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Science fiction-klassiker som har inspirerat till en rad böcker och filmer, bland annat King Kong och Jurassic Park. Den unge reportern Edward Malone har just blivit avvisad av sin stora kärlek, som söker en mer äventyrlig man. För att bevisa sitt mod beslutar han att söka sitt eget äventyr – och landar i en expedition…
En Tjänsteman. Som vet vad en Tjänsteman är satt att sköta. Och hur han ska sköta det. Därför att han har skött det tjänstemannamässigt, tillsammans med andra Tjänstemän, i decennier. Till och med i decennier av decennier. Så blir han plötsligt kallad till en enhet i en anläggning som visserligen faller under hans…
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality. Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means…
Kategorier: Science fiction Science fiction: cyberpunk Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk Skönlitteratur Spekulativ skönlitteratur
People are dying in their VR rigs. It shouldn’t be possible, but they are. Something is cruising the net, ghosting through holographic wallpapers, and haunting the perpetually online. Something which has games developers nervous, the secret police concerned, and has mogul business lords curious. Something is…
’A spectacular exploration of the power of technology…science fiction at its best’ Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife
”What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It’s like waking up for the first time ever. It’s like waking up with a third…
Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and…
How advanced is the technology that exists today, what are we using it for and can machines turn on their human creators? What is transcendence and why will we all be familiar with it? Technology is growing exponentially and the moment when it merges with the human mind, called “The Singularity,” is visible in our…
The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho.
Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive-that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact…
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship’s instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet.
Not that the object turned out to…
Anomali, så kallas det när en personlighetsmatris avviker kraftigt från det normala. Tankar, känslor, drömmar: sådant som måste hållas i schack. För en överskridare kan konsekvenserna bli digra. Är det tillräckligt allvarligt dras Eterpasset in och man utesluts från internet. Och i en värld där livet har flyttat in i…
The year is 1748. Elewa, known as ’the Daughter of Peace’, bears a heavy responsibility on her young shoulders: to maintain the fragile truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom.
But as she begins to understand her role in the peace negotiations, even greater pressures emerge. Elewa…
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It's the greatest discovery in humanity's spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way.…
A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in…
From the #1 bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about a refugee from Earth and a xenophobic Mars politician who agree to a fake marriage after a media encounter damages both their reputations.
In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in…
Året är 1962 och Deutschwelt omfattar alla världens kontinenter. En ny vetenskapsbaserad världsordning har införts. Med hjälp av petahertz-teknologin och sin mäktiga säkerhetspolis Zelt styr dr Künckel världen med järnhand.
Han är alltmer frånvarande och desillusionerad, vilket dr Jahnke utnyttjar för att stärka sin…
Hur skulle du reagera på uppmaningen att rädda ett intergalaktiskt imperium? När den vanligtvis så lugna och samlade Henrik Harlacker får veta om sitt sanna främmande arv, upptäcker han också att han är den rättmätige arvtagaren till tronen i Andromedagalaxen… men galaxen styrs av en obeveklig härskare som inte…
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death the previous year.
The…
A Unique Speculative Fiction Collection From The Nordic Countries
Storytelling has been a major force in the Nordic countries for thousands of years, renowned for its particular sense of dark humour, featuring pacts with nature and a view of the worlds you seldom find in other places.
Perhaps it is the freezing cold…
’There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could’ John Scalzi
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful new novel by award-winning author Ann Leckie.
Qven was created…
WHAT WILL BECOME OF US?
In the deep future beyond the burn line of the Anthropocene and the extinction of humanity, the city states of an intelligent species of bear have fallen to a mind-wrecking plague. The bears’ former slaves, a peaceable, industrious and endlessly curious people, believe that they have…
DE OSYNLIGA FYRVERKERIERNA är en samling noveller som sticker hål på verkligheten för att undersöka vad som finns på andra sidan.
Här finns mystiska glaskartor som visar vägen till vad som kallas för tillfälliga paradis. Okända varelser som skriver meddelanden med hjälp av gamla skrivmaskiner, ungefär som när spöken…
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.
The Carryx – part…
On the planet Talos VII, twenty-three years before the events of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, an anomaly is detected: a vast circular pit, with dimensions so perfect that it could only have been the result of conscious design. So a small team is assembled to learn more – perhaps even who built the hole and why.…
An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofA Game of Thrones
An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected…
When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, a mysterious stranger named Kora becomes their best hope for survival. From Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes REBEL MOON,…
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES THE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI PHENOMENON Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu’s THREE-BODY PROBLEM…
Hopeland is not a nation. It is not a cult. It is not a religion.
Hopeland is a community. It is a culture. It is a family.
When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne – tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace – in the…
Plötsligt flyter de bara där i svenska kustvatten – hundratusentals orörliga, kusligt barnliknande kroppar, guppande på vågorna med ansiktena blänkande i solen. De ser varken levande eller döda ut, utan frusna i tiden som på ett foto. Vissa av dem har spolas upp på skärgårdens rev och längs Ölands och Österlens…
Samuel Hansson är en ung man som arbetar med kryonik, en vetenskap som syftar till att bevara människors liv genom att frysa in dem. Han drömmer om att skapa en bättre och rättvisare värld, men han märker tidigt att det inte alltid är så enkelt. Det blir ofta fel. Det visar sig vara mycket svårt att leka Gud, att…
Kategorier: Klassisk science fiction Science fiction Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
En av de stora science fiction-klassikerna
Kris Kelvin anländer till forskningsstationen på den havstäckta planeten Solaris bara timmar efter att en av dess tre invånare oförklarligt har avlidit. Han varnas av de andra: Ser du någon som inte är vi, gör då ingenting, gå inte till angrepp. Förbryllad över varningen gör…
Kategorier: Dystopier och utopier Klassiker Klassisk science fiction Science fiction Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor Spekulativ skönlitteratur
Ny svensk översättning av Orwells mästerverk
Boktips i Babel: Niklas Rådström rekommenderar Ragnar Strömbergs nyöversättning av 1984 i Babel, SVT
»1984 släpps nu i en ny översättning av Ragnar Strömberg, där språket tajtats till och uppdaterats. En högst aktuell, tidlös och läsvärd bok, med ett världsbygge lika…
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her – and only she seems to be able to solve the crime.
After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had…