Science Fiction

ماذا لو كان شريكك في التحقيق… ليس إنسانًا؟ في تجربة حكومية غير مسبوقة، تُجبر رئيسة المباحث «كات فرانك» على العمل مع «لوك»، ذكاء اصطناعي تجريبي بهيئة بشرية، لاختبار مستقبل العمل الشرطي، وذلك أثناء التحقيق في سلسلة من حالات الاختفاء الغامضة. «كات» تعتمد على الحدس والخبرة الإنسانية، و«لوك» لا يثق إلا في الأرقام والخوارزميات. لكن هذه القضية ليست عادية؛ كاميرات مراقبة متوقفة، آثار رقمية ممحوّة، وملفات بلا أي خيط واضح. هل هناك مَن يتلاعب بكل ما هو رقمي.. بلا أثر؟ بينما تتقدم التحقيقات، تكتشف «كات» أن هناك قاسمًا مشتركًا واحدًا بين جميع المفقودين، قاسمًا لا تراه الخوارزميات، لكن يلتقطه حدسها فورًا: ابنها «كام». وعندما يختفي «كام» بدوره، يتحول التحقيق إلى سباق مع الزمن، وإلى مواجهة شخصية مع الماضي، ومع سؤال أخطر: هل يمكن للذكاء الاصطناعي أن يفهم الإنسان عندما تصبح حياته على المحك؟ «في غمضة عين» رواية مشوقة تمزج بين الجريمة والخيال العلمي، عن الفقد والأمومة، وعن صراع الذكاء البشري مع الذكاء الاصطناعي، وعن ذلك الحد الفاصل الدقيق بين العبقرية.. والجنون.

Food supplies are dwindling and Sam Temple is facing mutiny from the kids in Perdido Beach. Driven into town by hunger, Caine and his psychotic sidekick are spreading fear and violence.

And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry.

The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.

Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light?

‘I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent’ Stephen King

If you love GONE, be sure not to miss Michael’s new series Front Lines – it’s WWII but not as you know it! The first book is Front Lines, followed by Silver Stars. Michael Grant also has a World Book Day book, Dead of Night, which is set in the Front Lines universe and written exclusively for World Book Day 2017.

Michael Grant has lived an exciting, fast-paced life. He moved in with his wife Katherine Applegate after only 24 hours. He has co-authored over 160 books but promises that everything he writes is like nothing you’ve ever read before! If the Gone series has left you hungry for more from the dark genius of YA fiction, look out for the BZRK trilogy: BZRK, BZRK Reloaded, BZRK Apocalypse and the terrifying Messenger of Fear and its sequel The Tattooed Heart. Michael is a World Book Day author for 2017.

Drugi tom trylogii Wspomnienie o przeszłości Ziemi, największego w ostatnich latach wydarzenia w światowej fantastyce naukowej, porównywalnego z klasycznymi cyklami Fundacja i Diuna. Chiński bestseller, który zyskał ogromny rozgłos w USA – w 2015 roku tom pierwszy, Problem trzech ciał, otrzymał nagrodę Hugo dla najlepszej powieści.

Wyobraź sobie wszechświat jako las pełen nieznanych drapieżników. Żeby przetrwać, trzeba pozostać niezauważonym – każda cywilizacja, która się ujawni, zginie.

Ziemia właśnie się ujawniła. Drapieżcy nadciągają.

Mieszkańcy Ziemi nie mogą otrząsnąć się z szoku po odkryciu, że za czterysta lat czeka ich inwazja kosmitów. Ruch na rzecz Ziemskiej Trisolaris został pokonany, ale obcy dzięki sofonom mają dostęp do wszystkich gromadzonych przez ludzi informacji. Tylko to, co się dzieje w ludzkich umysłach, pozostaje przed nimi ukryte. Staje się to bodźcem dla stworzenia programu Wpatrujących się w Ścianę, opracowania tajnych strategii, niemożliwych do rozszyfrowania zarówno dla Trisolarian, jak i dla Ziemian.

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever. From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.

An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Muggles who have seen the eponymous film or read the Harry Potter novels will be familiar with some of these beasts – the Niffler, the Thunderbird, the Hippogriff ... This new paperback edition features the recently revised 2017 text, which includes six curious new creatures that inhabit the North American continent, and a new foreword from Newt Scamander that sheds fascinating light on the events surrounding a serious breach in the International Statute of Secrecy which took place in New York in the 1920s. This paperback edition features gorgeously shimmery snakeskin detail on the foil effect jacket and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Newt Scamander’s masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Witches, wizards and Muggles of all ages will delight in discovering the extraordinary habits and habitats of magical beasts from across five continents

عندما تصطدم الحقيقة مع الخيال الممتع، فإن الخيال يكسب بالتأكيد!.. هكذا تولد الأساطير.. هكذا تولد الشائعات.. تتضافر عوامل عدة مثل الذاكرة المزيفة، والرغبة في التصديق، والبحث عن الإثارة، وشهوة جذب الاهتمام، والبحث المحموم عن تفسير منطقي لطلاسم الكون، دعك من الرغبة في الكسب المادي لأن سوق الخرافة رائجة في كل مكان وزمان.. من ثم تغدو الخرافة أكثر واقعية من الواقع ذاته. قليلون امتلكوا الشجاعة كيف يفحصوا ويفندوا ويعلنوا ما توصلوا له.. في العصور الوسطى كان أمثال هؤلاء يحرقون أحياء، أما اليوم فلا يعبأ بهم أحد ولا يصدقهم أحد.. وهو عقاب ليس أقل قسوة في رأيي.. هذا الكتاب لا يعلن الحرب على الخيال.. بل يعلنها على الخيال الذي يصر أصحابه على أنه الحقيقة الوحيدة.

'Glorious ... The perfect anthology' A Dragon in Space. 'The title story might break your heart a little. But that can never be such a bad thing. It's beautiful' Jackie Morris. 'A truly wonderful selection from a first-rate storyteller ... an excellent volume; entertaining, questioning, with mind-stretching ideas and places' New Books Magazine. 'Ken Liu isn't just an entertaining and original author - though he is certainly that - he is an important one. Here is an author using his life experience, his talent and skill as an author and every genre and literary tradition at his disposal to make the case that we are humans and individuals before we are ethnic groups or nationalities, and that multiculturalism is our future.' Shoreline of Infinity magazine. 'An exquisite collection of work. More layers of meaning await its readers who can't fail to find something moving and intelligent in the writing of Ken Liu' Allen Stroud, Concatenation. 'There is plenty of evidence here to justify Liu's status as a new writer with great potential. This is the best book I have read so far this year. Highly recommended.' Mark Bilsborough, Concatenation. 'This captivating collection of award-winning short stories is full of wonder and magical realism' Buzzfeed. 'Some of the stories are head-spinningly fantastic and almost surreal in their inventiveness' Irish Times. 'Liu's imagery never ceases to impress; he combines interesting backdrops to accentuate a whole host of intricate reactions, making him a true master of emotion and authenticity ... The Paper Menagerie will cement Liu as a once-in-a-lifetime author. Certainly his work is both stimulating and intoxicating and is the catalyst that sees contemporary Chinese fiction propelled to the forefront of sci-fi' 10/10. SciFiNow. 'When he's good, Liu is very very very good indeed' SFX. 'Now and then along comes a writer who can create a mood so evocative the length of the tale has no bearing on how long you live with its cast, and linger, curled up, inside its bubble ... Ken Liu is such a writer ... By the end of this collection, you return, blinking, into the sharp light of the here and now, and mourn those few short days when you were floating in Liu, heady with the thrill of a life in which your senses were sparked up like phosphorescent antennae to the wonders of our existence on this "boat in space"' The Big Issue. 'The Paper Menagerie is distinguished not only by its inventive imagination and emotional acuity - it has, as a whole, an impressive and cumulative coherence ... The glittering wit on the surface of these pieces belies their righteous anger and profound melancholy ... The finale is a revelation ... It is a wrenching, ethically complex and deeply uncomfortable story, with the subtle balance of testimonies and arguments never compromising its horror' TLS. 'Each of the fifteen stories in this collection is a jewel of fantastical storytelling, written by a man who not only knows how to convey complex and fascinating scientific and philosophical ideas but who is also able to transform those ideas, and use them to highlight the beauty and fragility of the human condition. It is a genuine work of art, a complete joy to read, and very very highly recommended' Starburst Magazine