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Libri di Charles Stross su Unilibro.it
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2007 |
 
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GlasshouseAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Ace Books Awakening in a clinic with amnesia, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies out to kill him, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental polity simulating a pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity, but he experiences radical changes that threaten everything. Reprint. € 9,75
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Giungla di cementoAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Delos Books Può sembrare uno scherzo, una bravata da ragazzi, ma quella mucca di cemento apparsa improvvisamente nella campagna inglese per l'Agenzia britannica preposta al controllo delle attività magiche e occulte potrebbe essere l'annuncio di un problema dalle origini oscure. Un problema che appare connesso ad altri misteri del passato: dai rapporti segreti provenienti dall'India di fine Ottocento a inquietanti esperimenti scientifici del Novecento. Riemergono storie incredibili, che tuttavia potrebbero spiegare la ricomparsa di un pericolo che ha attraversato due secoli per risvegliarsi oggi. L'agente Bob Howard dell'Unità Anti Possessione viene svegliato nel cuore della notte per indagare e chiarire cosa ha portato alla trasformazione di quella mucca. Anche lui, all'inizio, prende la cosa con ironia e leggerezza, però a mano a mano che si addentra nella ricerca si rende conto che la sua indagine lo sta portante a contatto con una spietata macchinazione che mai avrebbe potuto immaginare. Romanzo vincitore del Premio Hugo 2005. € 10,00
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2006 |
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The Jennifer MorgueAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Independent Pub Group In 1975, the CIA made an ill-fated attempt to raise a sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. At least, 'ill-fated' was the information leaked to the press. In reality, the team salvaged a device, codenamed 'Gravedust,' that permitted communication with the dead. Enter Ellis Billington, glamorous software billionaire, who has acquired Gravedust by devious means. Billington plans to raise an eldritch horror, codenamed 'Jennifer Morgue,' from the vasty deeps, for the purpose of ruling the world. Worse still, he's prepared occult defenses that can only be penetrated by one agent walking a perilous path. But James Bond doesn't work for the Laundry. Instead, they send Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire. Bob must inveigle his way aboard Billington's yacht, figure out what the villain is up to, and stop him. But there's a fly in Bob's ointment by the name of Ramona Random - a lethal but beautiful agent for the Black Chamber, the U.S. counterpart to The Laundry. The Black Chamber has sent Ramona to ride shotgun on Bob, but Ramona has her own agenda that conflicts with her employer's ... After becoming 'entangled,' Bob and Ramona are captured by Billington and used to further his insidious plot. But let's not forget Bob's significant other, Dr. Dominique 'Mo' O'Brien, also an agent of The Laundry, who has been trained especially for this mission. Can these intrepid agents stop Billington from raising the dead horror and thus save the world from total domination? The Jennifer Morgue takes the reader on a wild adventure through the worlds of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non-Euclidian mathematics and computer hackerdom - sort of like Austin Powers, only more squamous and rugose. € 26,30
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AccelerandoAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Ace Books The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form... € 7,10
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The Hidden FamilyAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Tor Fantasy In the tradition of Roger Zelazny's classic Amber novels, the second volume of Charles Stross's thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worlds. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists -- with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet. € 7,40
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The Atrocity ArchivesAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Ace Books Charles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deighton—style espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror. Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But somehow, he is... € 13,40
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2005 |
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Iron SunriseAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Ace Books A G2 star doesn't just explode - not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown - an unimaginable - enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden, but also the very order of the universe.' And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows. € 8,30
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2004 |
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Singularity SkyAuthor: Stross Charles Publisher: Ace Books In a world transformed by the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence, the colony of New Republic, founded by people who wanted no part of the technological revolution, is threatened by an information plague of advanced technology. Reprint. € 7,10
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