On a remote island in Lake Superior, scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation — using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. Funded by the biotech firm Genada, Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf seeks to recreate the ancestor of all mammals. By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs. Rhumkorrf discovers the ancestor, but it is not the small, harmless creature he envisions. His genius gives birth to a fast-growing evil that nature eradicated 250 million years ago — an evil now on the loose, and very, very hungry

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts — four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather. Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah: theirs is the story of a nation, a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of her own destiny

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law… usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war. Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night is a dazzling new space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton

Nate Wilderstern's brother has been killed, and the finger is pointed at him… After nearly two years, eighteen-year-old Nate returns home to the family empire ruled by his father – the ruthless Wildenstern Patriarch. But Nate's life is soon shattered by his brother's death, and the Rules of Ascension, allowing the assassination of one male family member by another, means he's being blamed. He knows that he is not the murderer, but who is? With the aid of his troublesome sister-in-law, Daisy, and his cousin Gerald, he means to find out. But when the victims of the family's tyrannical regime chose the funeral to seek their revenge, they accidentally uncover the bodies of some ancient Wildenstern ancestors, one of whom bears a Patriarch's ring. The lives of Nate and his family are about to take a strange and horrifying turn…

It's been asleep for centuries, and now it's awake. It wants things ... and you have to give it what it wants ... Seven hundred years ago the Anasazi people built massive cities in what is now the Southwestern United States ... and then they vanished. Stella, an archeologist specializing in Anasazi culture, and David, a mysterious Navajo boy, are on the run from something terrifying. As they flee up into the snowy mountains of Colorado, they are carjacked by criminals. Caught in a blizzard, they must take refuge in what they believe is an abandoned cabin. It's there that they will face horrors beyond their imagination

An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as “Dom,” proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boyhood with two men surely unknown to Dom and certainly to each other is interleaved with the story of Dom himself

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism, and the heart-wrenching humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he plumbs the memories of his first—and perhaps only—love (he, just fifteen, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring, and finally devastating)… and of his daughter, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only fail to understand. When his stunted acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who may not be who he says he is, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see with aching clarity the “chasm that yawns between the doing of a thing and the recollection of what was done.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq-oMYIS44o

The boys howled. In their pockets, eye droppers of gin. They skipped to their car with eyes wide open and sped into the night, down gray county roads, grieving over nothing they could name, beating the dashboard with their fists. Near dawn they broke into a cemetery and pissed on the first angel they could find. Leah's little brother, Jacob, disappeared when the pair were younger, a tragedy that haunts her still. When a grown man arrives at the non-profit Leah directs claiming to be Jacob, she is wrenched back to her childhood, an iridescent tableau of family joy and strife, swimming at the lake, sneaking candy, late-night fears, and the stories told to quell them. Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky is a wrecking-ball of a novel that attempts to give meaning and poetry to everything that comprises small-town life in central Kentucky. Listen: they are the ghost stories that children tell one another, the litter that skirts the gulley, the lines at department stores. Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky reads as though Anne Carson and Maggie Nelson wrote a more focused Antwerp and based it in central Kentucky. A gorgeous, haunting, prismatic jewel of a book

Now back in print—a powerful science fiction masterwork from the Nebula Award-winning author of Count Geiger’s Blues. Ancient of Days is among Michael Bishop’s most appealing works—the story of a prehistoric man found wandering in a Georgia orchard, whose honesty and deep spirituality bring him into conflict with the modern world. What if a living specimen of Homo habilis appeared in the pecan grove of a female artist living in Georgia? What if she reached out to her ex-husband, a restaurant owner in the small town of Beulah Fork, to help her establish the creature’s precise identity? From these dramatic speculations, Michael Bishop creates a complex story spanning several years in the late 1980s and intertwining the lives of many fascinating and/or exasperating characters, including… RuthClaire Loyd, an artist tasked with a project to illustrate several species of early human progenitors; Paul Loyd, the narrator of Ancient of Days, who believes that his rekindled devotion to RuthClaire will somehow win her back; Brian Nollinger, an anthropologist at the Yerkes Primate Center, whom Paul brings into their lives with disconcerting results; Dwight “Happy” McElroy, a televangelist who never passes up a chance to fund-raise, proselytize, or damn; A. P. Blair, a world-famous authority on human evolution who at first believes that RuthClaire’s “hominid” is an inept hoax; and Adam Montaraz, the living human fossil whom RuthClaire has named and dared to take into her home. Over the course of Ancient of Days, these characters and others work out their loves and conflicts across a variety of backdrops—from rural Georgia to the bistros and back alleys of Atlanta, all the way to the forests and caves of antique Montaraz, an enigmatic island under the dictatorial sway of “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti. A rare combination of science fiction, noir mystery, and comedy of manners, Ancient of Days will involve and challenge you as have few other novels

Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker’s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. “If the government wants to kill anyone else, it’ll have to start with us,” announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt’s readers have been waiting for

I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water' For André, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'. He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father who preaches from the head of the table as if it is a pulpit, and loathes himself, as he starts to harbour shameful feelings for his sister Ana. Lyrical and sensual, told with biblical intensity, this classic Brazilian coming-of-age novel follows André's psychological and sexual awakening, as he must choose between body and soul, duty and freedom

WINNER OF THE 2012 JAMES TIPTREE, JR. AWARD. Ancient, Ancient collects the short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam, of which acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, “Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions, and leave you breathless with their beauty.” Indeed, Ms. Salaam’s stories are so permeated with sensuality that in her introduction to Ancient, Ancient, Nisi Shawl, author of the award-winning Filter House, writes, “Sexuality-cum-sensuality is the experiential link between mind and matter, the vivid and eternal refutation of the alleged dichotomy between them. This understanding is the foundation of my 2004 pronouncement on the burgeoning sexuality implicit in sf’s Afro-diasporization. It is the core of many African-based philosophies. And it is the throbbing, glistening heart of Kiini’s body of work. This book is alive. Be not afraid.”

