Risultati per "Ian McEwan" in Fantascienza

Nel maggio del 2119 Thomas Metcalfe, studioso di letteratura del periodo 1990-2030, si reca per l'ennesima volta alla biblioteca Bodleiana per consultarne gli archivi, a lui arcinoti, nel tentativo di scovare qualche scampolo di informazione inedita sull'oggetto dei suoi interessi, la fantomatica Corona per Vivien del grande poeta Francis Blundy, mai ritrovata.

Año 2119. Las cosas no van muy bien en el planeta. Hay amplias zonas inundadas como consecuencia de un catastrófico accidente nuclear. Y los habitantes de este futuro distópico miran con fascinación los albores del siglo XXI, a sus ojos una época de esplendor cultural. Así lo considera...

DALL’AUTORE DI L’ENERGIA DEL VUOTO, IL ROMANZO PROFETICO DI UNA POSSIBILE CATASTROFE Pianure screpolate, argini di fango secco, fiumi aridi, polvere giallastra, case e capannoni abbandonati: in un’Europa prossima ventura, devastata dai mutamenti climatici, decine di migliaia di «migranti...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers...

In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller. 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message. 2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those...

Noul roman al lui Ian McEwan, Coajă de nucă, lansat simultan în Marea Britanie și SUA la începutul lunii septembrie 2016, este o poveste clasică despre crimă și trădare, relatată din perspectiva unui narator cu o viziune și o voce unice în literatura ultimilor ani – un fetus a...

BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 The Atlantic’s Top 10 The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers Named a Best...

Charlie ist ein sympathischer Lebenskünstler Anfang 30. Miranda eine clevere Studentin, die mit einem dunklen Geheimnis leben muss. Sie verlieben sich, gerade als Charlie seinen "Adam" geliefert bekommt, einen der ersten lebensechten Androiden. In ihrer Liebesgeschichte gibt es also von Anfang einen Dritten: Adam. Kann eine Maschine denken, leiden, lieben? Adams Gefühle und seine moralischen Prinzipien bringen Charlie und Miranda in ungeahnte - und verhängnisvolle - Situationen.

Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it. . . . It changed how I see things and that's always, for me, a mark...

Brought to you by Penguin. What if you didn't have to live with your mistakes? Across the world, thousands of people are shocked to receive an email telling them that they once chose to have a traumatic memory removed. Now they are being given the chance to get that memory back. For Mei, William...

The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian...

Bloomsbury presents The Last Good Man by Thomas McMullan, read by Paul Tyreman. 'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I’ve read in recent memory' ROB DOYLE Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK’s brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of...

The downloadable audiobook edition of Jonathan's Coe satirical masterpiece, What a Carve Up! A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad...

Zadie Smith's deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion - it takes in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, and two beautiful children. Of course they do - they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect...