New Releases by Gregory Benford

Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award, Timescape has since become a classic of the science fiction genre, combining hard science, bold speculation, and human drama—a challenging and triumphant tale told by a master storyteller. 1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet. 1962. JFK is still president, rock ''n'' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth . . . a truth that will change his life and alter history . . . the truth behind time itself.

Science fiction-roman.

Arthur C.Clarke''s early novel Against the Fall of the Night, set far in the future, and a sequel by Gregory Benford. Alvin, the only child for many centuries born in what is believed to be the only city left on Earth, leads a renaissance. Man is reclaiming the Earth, but evil has also returned.

Gregory Benford expands Arthur C. Clarke''s novella, Against the Fall of Night, into a novel-length adventure set billions of years in the future about human destiny among the stars.

Grand space opera (dont ce titre est le deuxième volet après ##La grande rivière du ciel##) où le physicien, qu''est l''auteur, solidifie l''intrigue imaginaire au cours de laquelle s''affrontent humains et machines.

In two science fiction masterpieces about human courage and outer solar system exploration, Anderson--eight-time winner of the Hugo Award--and Benford and Carter provide chilling, highly readable adventure.

"Three visions of tyranny... Under the Wheel. Benford: Utopias can be magic places for those who want to live there. For the unwilling they can be hell on Earth... or off it... Ford: In the grim years following the U.S./Soviet cease-fire, the technology of mind control reaches heights never dreamed of in the 20th century... Springer: When best friends turn against each other, the parting is always cruel. when one is a tyrant and the other only a slave, it can be deadly..."--Pg. [4] of cover.

A collection of stories that speculates about what would have happened if Hitler had won the Second World War

Lorsqu''en 2061 la comète de Halley revient frôler le soleil, elle ne repart pas seule. Quelques centaines d''humains se sont installés dans ses profondeurs dans l''espoir d''accomplir avec elle un fabuleux voyage à travers le système solaire, mais aussi de modifier son orbite. Virginia, passionnée d''intelligence artificielle, Saul Lintz, généticien hors pair, Ould Harrad, prince mauritanien et diplomate exceptionnel, ont, entre tous les autres, choisi de vivre une aventure exceptionnelle, mais surtout de quitter une Terre déchirée. Les passions humaines vont reconstituer dans ce microcosme les conflits qu''ils voulaient oublier. Jusqu''à ce que les humains découvrent, au cœur de la comète, une forme de vie étrangère et qu''ils s''aperçoivent qu''ils ont, eux aussi, commencé à changer. A devenir, irrévocablement, une autre espèce. Cette odyssée, qui s''étend sur des décennies et des espaces astronomiques, met en scène des personnages à la fois étrangement proches de nous et singulièrement différents dans un cadre à l''exactitude scientifique rigoureuse. Gregory Benford et David Brin, tous deux écrivains et physiciens, sont les dignes héritiers du grand Arthur C. Clarke, l''auteur de 2001, l''odysée de l''espace.

The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream--a universe where beings are collected like songs.

SHAPESHIFTER The Changeling could become anyone or anything--man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission--to throw an entire world into eternal chaos and madness. The Earth Consortium could send only an embittered killer and an untrained anthropologist to hunt down the Changeling. Yet, dangerous though it was, the Changeling was not the only peril the Earthmen faced on Alvea, or the worst--for the Alveans feared and hated Earth. Even a hint of the hunters'' identities would leave them dead and dismembered within minutes.... Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund, authors of the Nebula-winning "If the Stars Are Gods," have crafted a taut, memorable SF thriller.