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Sélection 2011

Blackout

Oxford Time Travel #4

Hugo Best Novel 2011, Nebula Best Novel 2011, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2011

de Connie Willis

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees...


All Clear

Oxford Time Travel #5

Hugo Best Novel 2011, Nebula Best Novel 2011, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2011

de Connie Willis

Winner of the Nebula Award

Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors...


The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

de Nora Jemisin

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the...


Feed

The NewFlesh Trilogy #1

de Mira Grant & Dave Coleman

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies...


Sélection 2010

The City & The City

Hugo Best Novel 2010, Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2010

de China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES...


Palimpsest

de Catherynne Valente

In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque...


WWW: Wake

de Robert Sawyer

A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic.

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her...


Sélection 2009

The Graveyard Book

Hugo Best Novel 2009

de Neil Gaiman & Dave Mckean

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs...


Little Brother

de Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no...

Saturn's Children

de Charles Stross

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct-leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures...


Sélection 2008

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Hugo Best Novel 2008, Nebula Best Novel 2008, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2008

de Michael Chabon

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling...


Halting State

Halting State #1

de Charles Stross

Now in paperback-from the author of Saturn's Children.

In the year 2018, a daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support,...


Sélection 2007

Blindsight

de Peter Watts

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright...

Glasshouse

de Charles Stross

In the twenty-seventh century, accelerated technology dictates the memories and personalities of people. With most of his own memories deleted, Robin enters The Glasshouse-an experimental polity where he finds...


His Majesty's Dragon

de Naomi Novik

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons....


Sélection 2006

Accelerando

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2006

de Charles Stross

The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series...

A Feast for Crows

A Song of Ice and Fire #4

de George R.R. Martin

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle...


Sélection 2005

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Hugo Best Novel 2005

de Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke's brilliant novel is an utterly compelling, epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the way two very different magicians, who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its...


Iron Council

Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2005

de China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Miéville’s Embassytown.

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover...


Iron Sunrise

de Charles Stross

Charles Stross' follow-up to his critically acclaimed Singularity Sky is the story of Wednesday Shadowmist, a sullen teenager who is humanity's only hope of stopping interstellar war.


Ilium

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2004

de Dan Simmons

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role...


Sélection 2004

Paladin of Souls

Nebula Best Novel 2005, Hugo Best Novel 2004, Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2004

de Lois Mcmaster Bujold

One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the...


Sélection 2003

The Years of Rice and Salt

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2003

de Kim Stanley Robinson

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred...


The Scar

Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2003

de China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Miéville’s Embassytown.

A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning...


Sélection 2002

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition

Nebula Best Novel 2003, Hugo Best Novel 2002, Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2002

de Neil Gaiman

First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and...


Passage

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2002

de Connie Willis

One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless...


The Curse of Chalion

de Lois Mcmaster Bujold

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to...


Perdido Street Station

de China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mieville’s Embassytown.

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races...


Sélection 2001

A Storm of Swords

A Song of Ice and Fire #3

Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2001

de George R.R. Martin

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.

Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series...


Sélection 2000

Cryptonomicon

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2000

de Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling...


Darwin's Radio

Nebula Best Novel 2001

de Greg Bear

"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women...


Sélection 1999

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Oxford Time Travel #3

Hugo Best Novel 1999, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1999

de Connie Willis

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel...

Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest.  He's been shuttling...


Children of God

de Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment...


Distraction

de Bruce Sterling

It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has...


Sélection 1998

Rise of Endymion

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1998

de Dan Simmons

The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time

The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come...


Sélection 1997

Blue Mars

Mars Trilogy #3

Hugo Best Novel 1997, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1997

de Kim Stanley Robinson

The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is  threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge,...


Remnant Population

de Elizabeth Moon

For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving...


Holy Fire

de Bruce Sterling

The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and...


Sélection 1996

The Diamond Age

Hugo Best Novel 1996, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1996

de Neal Stephenson

Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the

rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He's...


Remake

de Connie Willis

Winner of more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other science fiction author, Connie Willis is one of the most powerfully imaginative writers of our time. In Remake, she explores the timeless themes of emotion...


Brightness Reef

de David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written.  Now David...


The Terminal Experiment

Nebula Best Novel 1996

de Robert Sawyer

Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.


Sélection 1994

Green Mars

Mars Trilogy #2

Hugo Best Novel 1994, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1994

de Kim Stanley Robinson

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale...


Beggars in Spain

de Nancy Kress

In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have...


Glory Season

de David Brin

Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction.  Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing...


