Лучшие книги Адриана Чайковски

В далёком будущем человеческая цивилизация достигла значительных технологических высот, но не обнаружила во вселенной братьев по разуму. Тогда учёные затеяли проект "Возвышение", в рамках которого планировалось терраформировать несколько планет, населить их обезьянами, заражёнными стимулирующим развитие интеллекта нановирусом, и таким образом создать ещё несколько островков разумной жизни. Однако в результате действий фанатиков из движения Non Ultra Natura эксперимент был сорван. Орбитальную станцию возле одной из будущих колыбелей жизни взорвал террорист, и единственной выжившей оказалась руководительница проекта — доктор Аврана Керн.…

Меня зовут Рекс. Я Хороший Пес. Рекс — пес, ростом под два метра, покрыт легкой броней и оснащен крупнокалиберным оружием, а его голос настроен так, чтобы резонанс вызывал панический страх у противника. С Драконом, Патокой и Роем он составляет Штурмовую стаю мультиформов. Их используют для военных и полицейских операций в Кампече, юго-восточном штате Мексики — в царстве беззакония и анархии. Рекс — продукт генетической инженерии, Биоформ, смертоносное оружие в грязной войне. У него повышен интеллект, так, чтобы понимать приказы, и установлены импланты обратной связи, вызывающие удовольствие при их исполнении. Все, что он хочет, — это быть Хорошим Псом. Это значит выполнять все приказы Хозяина, а Хозяин приказывает убивать врагов. Но кто эти враги? Что случится, если Хозяин станет военным преступником? Что, если Женевская конвенция запретит такое оружие? Останется ли у Рекса и других Биоформов право на существование? И что будет, если Рекс сорвется с поводка?..

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something…

В мире-кузнице Мород машины никогда не останавливаются, а работа никогда не заканчивается. Население тяжко трудится в шахтах и на заводах, чтобы защитить человечество от монстров из пустоты, пока Адептус Механикус во дворцах наслаждаются жизнью со всеми удобствами.
Генетор по имени Гаммат Трискеллиан жаждет покончить с застойным разложением. Узнав о том, что в тенях действует искажённая паства, которая считает техножрецов преградой на пути к истинному избавлению — давно предречённому единению с ангелами — он видит в этой конгрегации возможность свергнуть владык Морода и вернуть планету на путь прогресса.
Но порой единственная надежда на серьёзные изменения кроется лишь в пришествии чудовищ…

Загадочный, таинственный, красивый и опасный мир. Мир, в котором людям пришлось соединить свои гены с генами врагов — гигантских разумных насекомых… Прошли века и века. Враги стали друзьями и родичами. Образовались расы муравинов, мушинов, жуканов… Настали времена покоя и процветания. Но теперь начинается новая война. Воинственные люди-осы — народ могущественной, далекой империи — решают подчинить своей воле весь мир. Страна за страной падает к ногам завоевателей. Несть числа городам, над которыми развеваются черно-золотые осиные знамена. Кто остановит нашествие? Не армии и не полководцы, — а один-единственный человек…

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon…

The unmissable follow-up to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carry its precious human cargo to a potential new Eden. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then Liff, Holt’s granddaughter, hears whispers that the strangers in town aren’t from neighbouring farmland. That they possess unparalleled technology – and that they've arrived from another world. But not all questions are so easily…

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be…

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary new space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate,…

Планета Килн — это место, где тирания Мандат держит свою тюремную колонию, и для заключенных путешествие туда всегда является поездкой в один конец. Одним из таких заключенных является профессор Артон Дагдев, ксеноэколог и политический диссидент. Вскоре после прибытия он обнаруживает, что у планеты есть секрет. Люди — не первая разумная цивилизация, ступившая туда. Посреди ненасытной, хаотичной экосистемы находятся руины цивилизации, но кем были исчезнувшие строители и куда они делись? Если он сможет пережить как суровое правление коменданта лагеря, так и инопланетные ужасы окружающего его мира, у Артона появится шанс сделать открытие,…

Meet Charles, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.

Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master – therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services. Fleeing the household, he enters a wider world he never knew existed. Here an age-old human hierarchy is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to its wellbeing is struggling to find a purpose.

Charles must face new challenges, illogical tasks and a cast of irrational characters. He’s about to discover that sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. But can he help fix the world, or is it too badly broken?

A standalone, action-packed pseudo-Napoleonic historical fantasy adventure from the esteemed author of the Shadows of the Apt series. Denland and Lascanne have been allies for generations, but now the Denlanders have assassinated their king, overthrown the monarchy and marched on their northern neighbour. At the border, the war rages; Lascanne's brave redcoats against the revolutionaries of Denland. Emily Marshwic has watched the war take her brother-in-law and now her young brother. Then comes the call for more soldiers, to a land already drained of husbands, fathers and sons. Every household must give up one woman to the army and…

After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn’t understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers that the life he thought he knew is far stranger than he could even possibly imagine.

Can an unlikely saviour provide the answers to the questions he barely comprehends?

After eighty years of fragile peace, the Architects are back, wreaking havoc as they consume entire planets. In the past, Originator artefacts – vestiges of a long-vanished civilization – could save a world from annihilation. This time, the Architects have discovered a way to circumvent these protective relics. Suddenly, no planet is safe.

Facing impending extinction, the Human Colonies are in turmoil. While some believe a unified front is the only way to stop the Architects, others insist humanity should fight alone. And there are those who would seek to benefit from the fractured politics of war – even as the Architects loom ever closer.

Idris, who has spent decades running from the horrors of his past, finds himself thrust back onto the battlefront. As an Intermediary, he could be one of the few to turn the tide of war. With a handful of allies, he searches for a weapon that could push back the Architects and save the galaxy. But to do so, he must return to the nightmarish unspace, where his mind was broken and remade.

What Idris discovers there will change everything.

Firewalkers are brave. Firewalkers are resourceful. Firewalkers are expendable.

The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And as for power?

Well, someone has to repair the solar panels, down in the deserts below.

Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope.

The Firewalkers.

Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. In Jerez begins a…

Dragonfly Falling

The Lowlands' city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize.
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Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.

Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time.

I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could.

Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.

I’M LOST. I’M SCARED. AND THERE’S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE.

My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.

I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.

Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here.

Lucky me.

Lucky, lucky, lucky.

A new standalone novella by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.