. Jusqu''au jour où ils découvrent Yerahnee. Là, tout n''est qu''harmonie, douceur, beauté. Les hommes y vivent en paix et sont gouvernés par un roi au visage d''ange. Un monde parfait. Mais cet Age possède une face cachée. Un envers diabolique. Et le rêve va se transformer en cauchemar. Pourtant, il était écrit qu''Atrus, héritier du Grand Monarque, viendrait, en messager de la plus glorieuse des civilisations, accomplir les anciennes prophéties...

Abstract: "The basic building blocks of a database system are data items, database operations, transactions, and a concurrency protocol. A data item is a single piece of information, which can represent an integer, an image, or any abstract piece of information. A database operation can be a read operation where a data item is retrieved, a write operation where a data item is created or changed, or a delete operation where a data item is removed from the database. A transaction is a set of database operations performed together as a single operation. The concurrency protocol of a database ensures that transactions running simultaneously will not interfere with each other in a way that could jeopardize the consistency of the database. An acceptable protocol prevents information loss from lost updates and inconsistent views of the database, and also provides recoverability from failed database operations. These tasks will be defined in the section I of this paper. The ideal algorithm accomplishes these tasks with minimal network, processing, and storage overhead. In this paper, a new type of concurrency protocol will be presented. It is an optimistic, multi-versioning, dependency-based protocol. The protocol will be described, proven to fulfill the requirements described above, and compared to two of the more commonly used concurrency protocols."

Excitement for the MYST series continues with the release of the new CD-ROM Riven, the long awaited sequel to MYST. In this third novel by the creators of the CD-ROM phenomenon, Catherine and Atrus return to the devastated domain of the D''Ni civilization to fulfill their destinies. But as they begin to search the many worlds, seeking the survivors Ti''ana told them of, they find clues that bring them to a hidden book and discover a secret that the D''Ni masters planned long ago.

Ti''ana, known among humans as Anna, is the first woman from the outside worldto enter the domain of D''ni. This is her story of trust and betrayal, and herstruggle against the evil schemes of Veovis, the architect of the destructionof D''ni, and all that she loves.

Sans lui, son père, que serait-elle devenue ? Il l''a élevée, lui a appris tout ce qu''il savait, lui a inculqué son insatiable curiosité, son amour des étoiles et du désert, sa passion pour la roche. Et puis il est mort, la laissant seule. Alors Anna, la jeune fille qui n''a connu que la brûlure du soleil, de la pierre et du sable, laisse tout derrière elle. Elle s''engage dans le mystérieux souterrain qu''elle et son père ont commencé à explorer au pied de la falaise. Et découvre l''inimaginable. En bas, au centre de la Terre, dans une caverne gigantesque, vit depuis des millénaires un peuple mystérieux, insoupçonné : le peuple D''ni, créateur de mondes, maître des secrets de l''univers. Là, au bord du grand lac diffuseur de lumière, la jeune fille, "l''intruse ", "l''étrangère ", va rencontrer son destin. Et trouver son véritable nom : Ti''ana.

The final book in David Wingrove''s critically acclaimed science fiction masterpiece is set among the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine," where former freedom-fighter Emily Ascher now serves as mother to the orphan boys of a war-devastated land. But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born, a baby girl smothered and thrown away, but not yet dead, and a baby boy delivered into a hostile land, yet determined to fight for his life. They are part of a new generation who will see more death than any who have gone before. Although peace seems to reign, the puppet master of an army of giant androids plans one final absolute destruction. And although the great T''ang, the dictators of Earth, are gone, mega corporation GenSyn remains*as does its pleasure drug which will turn Chung Kuo into a funeral pyre. Now the only escape lies in sending survivors toward new stars, or joining Emily Ascher in a battle for liberty and a new Earth.

Science fiction roman om Kina i slutningen af 2100-tallet

A paperback, science-fiction novel about a mysterious world on the island of Myst. The plot develops around the relationship between Artus and his vicious father Gehn. Both have a powerful gift known as the Art, the ability to conjure new worlds out of words. The resolution of their struggle brings both a new world and an unanswered question. Also available in hardback.