Sélection 1993

The Doomsday Book

Oxford Time Travel #2

Hugo Best Novel 1993, Nebula Best Novel 1993, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1993

de Connie Willis

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman...


Red Mars

Mars Trilogy #1

Nebula Best Novel 1994

de Kim Stanley Robinson

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars....


Sélection 1992

All the Weyrs of Pern

de Anne Mccaffrey

Led by Masterharper Robinton and F'lar and Lessa, the people of Pern excavate the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement and uncover the colonists' voice-activated artificial intelligence system....


Sélection 1991

Queen of Angels

de Greg Bear

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The Fall of Hyperion

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1991

de Dan Simmons

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.  On

the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening.  And...


Sélection 1990

Hyperion

Hugo Best Novel 1990, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1990

de Dan Simmons

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.  There are those who worship it.  There are those who fear it.  And there are those who...


Grass

de Sheri S. Tepper

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an...


Sélection 1988

The Uplift War

Hugo Best Novel 1988

de David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of...


The Forge of God

de Greg Bear

On July 26th, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of...


Sélection 1987

Count Zero

de William Gibson

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting...


Mission Earth Volume 2: Black Genesis

de L. Ron Hubbard

Intrigue, Betrayal, Blackmail... From the violent, heroin-riddled back streets of Turkey to the heart of government corruption in America, Mission Earth relentlessly hurls into a new labyrinth of Earth's underworld,...


Sélection 1986

The Postman

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1986

de David Brin

This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man...


Blood Music

de Greg Bear

The buffalo brought them west: frontiersmen like Billy Dixon, who made his living with a long-barreled rifle, and businessmen like George Eddy, who balanced the books for a frontier trading company. The buffalo...


Sélection 1985

Neuromancer

Hugo Best Novel 1985, Nebula Best Novel 1985

de William Gibson

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .

Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful...


Sélection 1984

Startide Rising

Hugo Best Novel 1984, Nebula Best Novel 1984, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1984

de David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of...


Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

de Anne Mccaffrey

Moreta, Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, struggles to save the dragons of Pern from a deadly plague and risks her life to destroy the lethal parasite Thread and to preserve the future of the planet.


The Robots of Dawn

de Isaac Asimov

A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely...


Tea with the Black Dragon

de R.A. MacAvoy

Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth...


Sélection 1980

The Fountains of Paradise

Hugo Best Novel 1980, Nebula Best Novel 1980, Locus Best Novel 1980

de Arthur C. Clarke

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve...


Sélection 1979

White Dragon

de Anne Mccaffrey

Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by...


Sélection 1978

Dying of the Light

de George R.R. Martin

Dying of the Light blew the doors off of my idea of what fiction could be and could do, what a work of unbridled imagination could make a reader feel and believe.”—Michael Chabon

 

In this unforgettable...


Sélection 1977

Children of Dune

Dune #3

de Frank Herbert

The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune.With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements of...


Sélection 1975

The Dispossessed

Hugo Best Novel 1975, Locus Best Novel 1975

de Ursula K. Le Guin

Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the...


Sélection 1974

Time Enough for Love

de Robert Heinlein

Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries. Time Enough for Love is his lovingly detailed account of his journey through...


Sélection 1973

The Gods Themselves

Hugo Best Novel 1973, Nebula Best Novel 1973, Locus Best Novel 1973

de Isaac Asimov

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know...


The Book of Skulls

de Robert Silverberg

Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy,...


Sélection 1966

Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)

Dune #1

Hugo Best Novel 1966, Nebula Best Novel 1966

de Frank Herbert

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib....


Sélection 1964

Cat's Cradle

de Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology...


Sélection 1963

Little Fuzzy

de Henry Beam Piper

The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it,...

Sélection 1962

Stranger in a Strange Land

Hugo Best Novel 1962

de Robert Heinlein

Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine...


Planet of the Damned

de Harry Harrison

Hugo nominated in 1962, originally published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction as "Sense of Obligation." Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition to test achievements in 20 categories of human...

Sélection 1961

Deathworld

de Harry Harrison

Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation!

Sélection 1960

Starship Troopers

Hugo Best Novel 1960

de Robert Heinlein

A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy.


The Sirens of Titan

de Kurt Vonnegut

The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful...


Brain Twister

Psi-Power #1

de Randall Garrett & Laurence Mark Janifer

In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens. In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies. In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers. And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering...

Sélection 1959

Immortality Inc.

de Robert Sheckley

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow...


Sélection 1958

The Big Time

Hugo Best Novel 1958

de Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr.

You can't know there's a war on—for the Snakes coil and Spiders weave to keep you from knowing it's being fought over your live and dead body!