Eons before the birth of the Roman Empire, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived people who made dark plans to lay waste to their uncivilized neighbors using the very power of the planet itself. As the great science of their time was brought to bear on the invading hordes, hell was set loose on Earth. And the civilization of Atlantis disappeared in a suicidal storm of fire and water…Now history threatens to repeat itself. The great weapon of the Ancients has been discovered in the South Pacific, and it is being deciphered by men of hatred who want to unleash hell on Earth once again. This time, it’s up to the Major Jack Collins and the Event Group—comprised of the nation’s most brilliant minds in the fields of science, philosophy, and the military to find the truth behind the world’s greatest unsolved myths—to end the cycle of destruction. Meanwhile, the seas rise, the earth cracks, and entire cities crumble to dust as the evil plan mapped out thousands of years before begins to take shape

In McAuley’s follow-up to Child of the River, named a PW Best Book of 1998, Yama continues his quest for identity, still pursued by the implacable Prefect Corin of the Department of Indigenous Affairs, who would subvert Yama’s burgeoning psychic powers and put them to use in the war against the Heretics. Confluence is a planet-sized, needle-shaped artificial environment set millions of years in the future by the Preservers, humanity’s distant descendants, to orbit a star. Nearby is the Eye of the Preservers, a massive black hole within which the galaxy’s remaining humans have evidently hidden themselves, for reasons unknown. The inhabitants of Confluence, the 10,000 bloodlines, are, apparently without exception, animals, some of earthly origin and others not, all genetically engineered for human intelligence and form. Yama, an orphan of mysterious parentage, is a Builder, a member of a bloodline thought long extinct. His desire to uncover the mystery behind his birth is the motivating force for both his quest and the series. Throughout, he is opposed not just by Prefect Corin but by other intelligent beings, both organic and inorganic, who would bend him to their will

Petrs Dirgēla Ancilus ezers Baltijas triloģijas trešā grāmata "Ancilus ezers" ir mūsdienu lietuviešu rakstnieka Petra Dirģēlas Baltijas triloģijas pēdējā grāmata. Šeit noslēdzas "Slēptajā braslā" un abās "Joidijas jūrās" vadītais ceļojums Baltijas 15.—17. gadsimta vēsturē. Kiprijona Tvirbuta jaunākie dēli Jons un Petrs iet katrs savi ceļu pie patiesības, — vai vienas saknes, viena zeme, arī lielzemju karaļu un karalīšu samīdīta, viņus novedīs vienuviet. No lietuvju valodas tulkojis Talrids Rullis Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Petrs Dirģēla "Baltijas triloģijā" ir aicinājis starp senatnes apdvašotiem vārdiem un notikumiem sameklēt un sadzirdēt katram savu paša dvēseli, un interesanta ir Dirģēlas attieksme pret cilvēka dabu: vājo un stipro, lokano un šaudīgo, lūstošo un nelokāmo. Triloģija par cilvēka ceļu pie sevis, sevis atklāšanu, sevis izzināšanu, izdibināšanu: tā ir greznība, kas nevienā cilvēces vēstures posmā pilnībā nav piederējusi nevienam cilvēkam, tā ir greznība, ko nākas izcīnīt, atsakoties no daudz kā. Dirģēla ar pirkstu acī nevienam nebaksta, vier atgādina: cilvēks ir būtne ar brīvo gribu un griba ir salaužama, jā, bet vienīgi tad, ja cilvēks pats to pieļauj, ja ļaujas. Tāpēc brīvo gribu izvēlas nedaudzi, bet pārējie… Pārējie stāv malā. Golgātā. Rātslaukumā. Dzīvē. Bet par liem, kas nerimstas, sacer varoņteiksmas, evaņģēlijus, vienkārši stāstus. Par viņiem runā pie nometņu ugunskuriem. Par īstiem vīriešiem un stiprām sievietēm. Par tiem, kas mēs neesam, bet vēlētos būt. Varbūt rit. Pagaidām lai mūsu vietā sevi plosa kāds cits. Viņš kaut kur cīnās ar kaut ko. Ar sliktajiem sevi un mūsos. Ar vienaldzību un tieksmi garāmiet. Toties Dirģēla raksta. Joprojām. Un piebilst vienīgi: "Kamēr cilvēkam būs ienaidnieki, Dievs Tēvs nespēs būt kopā ar visiem." Kristīne Sadovska Redaktore Dace Sparāne Korektore Selga Freimane Mākslinieks Jānis F.sītis Gundegas Kārkliņas makets vāka mākslinieciskais noformējums, 2010 © SIA "Dienas Grāmata", 2010 Sirsnīga pateicība — Zigfrīdam Kalvaitim (Zviedrija), Almai Brazjūnienei, Dr. Pranei Dundulienei, Dr. Broņum Dundulim, Euģēnijai Stravinskienei, Jonam Šleķim, un Antanam Tīlam — visiem, kuri tā vai citādi man lietišķi un vērā liekami palīdzējuši, šo vēsturisko romānu rakstot. Autors