The Fifteens of Stone House have reached Attainment: the day a girlie may Beseech for the privilege of serving as a Perfected womanidol in the Orchid Nursery. When vivacious, irreverent Pearl goes missing, pious Mica hopes fervently that her friend has been chosen for Perfection and has not, as she fears, absconded from the State. Mica feels bound by love and duty to seek Pearl – to save her from punishment if she is caught by the Ecumen or, wor ...
Наоми Алдерман «Сила» – яркий роман-антиутопия о женской силе. Что бы произошло с миром, если бы женщины вдруг стали физически сильнее мужчин? Теперь мужчины являются слабым полом. И все меняется: представления о гендере, силе, слабости, правах, обязанностях и приличиях, структура власти и геополитические расклады. Эти перемены вместе со всем миром проживают проповедница новой религии, дочь лондонского бандита, нигерийский стрингер и американс ...
Катарина лишилась всего: собственного тела и долгожданной свободы. Девушка оказалась заперта в ловушке подсознания, сбежать из которой невозможно. Столкнувшись с темной частью своей личности, Катарина понимает, что нынешняя владелица ее тела способна уничтожить этот мир. Она должна предупредить все человечество: лекарство, обещавшее подарить людям бессмертие, таит в себе смертельную опасность. Однако у нее осталось несколько часов, после чего ли ...
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897,it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.The novel is the first-person narrative of b ...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. One of the most renowned works of science fiction, The Time Machine reflects on the adventures of The Time Traveller-a man who constructs a machine which allows him to explore what the future has to offer. As he travels to as far as 802,701 AD, The Time Traveller encounters a world dominated by two types of creatures- beautiful and ...
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in – and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused, but when things become stranger and sinister father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion b ...
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, a ...
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on hi ...
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