En s'aventurant au-delà du système solaire, les Terriens ont établi le Contact avec une civilisation galactique vieille d'un milliard d'années, composée de milliers d'espèces intelligentes et basée sur le principe d'Élévation : les races aînées ont le devoir de guider les espèces plus primitives vers le stade de la pleine sapience. Mais les humains font figure d'exception à cette grande tradition. Sans aînés connus, ils prétendent avoir atteint l'intelligence eux-mêmes au cours de leur évolution, et ils ont déjà élevés à la conscience les dauphins et les chimpanzés. Résolus à faire leurs preuves auprès des Galactiques, les Terriens mènent le projet Sundiver, qui envoie des missions d'exploration à proximité de notre soleil. Leurs découvertes, notamment celle de l'existence des formes de vie inconnues dans les archives de la Bibliothèque galactique, risquent cependant de mettre le feu aux poudres. Sous l'égide de Jacob Demwa, ancien détective scientifique, l'équipe Sundiver se voit mêlée aux intrigues des puissantes races aînées, à l'affût du moindre prétexte pour remettre ces parvenus de la Terre à leur place... Premier volume du Cycle de l'Élévation, Jusqu'au coeur du soleil est un roman de science-fiction haletant, où suspense, rigueur scientifique et réflexion se côtoient. « Premier volet de la saga Élévation, Jusqu'au coeur du soleil est un space opera avec déjà de grandes qualités, tant sur le plan scénaristique que sur celui du rythme. Il est l'annonciateur d'une histoire passionnante. » Sci-fi Universe « David Brin marque une rupture dans l'histoire du space opera. Après lui, on ne peut plus regarder le genre du même oeil. » ActuSF
Alors que des armadas galactiques s'affrontent dans leur quête pour retrouver une ancienne flotte de vaisseaux interstellaires appartenant aux légendaires Progéniteurs, une race brutale des extraterrestres saisit le contrôle de la planète moribonde de Garth. Les colons terriens - des humains et leurs clients néochimpanzés élevés - doivent mener comme ils peuvent une résistance contre les occupants. L'existence même de la Terre et de la société issue de notre monde natal, ainsi que le sort de la civilisation toute entière des Cinq Galaxies, sont en jeu. Un récit de grande envergure, brillamment construit, et plein d'inventions et de tournures dramatiques, La Guerre de l'Élévation est une aventure inoubliable de la part d'un des maîtres contemporains de la science-fiction. « Un roman exhilarant qui arrive à tout englober dans ses pages : passant de l'action palpitante à des scènes finement écrites d'intimité intense entre les personnages. Impossible de ne pas rester accroché par Brin jusqu'au bout de son histoire. » Locus « Ce troisième tome partage tous les éléments qui rendait Marée stellaire si irrésistible. L'intrigue est en ébullition constante... et puis il y a les merveilles de la civilisation galactique créée par l'auteur, offrant tout le romanesque et l'imagination de la SF de la bonne vieille école. » Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine « David Brin marque une rupture dans l'histoire du space opera. Après lui, on ne peut plus regarder le genre du même oeil. » ActuSF « Les livres du Cycle de l'Élévation fournissent de la lecture compulsive presque sans égale dans la science-fiction. » The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Dans une Amérique sombre et violente issue d'une guerre dévastatrice, Gordon est un comédien errant, troquant des histoires contre nourriture et un toit provisoire. Jusqu'à cette froide nuit d'hiver où il endosse la veste d'un facteur depuis longtemps décédé. Car le vieil uniforme est un symbole qui fera renaître l'espoir chez ceux qui survivent encore dans quelques communautés isolées. Héros malgré lui, il sera obligé de les défendre contre des forcenés ennemis des valeurs civilisées.
« Un livre exaltant qui contient tout, de l'action palpitante à des moments doux d'intimité finement décrits. » Locus
« Ce roman va vous absorber jusqu'à la dernière page. » Chicago Tribune
He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.
But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, his life changes forever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next, the old, worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: it becomes a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed - and a symbol for how things might be again. And his story becomes one of a lie that turns into the most important kind of truth.
