New Releases by Vernor VINGE

Hugo-Award winner bestselling author Vernor Vinge''s first novel

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity''s fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it''s obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It''s up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge''s tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dans l''immensité de la Galaxie, l''étoile Marche-Arrêt est une énigme. Elle s''éteint pendant deux cent quinze ans puis se rallume pour trente-cinq ans. Son unique planète est habitée par des araignées intelligentes qui viennent d''inventer la radio. Leurs signaux attirent deux expéditions interstellaires. Celle des Queng Ho, un peuple marchand et itinérant qui parcourt l''espace en vendant et en achetant de l''information technologique. Et celle des Émergents, issus d''une civilisation violente et sadique qui a fait de la lutte pour le pouvoir son mode de vie. Qui l''emportera ? Un chef-d''œuvre du space opera. Au tréfonds du ciel a obtenu le prix Hugo 2000 et se situe dans le même univers, mille ans plus tôt, que le roman précédent de Vernor Vinge, Un feu sur l''abîme (Prix Hugo 1993), publié dans la même collection.

The novel that garnered Vinge his first "Best Novel" Hugo Finalist nomination, back in print after thirteen years. With a combination of hard-SF concepts, tight plotting, and appealing characters, Vinge tells a now-classic story of the Few triumphing over the Many. The Peace Authority, wielding a new state-of-the-art weapon, takes over the world, and claims to be "maintaining the peace" while really controlling the scattered survivors of the new world. The inventor of their weapon, which was never meant to be a weapon at all, leads a resistance of high-tech "tinkers" who fight to defeat the "Peace."

Since his first published story, "Apartness," appeared in 1965, Vernor Vinge has forged a unique and awe-inspiring career in science fiction as his work has grown and matured. He is now one of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the field , having won the field''s top award, the Hugo, for each of his last two novels. Now, for the first time, this illustrious author gathers all his short fiction into a single volume. This collection is truly the definitive Vinge, capturing his visionary ideas at their very best. It also contains a never-before-published novella, one that represents precisely what this collection encapsulates--bold, unique, challenging science fictional ideas brought to vivid life with compelling storytelling. Including such major pieces as "The Ungoverned" and "The Blabber," this sumptuous volume will satisfy any reader who loves the sense of wonder, and the excitement of great SF. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A collection of articles and essays about the new frontier of the Internet, especially a direct interface between brain and computer that enables game players of the future to actually experience the world of their fantasies.

The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time.

Un feu sur l''abîme, énorme à tous les sens du terme, renoue avec la grande tradition épique de la Science-Fiction, où l''extravagant est de rigueur et où l''impossible ne constitue qu''une difficulté passagère. Mais l''imagination effervescente de Vernor Vinge respecte toujours les lois de la logique et autant que possible celles de l''univers. Une expédition straumlienne, explorant une Archive dans la presque Transcendance, a déchaîné une Perversion sur la galaxie entière. Un unique navire est parvenu à fuir dans la nuit épouvantable. A travers l''espace, il fonce vers le centre de la galaxie, vers Les Lenteurs où l''on ne peut pas dépasser la vitesse de la lumière, où les systèmes informatiques les plus performants - même les si lentes intelligences biologiques - subissent une perte de leurs facultés. Il cherche un monde où se poser. Les deux seuls survivants de l''expédition détiennent sans le savoir la clé du salut de millions de civilisations, dont certaines sont bien plus anciennes que l''humanité : ce sont deux enfants, Johanna et Jefri, abandonnés à eux-mêmes sur un monde médiéval, dont les conflits et les cruautés ne le cèdent en rien à ceux de la galaxie. Et ceux qui voudraient les aider, et sauver du même coup la galaxie civilisée, se trouvent encore à des milliers d''années-lumière...

Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.

In a short novel and six never-before-collected stories, one of science fiction''s finest authors takes science and humanity to the limit. For fans of Larry Niven, Carl Sagan, and others. From the author of Marooned in Realtime.

Collects five science fiction short stories about adventures in the strange world of the future