John Meaney Ordre des livres

"A brilliant, inventive writer" - The Times presents a dazzling collection of stories from award-winning author John Meaney, featuring "The Whisper Of Disks." Explore Ada Lovelace's connection to humanity's cosmic future, a grieving widower's dreams of a parallel world, and a man's covert anti-Nazi efforts in a genetically engineered 1940s. This anthology showcases nine tales of sparkling imagination. PRAISE FOR JOHN MEANEY: “A spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again.” - Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author. The Guardian praises the character of Cumberland, highlighting his portrayal of anger and grief as a masterclass in characterization. Total Sci-Fi notes the thrilling evolution of a missing persons inquiry into a coup against a fascist state, set in a recognizable yet violent extrapolated Britain. The Eloquent Page describes a gripping blend of action and science fiction that hooks readers instantly. BiblioBuffet appreciates the relentless and gripping narrative, balancing personal and political elements. The Times calls "Absorption" the best hard science fiction of the year, noting its excitement and intriguing characters. Terror-Tree.co.uk commends the phenomenal world-building and strong female characters in "Transmission." Starburst Magazine highlights the epic ambitions of "Resonance," emphasizing its credible research. Lastly, The Times describes "Bone Song" as a smart and spooky read tha

The dark matter in the universe is alive and is seeking to pervert human history to its own ends. Its influence has reached back into the dark ages, to the centre of the 3rd Reich and 600 years into the future.

Return to the universe of Ragnarok - an epic space opera that pulls together ancient history, the dark events of the twentieth century and the far future. A perfect book for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds.

The universe is dark. And it is alive. Hard SF Space Opera to rival Peter F. Hamilton.

Willkommen in Tristopolis, einer Stadt, die ihre Energie aus den Knochen Verstorbener schöpft. Hier beginnt die Geschichte von Polizei-Inspektor Donal Riordan, der eine aufsehenerregende Verschwörung entdeckt, die die Stadt erschüttert.

In this darkly luminous thriller, John Meaney blends gritty futuristic noir with gothic fantasy to create a stunningly seductive world of death and desire. Here an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses as he hunts a perverse killer through a city of the dead. There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.

The setting is Nulapeiron, a many levelled world of exotic underground cities where the lower classes are literally kept below by a meritocracy of intellectual Lords. Change is forbidden, perhaps impossible: the barely human "Oracles", disconnected from time, provide snapshots from an unalterable, deterministic future. Chaos and uncertainty are dirty words and "I'll be heisenberged" a foul oath. Young hero Tom--brought up in a deep-down bazaar--loses his mother to an Oracle's whim, his father to a cruelly self-fulfilling prediction, and his arm to the Lords' cruel justice. He's primed with hatred and inspired by a biographical dat crystal given to him by an outlawed Pilot who's navigated the now forbidden fract complexities of mu-space. Tom has enough mathematical genius to storm the pyramid of Nulapeiron's high society and perhaps gain power to take revenge- he can also solve the paradox of how to kill an Oracle whose death date is fixe known, and far off in time. Change would become possible ... Meaney's sustained inventiveness continues to dazzle. Paradox may be a little heavy on martial-arts action for some tastes, but the roller-coaster plot is full o unexpected twists, revelations, biotechnological oddities, changes of course a unlikely alliances. Crackling tension continues to the very end.

Earth-based biologist Yoshiko travels to the paradise world of Fulgor to see her estranged son, hoping to bridge the gap between them. However Tetsuo is in trouble. He is unwittingly caught in a conspiracy of tech-trafficking and corruption, and in the sinister machinations of the ruling elite.