Что день грядущий нам готовит? Как отличить звон колокольчиков от первых звуков колокола, что «звонит по тебе»? Как отличить полет фантазии от предсказания? Антиутопия – жанр, получивший в последнее время невероятную популярность. И, вероятно, не в последнюю очередь благодаря тому, что самые мрачные предсказания фантастов имеют обыкновение исполняться. Иногда – почти буквально, как у Оруэлла в зловещем «1984», иногда – частично, как у Замятина, Брэдбери и Хаксли. Случайность? Совпадение? Но ведь когда-то людей Слова считали пророками, которым иногда, яркими вспышками, открывается будущее. Так может, стоит внимательнее вглядеться в грядущий день, нарисованный воображением современных...
In 2028, a mysterious group known as Meta begins sending agents back through time. Nobody knows who these time travellers are, or their purpose. Exactly 120 years earlier, murdered agent Saskia Brandt opens her eyes in a Geneva mortuary locker. Medical technology from 2028 has given her a few more hours of life. Completing her mission will take her to the north face of the Eiger—treacherous, unclimbed, enshadowed—and a reckoning with a Georgian outlaw, Soso: the man who killed her. * * * Red Star Falling is a thoughtful, character-based science fiction novella with a philosophical edge, written by the winner of the Red Adept Science Fiction Award.
It is 2023. Scientist David Proctor is running for his life. On his trail is Saskia Brandt, a detective with the European FIB. She has questions. Questions about a bomb that exploded back in 2003. But someone is hunting her too. The clues are in the shattered memories of her previous life. Déjà Vu takes the reader on a startling journey through a possible future, though digital minds, and through the consequences of the choices we make. It is the debut novel by Ian Hocking. Literary awards: Red Adept Indie Awards winner for Science Fiction (2011)
In 1947 a Santiago-bound plane crashes into the Andes minutes after confirming its landing time. In 2003 a passenger plane nosedives into the Bavarian National Forest during a routine flight. Although separated by more than 50 years, these tragedies are linked by seven letters: S, T, E, N, D, E, C. On board Flight DFU323 in 2003 is Saskia Brandt—a woman who holds the answers to the many puzzles of the two flights and who knows she must survive in order to prevent a catastrophic chain of events stretching well into the future. But Saskia is not the only one to know this. She is being followed and her life is in danger—inside and outside of the plane. Filled with...
Book three of the award-winning and bestselling Saskia Brandt series. Includes a preview of the next Saskia Brandt book, Looking Glass. First three books now available in The Saskia Brandt Series Omnibus Edition It is the night of September 5th, 1907, and the Moscow train is approaching St Petersburg. Traveling first class appears to be a young Russian princess and her fiancé. They are impostors. In the luggage carriage are the spoils of the Yerevan Square Expropriation, the greatest bank heist in history. The money is intended for Finland, and the hands of a man known to the Tsarist authorities as The Mountain Eagle—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Amazon Reviews ‘It is easy to see...