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The final work from the brightest star in science fiction's galaxy. Arthur C Clarke, who predicted the advent of communication satellites and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey completes a lifetime career in science fiction with a masterwork.

 30 light years away, a race known simply as the One Point Fives are plotting a dangerous invasion plan, one that will wipe humankind off the face of the Earth.

 Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, a young astronomy student, Ranjit Subramanian, becomes obsessed with a three-hundred-year-old theorem that promises to unlock the secrets of the universe. While Ranjit studies the problem, tensions grow between the nations of the world and a UN taskforce headed up by China, America and Russia code-named Silent Thunder begins bombing volatile regimes into submission.

 On the eve of the invasion of Earth a space elevator is completed, helped in part by Ranjit, which will herald a new type of Olympics to be held on the Moon. But when alien forces arrive Ranjit is forced to question his own actions, in a bid to save the lives of not just his own family but of all of humankind.

 Co-written with fellow grand master Frederik Pohl, The Last Theorem not only provides a fitting end to the career one of the most famous names in science fiction but also sets a new benchmark in contemporary prescient science fiction. It tackles with ease epic themes as diverse as third world poverty, the atrocities of modern warfare in a post-nuclear age, space elevators, pure mathematics and mankind's first contact with extra-terrestrials.

The Last Theorem

L'ère des gladiateurs : un monde futur où la violence est institutionnalisée. Une jungle de béton formée de cités-cauchemars, où les Jeux du Cirque ont retrouvé la même faveur qu'au temps de l'Empire Romain, avec un raffinement d'imagination technique et de perversité. Dans cet univers où tout est jeu, votre destin dépend d'un gigantesque système de paris mutuels. Mais pour les gangsters au pouvoir il n'y a pas de Hasard. Contre eux, contre cette mafia de l'avenir, le jeune avocat Charles Mundin engage un combat sans merci. Le voilà obligé de se faire gladiateur. Combien miseriez-vous sur lui ?

L'ere des Gladiateurs

Les Pilotes De La Grande Porte

Camarades, la consommation n'est pas un droit, c'est un devoir civique. Ils formaient un joli couple, mais ils ne venaient pas du même monde. - Tu n'es pas heureuse ? A cause de... tout ça. Morey, d'un geste vague, impliquait les vingt-six pièces de leur demeure, leurs cinq voitures, les neuf robots... - Chéri, j'ai essayé. Je t'aime, Morey, mais je crois que je deviens folle de vivre ainsi. J'en ai assez d'être pauvre ! Heureux les humbles, car ils hériteront de la terre. Heureux Morey, héritier de plus de biens matériels qu'il n'en pourra jamais consommer. LE MOINDRE DES FLÉAUX : Et si les autres avaient gagné ? Quand il se réveilla, il se sentait malade et un peu ivre. Il regarda autour de lui. Les indices d'un incroyable carnage pullulaient dans toute la demeure. Royland s'avança en chancelant jusqu'au charnier, fouillant à pleins bras parmi les ossements entassés. Quelque chose de tranchant, aussi acéré qu'une lame de rasoir, le coupa. C'était un fragment de sabre long d'une quinzaine de centimètres. La courbure de l'arme ne laissait aucune place au doute : un sabre de samouraï. Ainsi, la guerre était finie...

Heureux les humbles

Les annales de la cité 2

Au large de Vénus, les hommes ont découvert un bizarre héritage laissé par une civilisation disparue, celle des Heechees. Des œuvres d'art, des bijoux énigmatiques et, surtout, la Grande Porte. Dans ce port spatial déserté depuis des millénaires il reste des centaines d'astronefs. Des vaisseaux interstellaires qui fonctionnent encore et qui permettent de se rendre, instantanément, à l'autre bout de l'univers. Impossible de connaître la destination du voyage, impossible de savoir avec certitude si le vaisseau retrouvera la Terre. Pour cela, les Prospecteurs, ces aventuriers assez audacieux pour se laisser emporter, seuls, entre les soleils, sont devenus des héros et des hommes riches... Telle Robinette Broadhead qui, ayant gagné un jour à la Loterie planétaire, a décidé de convertir sa soudaine fortune en un passage pour la Grande Porte...

La Grande Porte

In the not-too-distant future, a desperate war for natural resources threatens to bring civilization to a halt. Nuclear warships from around the globe begin positioning themselves as the American government works feverishly to complete a massive project to colonize Mars. Former astronaut Roger Torraway has agreed to be transformed by the latest advances in biological & cybernetic science into something new, a being that can survive the rigors of Mars before it's terraformed. Becoming Man Plus will allow him to be the linchpin in opening the new Martian frontier, but not without challenging his humanity as no man has ever been challenged before. A bestselling, Nebula Award-winning novel when first published more than thirty years ago, this book is now more relevant than ever, as the battle between corporate interests & those who seek to save Earth's natural resources steadily escalates. The question of where man will go once the world's food, water & oil have run out has yet to be answered. Man Plus by Frederick Pohl is a brilliantly imagined, compelling possible scenario that has enthralled countless readers.

Homme-plus

Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed, repaired, and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527, with a quarter of a million dollars coming to him from the same insurance policy. Not that he was rich—he was quickly informed that two million was a bare subsistence income. He needed a job, and quick. While looking, he somehow unintentionally insulted a man who took out a license to injure or kill him, attracted the attention of a woman who wanted to begin a relationship, said relationship being very unlike anything Forrester had heard of in his time—and he found a job. However, his employer was an alien, one of a group being held captive on Earth to keep them from getting home and giving the location of Earth to a civilization which might be hostile. And that was when things really became interesting.

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