Against a background of global failure, THE POSTMAN is a powerful and affecting novel of the survival of the human spirit from the author of the award-winning Uplift novels.
Au cours d'une expérience scientifique, un trou noir artificiel s'échappe. Le savant responsable, Alex Lustig, sonde désespérément les entrailles de la Terre à la recherche de son bébé égaré, pour découvrir qu'un autre trou noir est déjà en train de ronger inexorablement la substance de notre planète. Tandis que les séismes et autres anomalies se multiplient, Lustig et son équipe vont essayer par tous les moyens de déloger cet intrus ravageur, mais aussi de savoir qui l'aurait mis là...
OUR CONTINUED EXISTENCE WAS NEVER A GIVEN.
Year after year, humanity has survived the main pitfalls awaiting us - natural disasters, nuclear war, rising seas. But when an alien artefact is found floating in Earth's orbit, it pushes our troubled world to the brink of chaos.
Is this a message in a bottle bringing peace and enlightenment from the stars? Or a warning, threatening to destroy what little stability mankind has achieved? The world is divided - holding its breath. Soon we will know the secret of existence.
Brilliant and gripping, David Brin's novel of the near future is the work of a modern master of science fiction.
Maïa est une var, humaine conçue naturellement sur la planète Stratos où l'essentiel de la population féminine est constituée de clones. En raison de leur naissance, Maïa et sa soeur jumelle Leie doivent quitter leur foyer et leurs demi-soeurs privilégiées pour sillonner les routes maritimes à la recherche de leur propre place au soleil. Mais au cours d'un voyage où elle doit affronter la faim et l'emprisonnement, la solitude et les batailles, Maïa rencontre un voyageur aux origines extraordinairement lointaines, dont la seule existence menace le monde parfaitement réglé de Stratos...
The second in the Uplift series and winner of the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel describes how a spaceship crew of dolphins and a genetically engineered human find an ancient fleet and cadaver. They must fight to carry their prize of knowledge and power back to Earth.
As for me, I am finished.' With these words, a frail, dying Hari Seldon completes his life's work. The old man has just recorded messages for the Time Vault of the First Foundation. Psychohistory's Seldon Plan is unleashed, propelled by the ponderous momentum of destiny. Younger hands will now take up the task.
For the first time in his life, Seldon is no longer watched, nurtured and guided by robots and he retires to a corner of the Imperial Park to garden. The Seldon plan has three possible outcomes. None of them fills him with joy but he is consoled by the thought that any of the three is better than the chaos that would have happened without him.
But the future still holds some surprises for Hari Seldon...
WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND NEBULA AWARDS
Under the caverns of Mercury, the Sundiver Mission prepares for a momentous voyage: a journey into the blazing inferno of the sun, to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life.
For in a universe where no species can reach sentience without being 'uplifted' by a patron race, only humanity - it seems - may have climbed to the stars unaided. This is a feat that puzzles and even angers some of the ancient, mighty Galactic Clans.
Now, in a saga that warps from Earth to the far-reaches of five galaxies, the greatest mystery of all may be explained . . .
This omnibus contains the first three novels in David Brin's classic and award-winning science fiction series, the Uplift Saga: SUNDIVER, STARTIDE RISING and THE UPLIFT WAR.
Long ago, the Founding Mothers left old Earth and the Phylum Worlds, seeking a hidden place to reforge human destiny. Through genetic wizardry, they have altered human sexual patterns. For most of the year, any child born on the planet Stratos is a clone of her mother, identical to all the sisters in her veritable clan. Only in summer are 'vars' conceived - old-fashioned, gene-mixed girls, and even sometimes boys - each one garishly, ignobly unique.
Maia, one lonely young var, grows up knowing she must summon all her skill to win a place in this world run by and for high-caste clanswomen, a world far gentler than those of the old Phylum . . . except for those rare seasons of change, when the planet seems to call its people forth to glory.
Rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope, GLORY SEASON is a saga of remarkable passion and drama, set in a faraway place and time but shining light upon issues vexing our own confused era.
