M.K. Stuyter S.J. Livres

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and introduces perhaps the most famous political slogan of science fiction: The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free. Born at the height of Nazi conquest, the Isher stories suggested that an oppressive government could never completely subjugate its own citizens if they were well armed. The audience appeal was immediate and has endured long beyond other stories of alien invasion, global conflict and post war nuclear angst.

Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Sur Gethen, la planète glacée que les premiers hommes ont baptisée Hiver, il n'y a ni hommes ni femmes, seulement des êtres humains. Des androgynes qui, dans certaines circonstances, adoptent les caractères de l'un ou l'autre sexe. Les sociétés nombreuses qui se partagent Gethen portent toutes la marque de cette indifférenciation sexuelle. L'Envoyé venu de la Terre, qui passe pour un monstre aux yeux des Géthéniens, parviendra-t-il à leur faire entendre le message de l'Ekumen ? Ce splendide roman a obtenu le prix Hugo et a consacré Ursula Le Guin comme un des plus grands talents de la science-fiction.

In a society populated by mass-marketed psychedelics and eugenics, where everyone was struggling for life, Donald Hogan was a mild-mannered student, a dilettante intellectual - at least that's what everybody was supposed to think. But he was really a spy.

A haunting story of power and love--a tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.

Taalstrijd op een verre planeet.

Contains three novels in Dutch translation: The Languages of Pao / Big Planet / The Dragon Masters. In "De Talen van Pao," Beran Panasper, the crown prince of Pao, is kidnapped by the enigmatic Paravos, a dominion on the world of Breeknes. While studying there for several years, he and his captors analyze Pao and its singular language. Upon his eventual escape, Beran discovers that Pao has drastically changed, now home to three new languages, reflecting his own transformation during captivity. "Grote Planeet" is set 500 years later, where the vast planet has become populated by numerous groups of Earthlings. A commission is sent from Earth to assess the threat posed by Bajarnum of Beaujolais, a local ruler expanding his territory. However, the commission crashes 40,000 miles from the only civilized area, the Earth enclave. This leads to a perilous journey through unknown lands, where the group faces terrifying monsters and bizarre inhabitants. In "De Drakenruiters," every few centuries, the malevolent star Coralyne appears in the sky of Aerlith, bringing with it the chilling Grondvormen that abduct humans. A few captured Grondvormen are transformed by the residents into a formidable army of dragons, including fearsome Hellevegen and deadly Schrijdende Moordenaars. When the Grondvormen return, they confront their monstrous, twisted descendants—the dragons. This work is a recipient of the Hugo Award.