Il est né dans le ruisseau. Il a été baptisé, plus par compassion que par dérision, Job Napoléon Salk, par le médecin et l'infirmière qui l'ont sauvé de justesse.Job, comme l'homme de la Bible, accablé de tourments.Salk, comme le grand biologiste.Napoléon, parce que, prématuré et rachitique, il a peu de chances de devenir un géant.Il est né à un des pires moments de l'histoire, dans une Amérique du XXIe siècle en proie à la crise économique et à la dégradation de l'environnement, à la tyrannie des Princes qui la gouvernent mal sous couvert d'institutions faussement démocratiques. Il va errer d'asile en bordel, puis en maison de correction en passant évidemment par la rue. Dure école, mais formation idéale pour survivre en enfer.Et l'enfer, c'est la Dent du Nebraska.Une zone d'où l'on ne ressort pas, où l'on entasse les déchets chimiques et nucléaires de tout le continent. Et, accessoirement, où l'on déporte les scientifiques que la tyrannie des Princes a désignés comme responsables de la Grande Cassure.Ces scientifiques préparent quelque chose. Dell, factotum des Princes, veut savoir quoi. Quel meilleur agent que Job envoyer sur ce tas de fumier ?

Le frère des dragons

Shelby Cheever is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all-the-amusements-money-can-buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby-style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Such as how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates?He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage-for-ransom scheme, he'll need all the help he can get.

The Billion Dollar Boy

"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years."-Publishers Weekly"A master of hard science fiction."-NoumenonThis collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield. The stories range in length from being barely a page ("The Seventeen-Year Locusts") to long novelettes ("The Courts of Xanadu"). They also range in mood from the "very silly to very somber."Each of them provides a unique and highly imaginative look at the impact of technology on the human condition from one of the most innovative minds in science fiction. Charles Sheffield was a mathematician and a theoretical physicist who had that rare gift of making complex science understandable to everyone, as evident in this collection.

Dancing With Myself

"WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT." -- KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why "The King of Space" had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars!Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.

La toile entre les mondes

Humans first reached out to the stars travelling at a painfully slow sublight crawl - then they found the Bose network, which allowed ships to jump instantaneously from one node in the galactic arm to another. Once in the  Network they found the Artifacts: enigmatic structures, millions of years old, left by a vanished race. Incomprehensible to both human ad non-human minds, the Artifacts seemingly defy natural law. 
Now, after millions of years, a new Artifact has appeared - and previously discovered Artifacts are showing strange changes in their inexplicable activities. When a motley crew of human and alien scientists and adventurers set out to examine still more Artifacts, they should have considered the fat that some changes are more dangerous than others...

Convergence

A man from Earth's distant past is humanity's only hope for a future...Drake Merlin's wife, the love of his life, is dying of a rare, fatal disease for which there is no cure. Not now, in the 21st century. But surely in the future...For Drake there is only one solution: have Ana's body frozen until she can be cured. And he will go with her into the cryowomb. It is a desperate gamble born of folly, obsession...and love.Thus begins an epic journey across eons, as Drake is revived again and again, only to find that Ana is beyond help. Millions of years past his first sleep, he learns there is hope for her restoration - at the Omega Point, where the universe collapses, merging past and present. But first he will be awakened to become humanity's unwilling savior. For an alien menace is laying the solar system to waste, and only an anachronism from the days of human barbarism can save an enlightened race...

