Dans une galaxie où le progrès est roi, un marchand de chair humaine tente de vendre le jeune Thorby sur le marché aux esclaves qui se tient sur la place de la Liberté, du côté du port spatial, en face du Capitole des Neuf mondes.

Citoyen de la galaxie

The Number of the Beast, by the legendary author of the classic bestseller Starship Troopers, is one of the most audacious experiments ever done in science fiction.  Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast, originally published in 1980, follows the adventures of Zeb, Deety, Hilda, and Jake when they are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) that can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a "parallel" novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977. He effectively wrote two parallel novels about parallel universes. The novels share the same start, but as soon as the Gay Deceiver is used to transport them to a parallel universe, each book takes the readers to a totally different parallel world. From that point on, the plot lines diverge completely. Although some later passages may be found in both books, most of them are, fascinatingly, given a totally different context or perspective. The companion parallel book was never published, and there have been many competing theories as to why (including significant copyright issues in 1977 due to some of the material used in the book). Over time the manuscript was largely forgotten, although it survived in fragments. A recent re-examination of these fragments made it clear that, put together in the right order, they constituted the complete novel that is finally being published as The Pursuit of the Pankera. As both books are "parallel" books, they carry the subtitle A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes. So here it finally is, the other half of Heinlein's audacious experiment: a parallel novel about parallel universes.

The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

Avec la surpopulation qui épuise les ressources de la Terre, la nécessité de trouver de nouveaux mondes habitables est devenue plus urgente encore en ce début de quatrième millénaire. Cependant, si le voyage interplanétaire est devenu techniquement possible, les vaisseaux spatiaux voyageront moins vite que la lumière et communiquer avec la Terre prendra chaque fois des années. Mais l'Institut de Recherches Prospectives a découvert une solution inattendue à ce dilemme : la télépathie. C'est ainsi que Pat, un adolescent extraverti, et son jumeau Tom vont pouvoir mettre leurs dons exceptionnels au service du grand projet de colonisation interstellaire. Tandis que Pat vieillira sur la Terre, Tom et tout l'équipage de l'Elsie échapperont à l'emprise du temps. Mais ces explorateurs d'un genre nouveau auront-ils jamais la chance de revoir le monde qu'ils ont quitté au terme des aventures extraordinaires qui les attendent dans les profondeurs de l'espace ?

L'Âge des étoiles

Les enfants de mathusalem

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.

En terre étrangère

Et si la colonisation de la Lune était devenue indispensable à l’économie mondiale sur la Terre ? Et si Mars était habitée par une civilisation en déclin ? Et si quelques privilégiés possédaient une espérance de vie bien supérieure au reste de la population ?Avec son Histoire du futur, Robert Heinlein a composé l’une des oeuvres les plus ambitieuses et les plus réussies de la SF, dressant un panorama complet et vraisemblable de l’avenir de l’humanité sur plus de cinq cents années.Il marie ainsi le fameux sense of wonder de la science-fiction à la rigueur de la physique, de la biologie ou aux richesses de l’anthropologie et de la psychologie.Pour la première fois en France, les cinq livres qui composent cette fresque du futur sont réunis en un seul volume.Seul auteur récompensé à quatre reprises par le prestigieux prix Hugo, Robert Heinlein (1907- 1988) est l’une des figures les plus importantes de la science-fiction, aux côtés d’Asimov et Bradbury. Outre sa gigantesque Histoire du futur, on lui doit de nombreux chefs-d’oeuvre comme Marionnettes humaines, Étoiles garde à vous ! (adapté au cinéma sous le titre Starship Troopers) ou En terre étrangère. Un astéroïde porte aussi son nom. Cette intégrale regroupe :L’Homme qui vendit la LuneLes Vertes collines de la TerreRévolte en 2100Les Enfants de MathusalemLes Orphelins du cielIllustration de couverture : Adam Taylor

Histoire du futur - Édition intégrale

"Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further.a vivid, stirring experience."-Chicago Tribune"One of the superb Heinlein stories that has excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and is a joy to read."-The New York TimesWith over-population stretching the resources of Earth, the need to find and colonize other Terra-type planets is becoming crucial to the survival of the human race. But finding these planets is time-consuming and very costly. With a seemingly inexhaustible budget, the scientists at the Long Range Foundation create the remarkable Torchships, which are able to traverse to different Star Systems within the matter of months. However, communication between Earth and these ships would still take countless years-even decades. How would they alert Earth of the planets they find?Tom and Pat are recruited by LRF to become the human transmitters and receivers for the mission. Growing up together they had felt like they were so similar, so in sync, that it was almost as if they read each other's minds.. Only to discover, that was indeed what they could do. Along with other telepathic pairings, their abilities are tested, and it is discovered that time nor distance impedes their connection; communication between Earth and the Torchships would be instantaneous. But there is a catch: during the course of the mission, while one of them stays behind and grows old, on Earth, the other will be traversing the stars, and-if he survives-will return a young man."The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer-eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative-he reshaped science fiction in the way that defined it for every writer who followed him.. He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells."-Robert Silverberg

Time for the Stars

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

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.'

Citoyen de la galaxie

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