Офелия сорок лет прожила в Колонии 3245.12. Здесь она похоронила мужа и вырастила сына, здесь у нее обжитое хозяйство и огород с помидорами. Поэтому, когда колонистам приходит приказ оставить обжитую планету, Офелия решает – она никуда не поедет. Ей надоели нравоучения невестки и упреки сына. Она хочет выращивать помидоры, ходить в летящих платьях и хотя бы на старости лет жить так, как ей хочется. И действительно, когда Офелия остается одна на целой планете, у нее начинается новая жизнь – свободная и счастливая. Однако, когда кто-то убивает всю команду корабля-разведчика, приземлившегося на ее планете, Офелия понимает, что, кажется, население этой планеты состоит не только из...

Finalist for the Hugo Award • “Ofelia—tough, kind, wise and unwise, fond of food, tired of foolish people—is one of the most probable heroines science fiction has ever known.”—Ursula K. Le Guin For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days—until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to...

Захватывающее исследование сознания человека с аутизмом, который сталкивается со сложными и глубокими вопросами о сути человечности отчуждением в мире-утопии. Лауреат премии «Небьюла» 2004 г. Финалист премии Артура Ч. Кларка 2003 г. Номинация на премию «Локус» 2004 г. Номинация на премию Геффена 2005 г. (Израиль). Номинация на Большую премию Воображения 2007 г. (Франция). Номинация на приз Курда Лассвица 2008 г. (Германия). Недалекое будущее. Медицина продвинулась настолько, что врачи могут устранять любые генетические дефекты и наследственные болезни сразу при рождении человека. Но, к сожалению, есть целое поколение людей, которые появились до возникновения этой терапии. Общество учит их...

These people will save the Galaxy... LUNZIE - who has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn't so good after all... FORDELITON - who has been sent to investigate the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and is dying of a mysterious slow poison... DUPAYNIL - who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far, has been exiled to Seti space... AYGAR - who is out to prove he has brains as well as heavyworlder brawn... Then there's Sassinak, ordered to report to FedCentral for the trial of the mutineer Tanegli. She'd been told to disarm her ship when it enters restricted space; she'd been told her crew can't have liberty or leave;...

Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. Old enough to be used, young enough to be broken - or so they thought. But they reckoned without the girl’s will, forged into a steely resolve to avenge herself on the pirates who had killed her parents and friends. When the chance comes to escape, Sassinak grabs it, thanks to the help of a captured Fleet crewman. Returned to the Federation of Sentient Planets, she initiates her revenge by joining Fleet as a raw recruit, surprising everyone by her rapid rise to senior rank. And then her vengeance begins in earnest. Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon have woven a story worthy of Robert A. Heinlein in its tough- mindedness, reminiscent of...

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the Nebula Award–winning author of Cold Welcome, admiral Kylara Vatta is back—with a vengeance. Ky beats sabotage, betrayal, and the unforgiving elements to lead a ragtag group of crash survivors to safety on a remote arctic island. And she cheats death after uncovering secrets someone is hell-bent on protecting. But the worst is far from over when Ky discovers the headquarters of a vast conspiracy against her family and the heart of the planet’s government itself. With their base of operations breached, the plotters have no choice but to gamble everything on an audacious throw of the dice. Even still, the odds are stacked against Ky. When...

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero’s welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a...

Over the past two decades, few authors have garnered the critical acclaim and fan following of Elizabeth Moon, Nebula Award-winning author of The Speed of Dark, The Deed of Paksenarrion, and Remnant Population. Moon Flights, the definitive Elizabeth Moon short story collection, represents the highlights of an impressive career. Gathering together fifteen tales of fantasy, alternative history, and science fiction, Moon Flights features an original story, “Say Cheese,” set in the Vatta’s War cosmology, and an all-new introduction by Anne McCaffrey, legendary creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series. Ranging from humorous high fantasy tales of “The Ladies’ Aid & Armor Society” to...

Thanks to Paks’s courage and sacrifice, the long-vanished heir to the half-elven kingdom of Lyonya has been revealed as Kieri Phelan, a formidable mercenary captain who earned a title and enemies in the neighboring kingdom of Tsaia. Now, as Kieri ascends a throne he never sought, he must come to terms with his own half-elven heritage while protecting his new kingdom from his old enemies and those he has not yet discovered. Meanwhile, in Tsaia, Prince Mikeli prepares for his own coronation. But when an assassination attempt nearly succeeds, Mikeli suddenly faces the threat of a coup. Acting swiftly, Mikeli strikes at the powerful family behind the attack: the Verrakaien, magelords possessing...

Paksenarrion could never have fulfilled her destiny had it not been for one who came before. Gird, the peasant, the armsman, the Liberator who taught his people that they could fight—and win—against oppression. This is his story, the first of two prequels to the “Deed of Paksenarrion” trilogy.