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Il est né dans le ruisseau.
Il a été baptisé, plus par compassion que par dérision, Job Napoléon Salk, par le médecin et l'infirmière qui l'ont sauvé de justesse. 
Job, comme l'homme de la Bible, accablé de tourments. Salk, comme le grand biologiste.
Napoléon, parce que, prématuré et rachitique, il a peu de chances de devenir un géant.
Il est né un des pires moments de l'histoire, dans une Amérique du XXIe siècle en proie à la crise économique et à la dégradation de l'environnement, à la tyrannie des Princes qui la gouvernent mal sous couvert d'institutions faussement démocratiques.
Il va errer d'asile en bordel, puis en maison de correction en passant évidemment par la rue. Dure école, mais formation idéale pour survire en enfer.
Et l'enfer, c'est la Dent du Nebraska.
Une zone d'où l'on ne ressort pas, où l'on entasse les déchets chimiques et nucléaires de tout le continent.
Et, accessoirement, où l'on déporte les scientifiques que la tyrannie des Princes a désignés comme responsables de la Grande Cassure.
Ces scientifiques préparent quelque chose.
Dell, Factorum des Princes, veut savoir quoi.
Quel meilleur agent que Job envoyer sur ce tas de fumier ?

Jefferson Kopal, the privileged son of a wealthy family, knows he is a coward and a failure. He dreads appearing for and then barely passes the Space Navy test to qualify for service as an officer-something that has been an integral part of his family's tradition. He is assigned to the remote Border Command by the Navy and eventually to a ship commanded by Captain Dufferin, who hates everything that the Kopal family stands for. But when he is abandoned by his Captain and the rest of the crew, left for dead and possibly framed as a traitor, he must find his inner courage and resolve, not only to save himself, but to save his world as well.

The Cyborg from Earth

Scheming to get rid of obstacles, Josh Kerrigan's step-aunt ships him and her autistic step-daughter to Solferino to work for Foodlines. Josh and Dawn join a small training group that is ostensibly doing scientific research and exploration under the watchful eye of the company. But as the days go by and strange occurrences and mysterious happenings continue, it becomes apparent that something is very wrong and that someone has very different plans for the planet. Even more importantly, Josh and the other members of the training team realize that they are being lied to about intelligent life existing on the planet and then it becomes a race against time to save those creatures as well as themselves.

Putting Up Roots

Physicist and writer Charles Sheffield very quickly built a reputation for imaginative, cleverly-plotted hard SF. In his second novel he posited the concept of a space elevator simultaneously to - but independent of - Arthur C. Clarke. This omnibus contains three of his finest works: debut novel, SIGHT OF PROTEUS; planetary romance, SUMMERTIDE; and space opera, COLD AS ICE.

Charles Sheffield SF Gateway Omnibus

Savant, détective et bon vivant, voici Erasmus Darwin (le grand-père du fameux Charles), ressuscité dans une série de trois mystérieuses aventures se déroulant dans la brumeuse Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle, alors que des démons marins hantent les côtes écossaises et que le petit peuple danse sur les collines au clair de lune... Remarqué pour ses histoires de hard-science, Charles Sheffield a pris le parti de faire revivre l'un des plus brillants esprits du XVIIle siècle pour lui faire résoudre avec intelligence et humour des intrigues où le surnaturel est roi. Sous sa plume, Erasmus Darwin devient une sorte de Sherlock Holmes de l'aventure fantastique, un détective de l'Occulte hors série qui n'hésitera pas à affronter bien des dangers pour satisfaire son insatiable curiosité et sa fascination pour l'étrange. Un héros inhabituel pour un livre passionnant

Le Démon de Malkirk

McAndrew est un Einstein du XXIIe siècle, le physicien le plus génial de son temps. Il jongle avec l'espace et le temps et sait asservir les trous noirs pour en tirer de l'énergie en quantité fabuleuse.Sa science lui permet d'inventer le premier navire interstellaire réa­liste de toute l'histoire de la science-fiction ? Il en profite pour explo­rer, en compagnie de la séduisante pilote spatiale Jeanie Roker, les énigmes du Système solaire, le halo de comètes qui l'entoure, et finalement pour mettre le cap sur les plus proches étoiles.Une histoire de science-fiction scientifique, contée avec beaucoup d'humour par un physicien, Charles Sheffield, qui se situe dans la lignée de Robert Heinlein et d'Arthur C. Clarke.

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