The second book in David Brin's second Uplift trilogy is a magnificent addition to one of science fiction's most ambitious and compelling series. The six races had been living in exile on the planet Jijo for two thousand years before they were discovered by the Five Galaxies. Now they are alone again, but they know it is only a reprieve . . . Fleeing across space following an alien attack on Earth, the spaceship Streaker finds itself stranded near an uninhabited planet. Kaa is sent to the surface to investigate. All seems quiet. He doesn't yet know that the planet is Jijo.
In 1986, Halley's Comet returned to our heavens for the first time in over seventy-five years. Heart of the Comet is the story of Halley's next return in the middle of the twenty-first century, and of a daring mission to explore and colonize this ice-covered wanderer. It is the thrilling saga of a multinational group of exiles who discover the comet's astonishing secret - the secret that threatens their very survival.
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of short stories which confirms David Brin as one of the foremost writers of science fiction. It brings together stories like 'The Giving Plague' and 'Dr Pak's Preschool' which are among the most powerful and affecting of recent years.
Brin's is an eloquent, incisive voice, always dealing with profound ideas and important issues, taking the genre to new heights.
Circling the Sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history. A journey into the boiling inferno of the sun, to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life.
For in a universe in which no species can reach sentience without being 'uplifted' by a patron race, it seems that only mankind has reached for the stars unaided. And now, the greatest mystery of all may be explained...
Sundiver is the first book in David Brin's magnificent Uplift series.
As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants must battle their overlords of face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.
THE UPLIFT WAR is the third book in David Brin's magnificent Uplift series. Winner of the Hugo award when it was first published, it is a sweeping, brilliantly crafted story of adventure and wonder from one of the greatest writers of science fiction.
David Brin's first Uplift trilogy - SUNDIVER, STARTIDE RISING and THE UPLIFT WAR - stands as one of the most extraordinary science fiction sagas ever written. In 1995, BRIGHTNESS REEF, the first book in a second trilogy, marked a long-awaited return to the Uplift universe, followed by INFINITY'S SHORE.
Now, with HEAVEN'S REACH, David Brin concludes his epic tale of passion, imagination and adventure.
Al Morris is a private investigator. Actually, he's lots of private investigators. For he lives in a world in which every person, every day, can be in any number of places at the same time. It's the world of dittos. It is our world. Welcome to the future.
In a business where information is the currency, Al's dittos are loaded. And with a number of cases on the go at once, it is crucial that Al keeps track of what's going on. What he doesn't know is that he is about to be drawn into a plot that could throw this delicately balanced world into chaos. It seems that the technology has been developed for dittos to replicate themselves. It seems that real people may no longer be necessary. And, suddenly, it seems that mankind's dream of immortality could turn into a nightmare.
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A WORLD THREATENED BY ITS PAST, FIGHTING FOR ITS FUTURE
Planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecosystem protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. Yet, over centuries, refugees of six intelligent races have come, weaving a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony.
Then a strange starship lands on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse - criminals bent on destroying the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes? Can the exiles unite and find a way to save themselves . . . and a galaxy beyond?
From the multiple award-winning David Brin comes the complete Uplift Storm saga - containing BRIGHTNESS REEF, INFINITY'S SHORE and HEAVEN'S REACH.
On the distant planet of Jijo, six exiled races live side by side. Only ancient relics from their home planets, fragments of half-forgotten stories and the crumbling ruins of the mysterious and god-like Buyur remind the dispossessed of a more noble past, whe they were full citizens of the Five Galaxies. The races of Jijo, it seems, have been forgotten, along with whatever crimes thay committed. But for how long?
It is at the time of the Gathering, the council of the sages, when the spacecraft is first spotted. For some, it offers a new hope. For others, it heralds a time of reckoning.
Brightness Reef is the compelling story of a world threatened by its past and fighting for its future. With a gallery of extraordinary characters, and awealth of thought provoking ideas, it is a novel fuelled by the spirit of adventure and discovery. David Brin at his very best.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year.
But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.
Earth is the Hugo and Locus Award-nominated novel that, with countless accurate predictions, earned David Brin his reputation as a visionary futurologist.
