Son nom : Valentin Michaël Smith. Ses signes particuliers : né sur Mars, elevé par les Martiens, seul survivant d'une expédition interstellaire. Son problème majeur : essayer de vivre sur la Terre. Accessoirement : essayer de comprendre la nature humaine, la mentalité des hommes, leur goût obscur pour la destruction, le chaos et le malheur. En Terre étrangère : un des chefs-d'oeuvre incontestables de la science-fiction contemporaine.

En terre étrangère

Après la grande guerre atomique de la fin du XXe siècle, le monde ne fut plus que chaos et désordre. Pour éliminer les hordes barbares qui s'étaient formées, les survivants durent remettre leur sort entre les mains de l'armée. Un siècle plus tard la civilisation, arrivée à l'âge des étoiles, restait dirigée par les militaires.Dans cet univers, Juan Rico s'engage le jour de ses dix-huit ans dans l'Infanterie Spatiale. Il ne sait pas quel sort terrible attend le fantassin qui, sur les mondes lointains, affronte les armées arachnides...

Étoiles, garde-à-vous !

Les membres de la première expédition vers Mars périrent tous. Sauf un : Valentin Michaël Smith, né sur Mars, élevé par les Martiens, recueilli et ramené sur Terre, à vingt ans, par la deuxième expédition au début du xxie siècle. Physiquement, Valentin Michaël Smith était humain. Mentalement, il était martien. La seule analogie qui convienne pour le définir est celle des enfants-loups, des enfants élevés par des loups. Mais les Martiens n'étaient pas des loups. Leur culture était plus riche que celle des Terriens. Le premier problème de Mike ? Survivre sur la Terre ! Tout lui était agression : la pesanteur, la pression atmosphérique, et surtout les hommes... Le second problème fut pour lui de comprendre en quoi les humains différaient des Martiens et pourquoi ils étaient malheureux…En terre étrangère, qui obtint le prix Hugo en 1962, est généralement considéré comme le meilleur roman de Robert Heinlein, lui-même l'un des plus fameux écrivains américains de science-fiction. Ce fut le livre culte des campus durant les années soixante et soixante-dix, et il est devenu un classique incontesté. Venant de l'auteur de Starship Troopers depuis porté à l'écran, et qui fit taxer Heinlein de militariste, En terre étrangère surprit par son pacifisme, son illustration de l'anarchisme et son apologie de l'amour libre.

Six men fight to the death against Found Hundred Million."Washington destroyed completely before the government could escape. With Manhattan in ruins, that leaves no -". There was a click as the television receiver was turned off. "That's that," said the man near it. "The United States is washed up." The whole of Asia - that's about four hundred million people - is in grave danger of defeat by the whole of America - that's exactly six men!This is the latest in the successful series of novels from the 'Dean of Science Fiction.'

Sixième Colonne

Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human."Gulf": in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein's later New York Times best seller, Friday."Lost Legacy": in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman–or would be, if we but had eyes to see.Plus two great short stories: Two of the master's finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a Man. The second story, "Jerry Was a Man," was adapted for the TV series Masters of Science Fiction, and is now available on DVD.1 online resource (8 hr., 40 min.), MP3 audiobook in 9 parts

Trois pas dans l'éternité

First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then four more follow up agents also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.

Marionnettes humaines

Les enfants de mathusalem

Cover artist: Lima de FreitasRobert A. Heinlein, um dos mais célebres autores norte-americanos de Ficção-Científica, volta à Colecção Argonauta com um dos seus mais célebres romances.Revolta em 2100 revela, mais uma vez, a imaginação prodigiosa deste consagrado escritor, e o seu forte e surpreendente poder de efabulação e, ao mesmo tempo, a agilidade com que estrutura fortemente as suas narrativas, conferindo-lhes todos os pormenores indispensáveis à sua concatenação interna. É devido ao concurso destas qualidades que Robert A. Heinlein consegue impregnar os seus romances daquela atmosfera que invade o leitor e o persuade de que se encontra perante os factos como uma espécie de testemunha presencial.Em Revolta em 2100, Robert A. Heinlein conduz-nos a um mundo futuro e tumultuoso, em cujas coordenadas sopra a violência e impera a força da reinvindicação e de contestação. Narrativa impressionante, desenvolvida a um ritmo de alucinação que não exclui o comedimento, Revolta em 2100 introduz-nos no âmago de um conflito em que as paixões tumultuam e os ventos sopram com incontida energia.Altamente aclamado pela crítica e pelo público dos muitos países em que se encontra editado, Revolta em 2100 não tardou a tornar-se um best-seller, sucesso que vai certamente repetir-se em Portugal, onde o seu autor conta numeroso grupo de admiradores.

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